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Good ol' Morris Dees and his brethren know what's good for you...
Ron Paul is absolutely right to criticize the horrific abuse of American civil liberties in the pursuit of men who killed fewer people than died sitting on toilets the day of the Boston Marathon:
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Paul's criticism is strong, but it could be stronger. The fact is that President Obama should be ordering a federal investigation of the violations of the Constitution by the city and state police, as well as any federal agencies involved. It is depressing to think that we might have had a President Paul responding to this unprecedented attack on the American people by the police forces of the State if only the Republican Party had not insisted that Mitt Romney was "electable".
Moreover, as Karl Denninger points out, not only were the Boston police not heroic, they were both incompetent and dishonest about their incompetency:
The cops unconstitutionally locked down a 20-block area. This was not a case of "hot pursuit" where a valid exception exists to the 4th Amendment -- they had no idea where the bad guy was, other than the general area where they saw him last. That does not give license for what was done in Watertown.
But then to add to that they were both incompetent in that they didn't search a street inside the perimeter, they lied about the fact that the boat was inside the perimeter and in addition the cops fired without having acquired a target and without having taken fire themselves when they shot up the boat.
The defendant had no weapon; he clearly did not shoot at the cops first.
In addition remember that the cops claimed the boat was outside of the perimeter. That, it turns out, was a lie.
The fact that the police are always full of praise for themselves after an incident such as the Boston Marathon doesn't mean that they actually merit the praise. In most cases, a closer look will reveal that they are attempting to rewrite history and conceal their customary bumbling.
Ron Paul did not go far enough
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/05/ron-paul-did-not-go-far-enough.htmlIt is depressing to think that we might have had a President Paul responding to this unprecedented attack on the American people by the police forces of the State if only the Republican Party had not insisted that Mitt Romney was "electable".