Boston: Crowd Chants "USA!" After Tsarnaev Captured

[Brett85]

I don't see a problem like this. They're cheering that the suspected terrorist was caught, not that Boston imposed martial law or anything like that.

 

[Brett85]

Anybody catch the tribute at the start of the Red Sox game this afternoon?

Yeah. Ortiz-"This is our f*cking city."

Live on national TV.

 

[Czolgosz]

Americans are a subset of Human. Humans are mostly collective pack animals.

 

[mac_hine]

"So we locked down an entire city, brought in a military force to search for a single man, suspended the Bill of Rights, and now, the city's largest newspaper calls for more surveillance cameras. If you're a terrorist who wants to scare an American city into willingly handing over the values that make free societies free, Boston is your template." ~Radley Balko
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...an-bombs/WzCUILoS2N5ralmclr3QRN/comments.html

Via Anthony Gregory:

One doesn't have to be any sort of radical to be appalled that thousands of police, working with federal troops and agents, would "lockdown" an entire city—shutting down public transit, closing virtually all businesses, intimidating anyone from leaving their home, and going door to door with SWAT teams in pursuit of one suspect. The power of the police to "lockdown" a city is an authoritarian, borderline totalitarian power. A "lockdown" is prison terminology for forcing all prisoners into their cells. They did not do this to pursue the DC sniper, or to go after the Kennedy assassin, and I fear the precedent. It is eerie that this happened in an American city, and it should be eerie to you, no matter where you fall on the spectrum. You can tell me that most people in Boston were happy to go along with it, but that's not really the point, either. If two criminals can bring an entire city to its knees like this with the help of the state, then terrorism truly is a winning strategy.

If America suffered a bombing like the Boston Marathon atrocity every week, America would feel like a very different place, although the homicide rate would only be about one percent higher. I acknowledge the maiming was on a mass scale, but this kind of attack has to be taken in perspective in terms of how much of a risk it poses to the average American, because we have to consider what response the people would tolerate in the event of more frequent or far worse attacks.

If the people of the United States will cheer seeing a whole city shut down, even for just a day, in the event of a horrific attack that nevertheless had 1/1000th the fatalities and about two percent of the casualties of 9/11, what would Americans support in light of another 9/11? What about a dirty bomb going off in a major city? The question has nothing to do with what government wants to do, or whether police statism is a goal or simply a consequence. What will the *people* want and expect the government to do if tens of thousands were chaotically killed and injured in a terrible terror attack, or if many small attacks hit the country? I fear they would welcome the abolition of liberty altogether, given their reaction to last night. That, of course, is altogether the wrong response. If we cannot look at the police reaction last night very critically, there is really no hope for even moderate protection of our civil liberties today.

 

[green73]

That reminds me. There's a funny subreddit with nearly 80K subscribers:

'MURICA! FUCK YEAH!
www.reddit.com/r/MURICA

 

[mac_hine]

That reminds me. There's a funny subreddit with nearly 80K subscribers:

'MURICA! FUCK YEAH!
www.reddit.com/r/MURICA

+rep for introducing me to my new favorite subreddit.

 

[green73]

+rep for introducing me to my new favorite subreddit.

This is how cool they are

 

[No Free Beer]

You guys are so fucking stupid.

I'm all but done with this site.

 

[No Free Beer]

Yeah. Ortiz-"This is our f*cking city."

Live on national TV.

I fucking loved it.

 

[green73]

You guys are so fucking stupid.

I'm all but done with this site.

Wow. I don't know if we can ever fill the void that you will leave.

 

[Dr.3D]

Wow. I don't know if we can ever fill the void that you will leave.

It's not like there will be more beer.

 

[green73]

It's not like there will be more beer.

But we'd no longer be treated to new avatars of that singer he's obsessed with.

 

[Dr.3D]

But we'd no longer be treated to new avatars of that singer he's obsessed with.

Oh, I thought she was one of the Team America Cheerleaders.

 

[No Free Beer]

But we'd no longer be treated to new avatars of that singer he's obsessed with.

Are you sure that my pictures are not some big government cover-up or conspiracy?

"MK ULTRA BROOOOO"

 

[No Free Beer]

Oh, I thought she was one of the Team America Cheerleaders.

Sexist.

 

[Dr.3D]

Sexist.

At your service, sir.

 

[No Free Beer]

At your service, sir.

HAHA!

 

[Mani]

Glenn Beck tweeted this:



I would have added "suspected" in front of the word terrorist, but I agree. Only in Russia or China are rights not given to criminals. American citizens should and must be read their miranda rights.

Unlike Dorner and others....Even in China terrorists thug attackers are given trials, instead of onsite execution. There are lots of examples of Chinese arresting attackers who've killed Chinese police and military so they have their day in court.

I think it's pretty RARE that a suspect in America who OFFS a police officer actually makes it to a trial....




http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20120918/106624.shtml

 

[jtstellar]

what's the thing with stinky teen males and their inability to keep their shirts on each and every occasion they deem special for some cerebrally deprived reason

 

[MRK]

what's the thing with stinky teen males and their inability to keep their shirts on each and every occasion they deem special for some cerebrally deprived reason

They're animals bro.