Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
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Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses
Shocking Footage: Americans Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
April 22, 2013
Shocking footage has emerged from Friday’s lockdown in Boston, where police, federal agents, national guard troops and SWAT teams enforced door to door searches of everyone’s home within twenty blocks as the entire city was placed under orders to stay off the streets.
The video, shot by a resident from their own house across the street, shows police barking orders at men and women as they order them at gunpoint to identify themselves, put their hands on their heads, and get out of their own home. They are then ordered to run down the street to be further frisked by police as scores of armed militarized cops look on.
The scenes look like something out of a disaster movie, with the backdrop of suburban America juxtaposed with what is essentially martial law playing out in full daylight.
The story floated in the mainstream media that the door to door searches were conducted with the voluntary consent of the residents of Watertown is clearly false. 9000+ Police locked down an entire city and went in with full force, with armored vehicles and combat gear, all to search for an injured 19 year old kid who turned out to be cowering in someone’s back yard.
While armies of police roamed around people’s homes and private property, Public transportation was shut down, businesses were forced to close, and a no-fly zone was enacted over Boston in an unprecedented show of force.
At this point, as military helicopters buzzed over neighborhoods, the Fourth Amendment had ceased to exist in Boston, which quickly resembled a war zone.
The compliant mainstream media reported on the activity without alarm or question. Katy Waldman of Slate wrote an article claiming that under dire circumstances police can suspend 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable searches:
In exigent circumstances, or emergency situations, police can conduct warrantless searches to protect public safety. This exception to the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause requirement normally addresses situations of “hot pursuit,” in which an escaping suspect is tracked to a private home. But it might also apply to the events unfolding in Boston if further harm or injury might be supposed to occur in the time it takes to secure a warrant.This activity, once again, sets a shocking precedent. Police and military are training in these circumstances every single day of the year. They are fully acclimatized to the process, as if it is completely normal. They do not hesitate in carrying out such orders, which are now being implemented whenever the authorities deem a situation to be an emergency.
This is what fully fledged martial law in America looks like.
Professor: We Used 'Too Much Force' Capturing Boston Bombers
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University of New York Professor Ruth O'Brien complains in an op-ed
that "too much force" had been used against Boston Marathon
bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by the police.
She writes:
She writes:
Now we
have captured the two terrorists from Chechnya who come from the
troubled region that is Muslim, but we cannot understand their motives,
not yet. And Obama encourages us to refrain.
This
said, the mortuary pictures of the older brother of the two are
extremely disturbing, raising questions as to whether the Boston Police
Department captured him with too much force. I understand the
explanation offered by Katharine Q. Seelye, William H. Rashbaum, and
Michael Cooper. Yet, it does not ring true. A picture is worth a
thousand words that will keep our ears ringing as we recoil from this
photo. Images have a way of searing themselves into our memory in a way
that can’t be undone. We have an emotional memory, not just a rational
one that is exemplified by words.
While
terrorism is about causing fear — again an emotion — we do have to
account for our conduct in these extreme times when adrenaline is
running high.
At my
home, to at least offset this, we turn off all media. I couldn’t
believe my sons’ explanation when they got home about one brother
running over the other one. So I found a place to read about this, and I
recoiled after seeing the picture. Still, we all know that terrorism,
like crime, “leads if it bleeds” with the established media. The
established media fixates on the domestic-violence or crime-of-passion
aspect of terrorism, and it, too, inculcates more fear in all of us.
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