The risk was having more bombs go off and kill more people. So being asked to stay inside just makes sense to me. If it was a co-ordinated and well planned attack the entire city could have been crippled for much longer if one or two more bombs had gone off.
The searching of homes I thought was done on the specific block where they thought the boy was. Again what would have been the alternative? On 25 April 2013 21:15, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Every second of every day since the inception of this country, > someone has uttered > the phrase 'America as we know it is gone'." > > Does that mean they are wrong? > > > "the great irony of our amazing free republic is that at every turn many > think > she's being destroyed......yet she always gets better." > > By what standard? By the standard of our poor being obese, having cable > TV, AC, free lunch, and $200 per pair athletic shows? Or by the standards > of civil liberties, transparent government, a larger disparity between the > rich and poor, corporations exerting more control than citizens over the > government, an onerous tax code, and so on? > > > "20 years from now, America will be stronger and better than she is > today...." > > Again, by what standard? > > > ". . . and there will be a lot of people saying 'man, this country used to > be great!'" > > Of course there will be. Again, whose to say they are wrong. > > > As I watched the news last Friday, I was disturbed greatly by the manhunt > in Boston. The citizens of Boston voluntarily enforced martial law on > themselves while the police, military, and various three letter agencies > searched for one man whose face was so well known he couldn't have moved > two feet in public without someone yelling. One 19 year old boy. The > citizens of Boston allowed government agencies to search their homes > without a warrant, to order them around like school children, and then > cheered about it at the end of the night. I thought Boston was full of > tough people who were willing to scrap at the drop of a hat, yet they shut > themselves up like a bunch of pansies. This is Boston, where the > revolution started. Irony at it's best. > > I'd say America has turned a corner. > > > J > > - > > One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal > income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial > reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, > socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal > income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & > more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from > an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system. - W. > H. Chamberlin > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363142 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
