Boston Marathon bombings.......

[Wolfsong]

Originally Posted by Kobi

In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself. The forced lockdown of much of the Boston area, police riding armored vehicles through the streets, and door-to-door searches without warrants were all reminiscent of a military coup or martial law, Paul added.

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” according to Paul.

Furthermore, this response did not result in the capture of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Paul charged. He was discovered hiding in a boat by a private citizen, who called police.

“And he was identified not by government surveillance cameras, but by private citizens who willingly shared their photographs with the police,” Paul wrote on Lew Rockwell’s site.

Originally Posted by Kobi

“The way in which Americans now related to their government, the way in which they get nationalistic pride is through the assertion of this massive military or police force, and very few other things produce that kind of pride,” Greenwald said. “I think [this] shows a lot about our value systems and what the government is failing to do. And that’s the way in which this culture becomes coarsened.”

A couple of things about this bother me. This article sounds reasonable at first, and then throws in what fodder that will paint Paul a crackpot seems almost to be an effort to get people to write off what's being said. The problem is that on some of these points he is right. We can't be so eager to resolve something that we are willing to throw away the very essence of what makes us free people.

Who's heartstrings weren't tugged by the cop delivering a couple of gallons of milk to family that was "sheltering in place"? Who wasn't happy that these guys were caught really quickly? Nobody....and nobody should have been (unhappy that is). The thing is that I don't think people really realize that not only did they throw the 4th amendment right out the window in the process, but people applauded them doing so. People are saying "Well so what something needed to be done in the greater interest of the public." WTF really?