Radley Balko Asks The Right Questions About The Police Response To The Boston Bombing
The second one also applies to the rights-violating TSA. Balko in the WaPo:
Were the heavy-handed door-to-door searches and lockdown in Watertown justified by the belief that Tsarnaev was holed up in that particular neighborhood?...Might a better approach be to merely accept that exercising the freedoms we cherish requires accepting a certain amount of risk?
I made a similar point in my op-ed about the TSA -- that we are in greater danger by removing our civil liberties in the name of "security" (and the fantasy that we can be "secure").
This is what happens to a public convinced that "someone else" is responsible for their personal security.
At the same time, the State doesn't want anyone to recognize that the 2nd Amendment is a fine source of tools for the public to defend itself.
Radwaste at April 24, 2014 7:08 AM
couple with the fact that INTEL on these bozos was all over the place, but never acted on... AND THIS SHOULDNA HAPPENED...
but, as I often see in ANY management circle... you dun get kudos and celebration when you make a problem go away quietly... you only get celebration when you have an emergency to manage. That you are cowing the populace is just a bonus.
I'm thinking two letters for the whole thing CandF "c is for cluster..."
That says nothing for how evil and life altering the crimes these guys committed are.
But, like the TSA, it's handy to have a lion running through the streets, real or imagined... so you can keep power. THAT fact doesn't change, regardless who is in the WH.
SwissArmyD at April 24, 2014 10:03 AM
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