Somebody call Crayola. I have an idea for a new crayon color … “Blur”. The U.S. government and MSM are increasingly coloring everything in shades of “Blur”.
At the risk of being accused of wearing a tin foil hat…
First, not reading a person’s Miranda rights in these situations is a huge judgement call, usually with a lot of contemplating forethought and assumed hindsight behind it. After all, it is highly possible and probable these two brothers were not acting alone and are part of something bigger. However, this warning makes a whole hell of a lot of sense, and deserving of some ‘contemplating forethought and assumed hindsight‘ as well, given the current administration’s motto about letting a crisis go to waste:
TAMPA, April 20, 2013 – 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is in custody. Assuming that Tsarnaev is indeed guilty of these crimes, a very real threat to public safety has been taken off the streets. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the Tsarnaev brothers have taken the last vestiges of a free society in America down with them.
The Bill of Rights was already on life support before this tragedy. Before the dust settled after 9/11, the 4th Amendment had been nullified by the Patriot Act. The 5th and 6th Amendments were similarly abolished with the Military Commission Act of 2006 and the 2012 NDAA resolution, which contained a clause allowing the president to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens on American soil without due process of law.
Americans had already grown accustomed to having their persons and papers searched at the airport without probable cause and without a warrant supported by oath or affirmation. After a brief, politically-motivated backlash against the Bush Administration, Americans similarly resigned themselves to the government tapping their phones, reading their e-mails and generally spying on them wherever they went. Things were already very, very bad.
They just got a lot worse.
Not only did the militarized domestic law enforcement complex put the City of Boston under martial law, but nobody seems to have found it out of the ordinary, much less outrageous. Yes, a few journalists like libertarian Anthony Gregory raised a finger. But, for the most part, nobody seemed to mind that the entire city was under military siege, complete with paramilitary units in full battle gear, battlefield ordinance and tanks. Tanks!
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… the awful power of the state is not supposed to be set loose based upon feelings. It is supposed to be restrained by reason. God help us if we forget.
Well now … this was something even our own Humberto made note of just the other day. This much show of force and a full city shutdown for two suspects, and then one injured suspect after the older brother was dead the fire-fight with officials? Despite our ‘feelings’ and ‘want’ for immediate payback on these terrorists we have to be careful about what we are willing to accept from this government’s actions/reactions. After all, our Constitutional rights are set up as THE “even playing field” for a reason. Don’t forget our current fight with this same government over new and more gun control laws based on “moral outrage” feelings/want on the heels of Sandy Hook. And don’t forget the filibuster regarding possible future drone attacks on American citizens on our own soil. Like it or not, while enemy combatants, these two guys were/are “American citizens”. Are we in the midst of blurry lines here right now (and nobody has blurred that line between ‘enemy combatant’ and ‘criminal’ more than the last 2 democrat administrations)?
Innocent little Cuban boy seeking political asylum with his family in America.
Filmmaker using his First Amendment rights fingered more than once by Obama administration officials (and the MSM) as he and his obscure video being the blame for the 9/11/12 terror attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi.