Boston Tried a Police State and it Failed

georgedonnelly.com

27 points·stuff4ben··5 comments

It’s absolutely fascinating to me that only when they lifted the lockdown did they find the surviving Tsarnaev brother. That’s when the owner of the boat Tsarnaev was hiding in came out of his house and noticed something amiss.

That's the big point here. It was only after the lockdown ended that someone found him.

During that day, I thought about if I lived in Boston what would the consequence have been to disallow the police from entering my home without a warrant. Would they have arrested me? On what charge? Would they have assumed I was hiding something and focused their entire force on me at the expense of possibly letting the real bad guy get away?

How come a police state is so attractive at the beginning?

I would like to believe that I would have the courage to challenge this curfew if it comes to my town.

I would like to believe that this was accepted this time because the curfew was unexpected. I hope that next time, the curfew is resisted.

I've noticed that I've tolerated abuse in my life thinking that it would only be temporary condition. Sadly, abusers don't seem to reflect on their transgressions and seem to escalate them.

I like the font of your article. But Alex Jones's pen is still bigger :)

"Alex Jones's pen is still bigger"

That's not a good thing, even though I find him very entertaining.

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