This is what the "voluntary" house-to-house searches looked like in Watertown

[ghuns]

One guy in Boston was quoted, "They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy." This is the mentality we're dealing with.

Yeah, but in his defense, he did look kinda like this...

 

[johnny45]

It is amazing to see violations of liberty rationalized away....though hardly surprising.

 

[public servant]

Yeah, but in his defense, he did look kinda like this...

What do you mean? I don't get it.

 

[IndyDave1776]

It is amazing to see violations of liberty rationalized away....though hardly surprising.

I would find it unsurprising that it happens, but I have been very surprised by some of the people doing the rationalizing on INGO and otherwise. You would think they would realize that if the .gov can cancel the Constitution in the name of pursuing one fugitive, they could do so under most any circumstances in which circumstances were less than absolutely perfect.

 

[blamecharles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOvHuojEB4

None of this is cool. These are police officers. They look more like models for MW4. This will not end well at some point. This is not what this country was founded on.



Sad that the UK Daily Mail is a better source of info than our own "news" orgs.

Boston bomber search: Moment SWAT teams ordered innocent neighbors out of their houses at GUNPOINT | Mail Online

 

[Dirtebiker]

A resident of Watertown, MA, photographs a man in combat fatigues pointing a rifle at him from the turret of his military Humvee. Everyone in the town was a potential threat that day, as police & military performed house-to-house searches for terrorists.

When guns are pointed at your family, how "voluntary" is it?

That is probably the scariest picture I've seen!
Imagine what the photographer COULD have looked like to the guy with the gun!?

 

[terrehautian]

So say one was armed with multiply guns (side arms on both hips and a modern sporting rifle across his chest pointing down), how would the police reacted? Nothing was illegal about that. Before some say there was a terrorist killer on the loose, to me, that does not equal losing rights as a citizen who has done nothing. Frankly, if I knew there was a killer loose, I would be armed to the teeth as much as I could.