Posted on 07/26/2014 9:47:48 AM PDT by whatexit
Pressure Cookers? Confiscate all of them nationwide.
Establish a Senate investigative committee immediately if not sooner. /sarc
Have any of you people making fun of this situation ever served? Do you have any idea of the homemade devices that can be made and kill you??
Now I agree that recently the police in places have become very aggressive and overbearing...But this situation so closely resembling what happened in Boston fully warranted the police questioning these guys...
They did NOT go in with armored vehicles and combat-ready SWAT teams...They questioned these guys...
Considering the circumstances and history, I think they did the correct thing by questioning them...
Thanks!!
Freegards
no problem
Common household items in a posh, upscale New York hotel???
C’mon...use a little common sense....
I don't go with the police state BS at all.
Just common since works.
I shall raise you one.
Why not ask boy zero point blank why he wishes to do this country more harm than all terrorism in the past combined?
Do you understand the word “vigilance”????
Considering what happened in Boston and the aftermath, no, I don’t think it was an overreaction...If they’d called in a SWAT team and armored car and snipers, yes...If they’d beat them and hauled them off, yes...But questioning them and the, you HAVE to admit, unusual circumstances around this, I don’t see anything wrong with what occurred....
“...More than a dozen cops responded...”
Considering this is New York City, I’d say this was about right... 2-3 cops to do the questioning and check things out...9-10 to secure the area and hold back the crowd that more than likely gathered hoping to see some action....
You ever see (on TV) the crowds that gather when someone threatens to jump off a building in NYC??? They are shouting...egging the on....Incredible!!!!!
In most instances I prefer “first preventors” ahead of “first responders”...
I had an assistant district attorney tell me “It’s legal for us to kill you”, and yes the police tried it.
Trust me that’s something that sticks with you.
Start down the road that having a pressure cooker can get you questioned by police and what’s next?
You bought nails you might put them in a bomb you need to be questioned.
You bought some pipe, you can make a bomb, you need to be questioned.
Police have a job to do but questioning someone simply because they have a pressure cooker isn’t it.
I have a pressure cooker I sure don’t want to have the police come and question me.
I drive around with a 55 gal drum of diesel in my truck sometimes.
I don’t want to be stopped and question by police every time I do it because I might be another Tim McVeigh.
“In any case, to be so offended after the cops filled them in on what they were supposedly ignorant of doesn’t seem to be the reaction of a reasonable person.”
Yes it’s reasonable.
This is the United States, that crap isn’t supposed to happen here.
Things like having to explain to the govt/police why you have a pressure cooker happens in other countries, not here.
Would it be reasonable for the police to come to you house and question you maybe even search your house simply because you bought a pressure cooker?
Of course not.
As you say there is nothing to indicate they had done anything wrong other than having pressure cookers.
Truth be told, there is no such thing as trading freedom for security.
Give up your freedom you give up your security.
Freedom and security means the govt is scared of the citizens, citizens aren’t scared of their govt.
The govt has to justify what they are doing and that means they have to create new threats and new solutions for the threats.
Perfect example. Over 20,000 gun laws the last I heard, and that’s still not enough.
My wife (MA in Home Economics) said you never cook rice in a pressure cooker. Rice foams up. And if a grain riding the foam gets lodged in the Rocker port, BOOM!!.
My pressure cooker has a small rubber pressure relief stopper that will blow before anything bad happens. Your wife is missing out on some great rice.
Yes, and why TWO pressure cookers for a little rice? If they were really using it for cooking, wouldn’t ONE be enough?
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