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Well said and I copied it over w/o the F bomb which might get it deleted.

An armed and dangerous islamist terrorist who had committed an act of mass murder a few days earlier, and had just murdered a cop named Sean Collier, engaged in a gun battle with cops on the streets in which 200 rounds were fired, carjacked someone and then robbed the person of his money, and was now on the loose in a densely settled metropolitan neighborhood rather fits the bill of an emergency situation, does it not?

I was about a half mile away, as the crow flies, from where the first bomb went off. I saw paramilitary-style cops in full black combat gear and M4s all over my city the entire week, including, ironically enough, in front of the statue of Samuel Adams in front of Faneuil Hall. I saw big black humvees that looked like armored personnel carriers rumbling through the streets all week. Three DHS special forces vehicles are still parked outside of Boston Garden on Causeway Street.

I get it.

But enough is enough. This wasn’t the King’s Troops busting down doors to root out radicals, subversives, or undesirables. This was cops trying to keep their people safe, and this was people working with the cops to keep themselves safe AND nail the bastard who did this to our city and to our people.

Let’s keep our eyes on the prize and keep our powder dry for when we truly need it. Now is not the time, and when this kind of crap gets posted all over Free Republic, and people on our side buy into it, we walk right into the stereotype, and look exactly like the paranoid freaks the left likes to paint us out to be.