Police State

Facial recognition software failed to identify Boston bombers.

Surviving suspect charged in federal court. I doubt this guy will live to make it to trial.

"Neither Tsarnaev brother was licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, Cambridge, Massachusetts, authorities said on Sunday."

So much for gun laws preventing criminals from getting guns.

Suspects appear driven by faith.

The Boston mayor says the suspects acted alone.

Evidence the bombers did not act alone.

"Nearly unnoticed in the dramatic denouement of Dzokhar’s capture: the apprehension of three people, including Dzokhar’s alleged girlfriend, in nearby New Bedford. The three were later released, but authorities reappeared at their apartment complex on Saturday and apparently detained two of the same men, who are reportedly from Kazakhstan: a van with consular license plates had earlier turned up in front of the complex, and a young woman was seen entering the van in a hurry. The Tsarnaev brothers weren’t lone nuts: they had help."
"And the Daily Mail reports:
“Russia reportedly asked the FBI to investigate one of the alleged Boston bombers just six months ago after he was seen meeting an Islamic militant six times – but the agency never responded, it has emerged.”
In addition, Tamerlan reportedly came to the attention of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston, probably on account of his altercation, three months ago, with the head of a local mosque, who threw him out for expressing radical views."
"The lessons to be drawn from all this? First and foremost, the idea that we can invade other countries – indeed, that we must invade countries like Afghanistan – so as to prevent terrorists from acquiring a “safe haven” is absolute nonsense. We tried that, and it didn’t work. Boston is the proof.
The second lesson is that American officialdom is comprised of hysterics, whose overreaction must have the terrorists chortling in their Chechen lair. A nineteen year old punk succeeded in shutting down a major American city: whoever organized the Boston atrocity can surely count that as a victory."

It was a great victory for the terrorists.

"On the other hand, civil libertarians are going to have a harder time of it: Sen. Graham’s invocation of the New Tyranny’s slogan – “the Homeland is the battlefield” – is a creepy reminder that we are on the brink of establishing a police state in this country."

That is creepy. Bush the Younger used to say we fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here, but that's wrong. We fight them over here because we attacked them over there. Now the warmongers and their propagandists are saying the US is a battlefield. If that's true, their policy has failed and we should end the wars. They can't have it both ways.

Now we know what US totalitarianism looks like.

"As Charles W. Johnson presented the situation on Facebook, lockdown is "from the vocabulary of prison wardens, referring to a condition in which inmates are temporarily completely restricted in their movements and confined to their cells, in order to allow prison guards to conduct searches or contain and control what the inmates are doing." He then asks these two questions: "If the police have the power to put a city 'on lockdown,' then what does that make the city? And what does it make the innocent people living in it?" Well, it would make the city a prisons and the residents would be inmates, naturally."
"The United States has, rather quickly, devolved into a totalitarian state that in terms of its militarized law enforcement is not much different at home than it is abroad."

I've long contended the US government is conquering us. Boston proves they won. The terrorists won. We lost. Our way of life is gone. We have no rights. We bow down and kiss the president's ring in thanks for the privileges he allows us.

"This raises another question related to the lockdown. Presumably it was in order to make it easier for the police/military to locate the suspect, Mr. Tsarnaev. But given how much effort the government put into the search, and how little exertion was necessary to actually locate him, one wonders how soon this all could have been over had a million pairs of eyes not been shuttered inside their homes for the better part of the day. We can't know for sure, but it does seem to be a reasonable question, given the facts."

Exactly.

"To be sure, this will become a standard procedure likely to play out in cities and towns across America, albeit on a smaller scale and with less reporting. A murder suspect will be on the loose and a city's police department will invoke the "Boston Rule" or some such phrase, and they'll lock down a part of town, storm into people's homes, pull them into the streets. It's not so much a question of when, but how often and under what circumstances."

Exactly. This trains Americans to be submissive and it trains law enforcement to enter homes without warrants and force people out. Martial law in Boston will be model they use to go door to door and collect guns.

The older brother's wife claimed he came home and stayed with her in the days after the attack. I guess the police never thought of checking there. How is it possible that this guy who was so frequently on the police and FBI radar wasn't identified immediately? Incompetence or cover-up?

More questions about whether this was another FBI entrapment scheme gone wrong.

"In answer to my questions above, it turns out even the establishment New York Times reports that "Of the 22 most frightening plans for attacks since 9/11 on American soil, 14 were developed in sting operations." In other words, two-thirds of the planned terrorist attacks against us were hatched by our own government!"

One of the media's greatest propagandists is questioning government.

Interview with the competitor and coach who first mentioned the bomb sniffing dog drill at the marathon.

The Israeli government is another winner in this attack.

TSA magically made small knives dangerous again. If you look at this diagram, no knife worth was allowed anyway.

Blaming America's laundry list of assassinations on one lone nut makes no sense. This was obviously republished to apply to the Boston bombers.