Boston manhunt a victory for cooperation - not tyranny

[LuckyTheDog]

Well, that was predictable.

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt the paranoid wing of the nation’s chattering class will not stop freaking out about how it was handled.

During the pursuit of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, most of us saw intense local, state and federal police work to capture a bad guy before he could slip away. Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, however, saw something very different.

“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,” Paul wrote in an article posted April 29 at LewRockwell.com. “This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”

More here: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2013/04/30/boston-2/

[Cha]

1. Thanks Lucky! I know a few people in Boston

who are gonna love this article!

It was a "Victory for Cooperation" and no matter how much whine is poured and poutraged.. it's not going to change the reality.

[former9thward]

2. The police did not do all that well.

Afterall the police lifted the shut down shortly before the brother was captured. They had not been able to find him. He was found because a guy had to go outside to smoke because his wife didn't want him smoking in the house. He found the brother in his back yard and called the police.

[Cha]

3. We're reading this from someone who lived in Boston..The Police and FBI did an excellent job

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in real time.

What we don’t need is to turn ourselves inside out worrying about sinister plots and the motives of our law-enforcement professionals. We’re Americans. This is a grown-up country. We can do better than that.

Edit: Clarification

[LuckyTheDog]

4. I wonder if The Globe would re-print that....

Just a thought.

[Cha]

5. An excellent thought it turns out.. I think. My DU friend in Boston

is at work now but, I've already PMed her your OP so she can check it out.

Maybe she can send it into the Globe? It's a Boston Strong kind a thing!

[OneGrassRoot]

9. I asked that question in another post...

It seems most of these articles and comments are from people who do not live in Boston.

I haven't yet seen any Bostonians saying the actions that day were those of a police state. And Bostonians are NOT a cowering, fearful group of people...they're not sheep.

[sheshe2]

6. Excellent!

But it wasn’t. There was no martial law. There were no guns pointed at citizens with the goal of keeping them in line. What we saw at work in Boston wasn’t tyranny. It was the Yankee community spirit at work.

People in New England have strong connections to their home towns.

From the people of Boston, thank you! It was 102 hours, from the bombs going off to the capture! Damn fine work!

I have no clue who to send it to at the Boston Globe, maybe as a letter to the editor?

Thank you, Lucky.

[Cha]

7. So glad you read this, she.. I just came to give

it a kick and here you are!

[LuckyTheDog]

8. Send the link to the op-ed editor

See if they will use it on the op-ed page.