Anyone notice all the para-military forces in Boston?

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29. Very grateful for their excellent training and restraint. They got the bastard alive, right?

I have not read about an epidemic of doors blasted off their hinges, have you? Any citizens of Watertown or Boston complaining about the inconvenience -- nay, terror -- caused by police actions?

Did the cops spray crowds with rubber bullets, explode tear gas, use pain rays? For that you have to go to peaceful protests against Bush and the GOP. But not this time.

Law enforcement officers did not shoot anyone at random, did not break down anyone's doors, instead knocked and asked, did not go ramming in. People were told to shelter in place, so that cops did not have to try to babysit everyone at once.

This was not martial law. ("Martial" -- as in "military." Not "Marshall" whoever the hell the ignorami think he is.) It was civilian police at their best, calling on other agencies in dire need.

Have you seen the photo of the guy in the wheelchair -- the one with his long leg-bone sticking out -- just the bone, no foot, no flesh. That is what the Brothers Tsernaev did. And then they went on the lam, shot a campus cop full of holes for no apparent reason, started a firefight in a peaceful neighborhood, and on and on.

For you and all the others here wringing their hands about the police -- what would you have done if you were in charge and could have your every wish? Do tell.