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by Symbol
4805 days ago
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This. Exactly. As a resident of a neighboring town not technically on "lockdown", residents nevertheless acted that way. Streets were empty. Businesses closed. It was very very quiet.
This was obviously done by choice, not mandate. Yes, there was some fear driving this, as a police officer a few miles away was killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (cop killings do not occur often in the Boston-area suburbs). However, a large motivator was solidarity with other towns on lockdown. We really wanted to give the police every chance they could to catch this guy. The value judgement was made by private business owners and employers to support that effort. |
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http://georgedonnelly.com/libertarian/boston-police-state-fa...
"If you allow an angsty teenager with a pressure cooker to frighten you into abandoning your daily routine and cowering in your home as if it were a prison, then you desperately need to re-evaluate your posture towards life. Reclaim your self-respect, Boston."
"When a dozen paramilitary cops with fully automatic battle rifles backed by a guy on a humvee turret and snipers come to my house, the words ‘voluntary’ and ‘cooperation’ have no place. I would be a fool to resist. They have guns to my head and the heads of anyone with me. It’s now too late to resist. I don’t blame anyone for cooperating. I blame them for cheering their oppressors."
"Boston was turned into a police state for a day. It was an experiment. It failed miserably. The governments in operation there rallied all of the military might at their disposal with a near-complete suspension of liberty and they failed to find the man they were looking for – until they lifted their siege."
"The bottom line is that the man on the street, the civilian, the regular joe, is a more effective agent for public safety than any hopped-up government employee with body armor, night vision, full-auto rifles and flash-bangs. Just like with Flight 93, the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber, it was the regular folks who played the key role in neutralizing a suspected terrorist – not the cops or the TSA. That should be a sobering fact for any law enforcement cheerleader."
Is this house search voluntary? What about the people pulled out by heavily armed soldiers at gun point? What was their crime? Can you tell me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LrbsUVSVl8
Did this guy have a right to film soldiers on the street outside his own home? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5vfyFyptQ
Is that what you think living in a free country looks like? Or is it what living in a totalitarian police state looks like?