After watching some roundup coverage of the latest terrorist ball game, I have some thoughts.
First off, as has been mentioned many times, welcome to the militarization of law enforcement in America. One more lost civil liberty.
But my other thoughts are more decidedly pointed.
In all the wall to wall coverage, a few topics were ignored, shunted aside like a Gosnell ‘patient’, or given short shrift.
The issue of terrorism here in the US is a matter of immigration control. But we have a president who cares not one whit for anything resembling border control and immigration law enforcement within the borders of the Country. Hell, he has an illegal alien auntie living quite openly in Boston.
The older Chechen sailed through a ‘background check’ after an unnamed foreign government gave us a heads up. The FBI investigated, using the appropriate tools of the day combined with sensitive PC questioning yet Nada. He’s a good Chechen. So now is it time yet to profile? Because, like, you know, there are some people of a certain religion who want to kill us. But progressivism is not anything if not suicide on a national scale. Border control? How racist of us.
The other thing that blew me away Saturdsy morning, hearing it for the first time, was how Boston and some surrounding areas were completely shut down for over 5 days by TWO, count ‘em 2, guys. When NYC was hit, a major building complex was turned into rubble, infrastructure was damaged, including transportation. Closed for two and a half days, longer in some parts of the City. With nanny statism comes the new belief that we are all victims to be protected by the Government, including isolating you for your own good. A city the size of Boston goes into lockdown for two guys? Every child gets a trophy and every policeman gets a medal (for doing the bloody job they volunteered to be paid to do). I have never heard more effusive praise for a ‘local’ police action. It really is conditioning. It becomes the norm and most certainly not out of the ordinary. In fact, it’s to be expected in certain situations, because government force is good. And no, you do not need to protect yourself from the necessary force of good government.
I don’t know what I’m trying to say except that the coverage of this atrocity (enough of that ‘tragedy’ word already; it was a deliberate act, not an earthquake or something) gives rise to questions currently unasked or even discussed by our Brave New World media. A failed border policy. A failed immigration policy. A failed visa policy. All designed to put the citizenry at risk so big daddy government can save the day, creating their own crisis too good to waste. Make no mistake, I firmly believe this event will be used to further constrict our 2nd Amendment rights, along with other civil liberties. Locking down the City of Boston for days because of a manhunt for two guys? Cripes, what will happen when the dozens of Hisb’Allah cells already in this country spring into some good ol’ fashioned terror action? We shut down the country? This is what happens to our liberties when we fail to contain jihadis over there. When they’re over here, a president like Owebama will use the resulting mayhem to expand government at our liberty’s expense. I can feel it coming, especially with all the effusive praise being thrown at the various law enforcement agencies (who surprisingly all dress alike in situations such as this). I spit further than I trust this Administration, well, our whole government (the Pubbies ain’t doin’ anything to help in that negative viewpoint).
This attack was not some opening salvo, far from it. But this attack sheds light on how our present government responds to such terror crises in this country, with a very heavy hand; somewhere down the line will be presidential citations for those involved in this action, with an appropriate photo-op ceremony on the White House Lawn propagating propaganda celebrating big government force. There are questions to be asked and lessons to be learned from the Boston Marathon Bombing, but banning pressure cookers is not one of them. Neither is continuing to wonder about any nebulous motive the two might have had for the bombing. PC talk is getting us killed.
