Has anyone heard any specific instances about this?
Every act of terrorism on US soil leads to further erosion of the 1st, (assembly); 2nd, and 4th Amendments.
Sometimes rapidly but invetiably and inexorably gradually.
Many of the people in the "lock-down" area microwaved popcorn and sat on their couches watching the TV as thousands of law enforcement and para-military types streamed through their neighborhoods with police cruisers a-flashing with sirens blaring.
You would think that the populace would be upset about being told to "shelter in place" while some homicidal muslim was apparently running through their neighborhood. But no, they docilely sat on their couches as they did about three months ago when the governor once again told everybody to "shelter in place" as a snowstorm moved through our region. That was also on a Friday. So the typical reaction of citizens here was "another 3-day weekend...yayyy!"
The only good part of Friday was how it took only 30 minutes for a regular citizen to find the culprit once they were told they were free to move about once again.
30,000 cops and a hundred times more police cruisers than were used in the Blues Brothers movie and all for naught. Some dude in a flannel shirt wanders into his backyard to check on his boat and finds the kid just like that.
Didn’t Karl vote for Bammy?
Excellent rant. Spot on.
This is the first rant by Denninger that I concur with 100%. Right on dude, all the fatazz fed Barney Fifes could not manage to find their own AH’s. Funny how the pussified Bostonians laid down and let the Fatazz Barneys walk all over them.
With respects to Mr. Deninnger, what could the police have done differently to catch Joker? In addition to the Boston Marathon bombings, he had been involved in the murder of an on duty police officer, and the injuring of another on duty police officer, and was in a shootout including the use of explosives while being pursed by other officers. He was hiding, he was armed, and he may have had explosives. What - TACTICALLY - could the police have done differently once they knew he was on foot in the Watertown neighborhood? If he wasn’t quickly found by dogs and helicopters, how could they KNOW he was not inside someone’s house with the occupants tied up and gagged, waiting until the police leave so he could take their car, unless they go door to door contacting the residents?
In a manhunt with a bleeding perp, I saw nary a “tracker dog” all day....but they might have been on a long break at the doughnut shop or union break.
I was listening to a scanner throughout. The “final firefight” involved shooting blanks, not live rounds, at the boat, so no holes. They used “gas”, unspecified, but no flash-bang. The previous firefight was on the streets and did involve live rounds and homemade bombs being tossed around.
They did not know that the kid was too wounded to even move much, let alone shoot back.
Do you have specific cases where firearms were taken?
Yeah, I wonder how that would go for the first one to try that.
Just a peripheral detail, but the police and FBI knew, based on the boat owner's report, that the boat had 20 gallons of diesel fuel in the 40 gallon tank - VERY different from gasoline in terms of flammability and explosive risk.
“We have learned many things over the last week, and none of them are good.
We have learned that an entire major city is full of pussies who will hide in the closet rather than sling a rifle or holster a pistol and go about their business, refusing to be cowed by a couple of murderous jackasses.
We have learned that the FBI will and does lie to the public and only stops lying when called on it in the media.
Just as before 9/11 when the FBI knew damn well that the towelheads were buying simulator time with thousands of dollars in cash and not wanting to know how to land and did nothing with the information to interdict the jackasses who would use that knowledge to murder 3,000 people this time around they knew there was a problem as well and tried to lie about it.
This in turn means that if they come talk to you you must assume they're going to lie as well — and maybe lie about what you tell them. This makes it downright stupid for you to help law enforcement in any way, and that makes us all far less safe if for no other reason than repeatedly-demonstrated and very-official gross negligence.
Never mind that the younger brother appears to have a nice online history too which was also ignored and he was actually out partying in the local area after the bombing.
We have learned that the older of these two clowns had a domestic violence history which made him eligible to be deported and we did nothing to revoke his green card, thereby effectively giving him license to commit his murders.
We naturalized the younger brother despite knowing the above. We have government agents sticking their hands down the crotch of 80 year old dying Grandmas with leukemia in airports, fondling her adult diaper instead of interdicting jackasses like this.
We have learned that two young men willing to die for their alleged belief that 27 virgins await them in paradise (who I suspect are both male and literal gorillas, if they exist at all) can shut down all economic activity among a city of millions and strand thousands more, which means that fewer than a hundred said jackasses could literally destroy our economy. If you think I'm divulging some “state secret” by mentioning this you're not very bright either; we televised this fact all day, on every channel, throughout Friday.
We learned that thousands of cops, despite being all geared-up and full of cum, can't find one jackass that the people can and do locate in a half hour with no special training and no fancy hardware. We also learned that in a real assault the so-called “good guys” will wear digital camo in an urban environment that sticks out like a sore thumb against everything in the area. FAIL!
And finally we learned that The Constitution is used toilet paper and a fetid relic of our former (and now-shelved in favor of American Idol) imagination, and that the founders who fought just miles from where this took place are looking down on us in shame from heaven —
we no longer merit the nation they left us.
Wake up America — if our nation can be said to still exist.”
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We have learned many things over the last week, and none of them are good.
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We have learned that the FBI will and does lie to the public and only stops lying when called on it in the media. Just as before 9/11 when the FBI knew damn well that the towelheads were buying simulator time with thousands of dollars in cash and not wanting to know how to land and did nothing with the information to interdict the jackasses who would use that knowledge to murder 3,000 people this time around they knew there was a problem as well and tried to lie about it.
This in turn means that if they come talk to you, you must assume they're going to lie as well -- and maybe lie about what you tell them. This makes it downright stupid for you to help law enforcement in any way, and that makes us all far less safe if for no other reason than repeatedly-demonstrated and very-official gross negligence.
Check out article.
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The sheeple there are easily herded because they are already of the mentality that they are more than willing to give up certain "rights" in exchange for being made to FEEL safer.
I believe I just described the core reason as to WHY it went down the way it did.
They shouldn’t have seized firearms from people. They should have deputized those firearms owners with proficiency in those weapons to help search for the bomb-throwing little brat.
You’ve said what alot of us are thinking, but still too mad to put into words.
Thank you.