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[donnay]

I'm curious, with regards to how they conducted the manhunt, what would you guys see as a proper way to handle this situation?

Sheriff and his deputized posses to bring them in alive and stand a trial--not militarized police and military using tax payers money to be judge, jury and executioner.

 

[parocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U86d8LE0mc

Aunt of Boston Bombers Doesn't Believe FBI Story

 

[The Northbreather]

I'm curious, with regards to how they conducted the manhunt, what would you guys see as a proper way to handle this situation?

Yeah, we shoulda gave each cop their own tank escorted by a pack of trained k-9s.

Then we'd really be safe.

 

[CPUd]

Sheriff and his deputized posses to bring them in alive and stand a trial--not militarized police and military using tax payers money to be judge, jury and executioner.

I think the only way to get people to go for that is to frame it in a way that they don't see it as regressing. Perhaps find a way to incorporate technology into the process. Some of the neighborhoods were putting out pictures of these guys out in the street before the press even knew what was going on.

 

[donnay]

I am sure there will be a ticker tape parade in the future.

 

[The Northbreather]

I'm curious, with regards to how they conducted the manhunt, what would you guys see as a proper way to handle this situation?

Seriously though I'm more disappointed in the populous.

The man will always try to dominate a situation with power but the people shouldn't cave into fear so easily.

I wish that the coverage would have been dominated with interviews of citizens taking responsibility for their own safety.

I would have loved to see a couple spots on some Bostonians griping their guns and saying "I'd like to see that guy try to take my car"

far more effective on so many levels

 

[RockEnds]

I'm curious, with regards to how they conducted the manhunt, what would you guys see as a proper way to handle this situation?

Issue an APB. Maybe make the tv beep and broadcast one of those garbled civil alert announcements. Then because the people have the right to bear arms, the police state doesn't have to immediately pop into full-scale war mode. They can patrol a little more seriously and wait for some guy to check the boat in his backyard.

 

[donnay]

I think the only way to get people to go for that is to frame it in a way that they don't see it as regressing. Perhaps find a way to incorporate technology into the process. Some of the neighborhoods were putting out pictures of these guys out in the street before the press even knew what was going on.

First we need to educate the people on the Constitution. No where in the Constitution does it recognize/acknowledge a police force. As a matter of fact our founders warned us of standing armies. This is what the police force is, a standing army--to impose tyranny.

That same technology can and has been used for bad as well as good.

 

[CPUd]

Seriously though I'm more disappointed in the populous.

The man will always try to dominate a situation with power but the people shouldn't cave into fear so easily.

I wish that the coverage would have been dominated with interviews of citizens taking responsibility for their own safety.

I would have loved to see a couple spots on some Bostonians griping their guns and saying "I'd like to see that guy try to take my car"

far more effective on so many levels

That's what it would be like in TN


It's not an easy solution though, to get back to the way things "should" be. For every person who stands on their porch with a shotgun, there are 2 or 3 who say the police need to handle that.

 

[jtstellar]

Customers came in today talking about how bad traffic was today. I mentioned that it could be worse, we could be in Boston all under lockdown. She says 'well hey, I'd get an extra day off! *laugh laugh laugh*

yessss i think my stereotype just went up.. like it isn't already high

 

[Henry Rogue]

I'm curious, with regards to how they conducted the manhunt, what would you guys see as a proper way to handle this situation?

In the future we could stop fighting wars and stop manipulating other countries. that would do more to make this country safer than any police state ever will.

 

[parocks]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...t=a.10150675321009389.394766.747974388&type=1

hey bro where'd your backpack go?

(actually, the "contractor" story has pix of this guy with this backpack after the bomb.)

 

[The Northbreather]

Safest place in the world?
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LOCKDOWN
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[No Free Beer]

Well, if you show up in an urban battle tank with 50 soldiers, most people aren't going to say no.

That's the best you could do?

 

[No Free Beer]

In the future we could stop fighting wars and stop manipulating other countries. that would do more to make this country safer than any police state ever will.

Dude, wtf are you talking about?

 

[SeanTX]

Issue an APB. Maybe make the tv beep and broadcast one of those garbled civil alert announcements. Then because the people have the right to bear arms, the police state doesn't have to immediately pop into full-scale war mode. They can patrol a little more seriously and wait for some guy to check the boat in his backyard.

And lets not forget that the guy who found the suspect in his boat didn't go outside until his masters allowed him to be released from "lockdown." Had he not been "allowed" to go outside (on his own damned property mind you) he likely would have remained cowering inside his house -- and the suspect might have been able to escape.

I also don't understand why the police are getting all the credit when it was a mundane/citizen that finally found him. In any place other than MA the mundane could have either detained the guy at gunpoint , or shot him -- no cops needed except for hauling him off to jail, or the morgue.

 

[dusman]

Sheriff and his deputized posses to bring them in alive and stand a trial--not militarized police and military using tax payers money to be judge, jury and executioner.

Yep, I definately agree. Sheriff can deputize anyone too. Its about the most powerful position we elect IMO. Someone mentioned Letter of Marque and Reprisal, but really the Sheriff's posse is probably to the same effect, so it's really not necessary and perhaps too strong for the circumstance. It is a good balance with the 2nd Amendment too as the citizenry really can handle itself in a lot of cases if it chooses to.

I think the only way to get people to go for that is to frame it in a way that they don't see it as regressing. Perhaps find a way to incorporate technology into the process. Some of the neighborhoods were putting out pictures of these guys out in the street before the press even knew what was going on.

Good idea, actually. Sheriff dept. could do lots of things with the technology that's here now. Mobile is quite a powerful tool and I wouldn't be surprised to see digital access in mobile app form to emergency care in general coming. Call 911? I'm notifying my county dept, whose closest deputy to my location will be alarmed. Stuff like that.

 

[Dogsoldier]

"The military did not issue edicts requiring people to do anything."

Thats because the people were cooperating.

Imagine what would have happened if they didn't.

 

[Mani]

Interesting about the
Ockdown as some people were forced from their homes.....the police showed up and said GET OUT, leave now. The family had to pick up their infant and walk out of their home immediately. They were not when they could come back, how long, where to go....just get out, go that way...

It appears some homes were forced to leave with no information.....

 

[DGambler]

I am sure there will be a ticker tape parade in the future.

Just saw a pack of wild animals on the tube celebrating and chanting "Boston, Boston, Boston"