If any teabagger yelps (and, yes, I've already caught this on facebook) about lax borders, kindly remind them that the Tsarnaevs were admitted to the U.S. in 2002 as POLITICAL refugees...not unlike Cubans...and then became naturalized American citizens in 2007. Now what does Barack Obama have to do with any of this...especially since he wasn't even in the federal government in 2002. Just watch the head spin...
As usual, our myopic media only views the world in "how it affects the U.S."...the media "American Exceptionalism" that pays little heed to conflicts in the rest of the world unless an American is involved. While Tsarnaev is of Chechen origin, and I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that he and his brother had sympathies for their native land, I'll wait to see if that's offered up for a defense.
Another irony of this whole situation was those with guns...the MIT security guard in specific...ended up as an unfortunate victim while the guy who had his Mercedes SUV hijacked and was held hostage...he was unarmed and was let go unharmed. Wanna bet if he had been packing and dared to pull the gun to "protect" himself we'd have one more funeral to deal with.
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