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In reply to the discussion: Boston bombing reveals a new American maturity toward insecurity [View all]sheshe2
(96,875 posts)52. So you were only here a few years for school?
Or a life long born and raised in Mass.
And why will you not accept the true definition of a Shelter in Place request, voluntary I might add, to a police state.
You say you saw the pictures from those "pipe bombs" as you term them. You say we surrendered to our fear, then you surely missed a lot of pictures and videos. The people turning and running back to the Blasts to help save lives! I am not referring to the first responders, the professionals. I am talking about everyday people that rushed to help save lives.
You do not have a clue, leveymg. I am sorry but you do not.
You say
that's all the more reason to grieve for the surrender to fear and acceptance of a sort of police state that is becoming permanent in America.
I say that is incorrect. I say let the people of Boston grieve for our dead and wounded. Something many of you are not willing to let us do. There has not been one post on Boston's Sorrow that has not been jumped upon and the people of Boston being called vile names. Not one.
IMHO Boston is not the one that surrendered to fear and acceptance, you have.
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They knew exactly who they were looking for. The lockdown didn't happen until that was known.
leveymg
May 2013
#4
Every major terrorist incident of the past decade has been blowback. Here's the new idea: end the
leveymg
May 2013
#49
I have no problem with locking down Watertown for a few hours. I do have a problem with an entire
leveymg
May 2013
#10
I'm sorry Nadin. When you have an entire city with armed troops in the street and people told to
leveymg
May 2013
#12
You might want to continue use the wrong term, that does not mean you're correct
nadinbrzezinski
May 2013
#13
States of seige or exception (suspension of constitutional rights) can go on for years. As in Chile
leveymg
May 2013
#17
Well I don't live in Watertown and we were told to stay in. It involved the city and
virgogal
May 2013
#51
Those who did as law enforcement suggested and stayed inside were very mature...
AmericanLoudspeaker
May 2013
#15
Yes, because obedience to authority has always worked out so well historically...
TampaAnimusVortex
May 2013
#24
Maturity? I seriously cannot believe someone actually wrote that garbage. nt
Demo_Chris
May 2013
#56