I feel as bad as anyone for those injured and killed in the Boston Marathon bombing. I wish it had never happened and I wish there was some way to prevent similar things from happening in the future. But there isn’t.
The overall reaction to the bombing by our Media and the various Government segments all running in circles searching for the remaining suspect is an absolutely vivid illustration of how to bring the United States to its’ knees with perhaps a dozen people, a wee bit of planning on the part of the bad guys and the selection of a dozen vital locations to disrupt or destroy that are not guarded or watched by the massive army of local police, FBI or the HLS.
If the so called authorities indeed have killed one perp and are closing in on the second one, I’d be very upset if they blow away the second perp. They may not have a choice or the suspect may suicide but dead men cannot furnish information of any sort that might assist in explaining why the bombings went down, who financed it, where the perps were trained, etc.. The complete lock-down of the city of Boston, continued lock-down of a number of areas (as I write this), no public transportation, no taxi’s, people instructed to stay indoors, lock the doors and hide under the bed, not to mention the absolutely massive mobilization of swat-type troops and everyone from Government Agencies from local city, State to Washington D.C., has cost the country several billion dollars or more in economic activity.
Now, multiply this very small and limited act of terror by 12 or 15. Spread it out; one in LA, one in Seattle, a bomb in Denver, a boom in Phoenix, bang in NYC, pop in Miami, maybe a car bomb at a cruise ship terminal when the boat was loading and so on from coast to coast. With that kind of tactic, they wouldn’t even have to kill anyone. The U.S. Government and or ever over alert Media would go absolutely bug shit, 24 hours a day of pumping out rumors, quotes from people who know nothing and interviewing every publicity hungry chief of police and politician from coast to coast.
In my opinion, what this teaches Al-Quida or whomever the bad guys are that touched this off is that someone can shut down the whole country for days at a time with miniscule effort at multiple population centers (or an atomic power plant).
Since the shoot out that apparently killed the older brother used up hundreds and hundreds of rounds for suppressing a single shooter probably explains why the HLS has bought a billion rounds of ammo to allow them to use between 200-500 rounds per person they plan on taking out.
The 24 hour coverage of this activity lends joy to a terrorists’ heart. He thirsts publicity and credit for his despicable and evil actions and the damage to the morale of the people and the economic loss caused by the terrorist actions feed enthusiasm to recruit and deploy more of the same. His handler wants the publicity and credit even more!
Mark my words…. We will now lose more and more of our freedom in the name of “We are the Government and we’re here to protect you!”. They will NEVER be able stop such terrorists actions such as these except by accident, luck and their specialty, entrapment. Then they all stamped onto the scene after the terror action has happened (or aborted) and hopefully figure out what happened and if they are lucky, find the assholes who did it and capture them alive if possible (but not at the risk of losing a single good guy!).
You can bet these lessons are being studied by a whole lot of people in a whole lot of places who have no compunction about turning what they have learned from this into future efforts and campaigns.
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The terrorists already won Muckster.
In an interview on T.V. before 9/11, Osama Bin Laden told the British interviewer he was going to make the U.S. a “shadow of it’s former self”. He certainly succeeded in doing that.
Before 9/11 our debt was stable, we were a free people. After 9/11, we spent money like there’s no tomorrow, and we got the patriot act, designed to turn all patriots into terrorists. The number of police quadrupled as did military spending, and they created the domestic gestapo DHS and TSA. The war on terror was really a war on the American people and our way of life.
We are now a bankrupt country fighting two wars we’ll never honorably be able to get out of. The elitists have used the confusion to get their criminal puppets in Washington to spend trillions on porkulus, tax breaks, bailouts, and a trillion a year on welfare spending. Paulson stole $750 billion from taxpayers and gave it to Wall Street to cover their gambling loses. Greenspan and Bernanke allowed the criminals in Washington to borrow $17 trillion while devaluing the dollar.. Then came Obama, who is destroying this country faster than any president in history.
We are a shadow of our former selves. People are terrorized, running around scared, shutting down entire cities to capture one Muslim punk. They won already. If their intention was to terrorize, they won. If their intention was for us to lose everything we value and hold dear, they won. If their intention was to bankrupt us morally and economically, they won. And before it’s over, like in Rome, many of the people might join their side (the barbarians) because of the tyranny and suffering rendered by those in power. They already won Muckster, sorry.
My only question is: Why did they set them off hours AFTER the winner crossed the line, when most of the press and dignitaries had already left the scene? Maximum effect would have been to take out a few of those important guys rather than innocent bystanders waiting for a friend or family member to cross. Either these boys were stupid (I doubt it) or this was just another ‘false’ flag’ to escalate the emergence of the Police States of America. Will we ever know?
Amen to this article.
First of all, the same police who are furiously patting themselves on the back now lost the second suspect after a gunfight with him and his brother. We could debate how much of a screwup that is but it’s a screwup.
Second of all, for all the manpower, all the armored vehicles, all the helicopters and no doubt satellites they used searching for him, they didn’t find him. A flipping old man went out to check on the cover on his boat parked in his back yard and he found the kid.
Meanwhile, we had the entire commuter train and subway system for the metropolitan Boston area shut down while our vaunted constabulary searched for but did not find the guy.
Ridiculous.
The local and national police are going to pat themselves on the back for this but it looks like they knew SOMEthing was up at the Boston Marathon but they didn’t tell anyone and so 3 died and dozens were maimed. Then they somehow lost one of the two suspects despite having a long gunfight with them and having seemingly limitless manpower at their disposal with which to surround the scene of the gunfight. And finally despite that nearly limitless manpower they didn’t find him. An old man checking on the cover of his boat did.
Boston’s finest?!?
The bad guys won a long time ago. They won before we knew there was a problem. We live in interesting times. Here come the red dragon.
Extremely well written, Mucky. Spot on.
I have nothing to add. Except I’m sick and tired of this shit and I’m going to bed.
Adios Amigos
(PS I’ll bet when I wake up, Fox News still has BREAKING NEWS … 2nd suspect caught!!)
This episode had its affect.
Millions are cheering the government, the police, the DHS and the surveillance used to kill and capture these terrorist killers.
We can sleep well knowing we are “looked after.”
Goddam, if anyone has Facebook it makes me want to fucking puke to read all the tributes to the ducking government.
Muck is right, it’s over.
Ducking speel chek.
Very nice piece, Muck. And AWD, you are correct. Except there is bad news. As badly as our country has fallen as a direct result of bin laden’s mass murder on 9/11, it can get so much worse. For accuracy I should say ‘will’, not ‘can’. But shit, a boy can dream.
The media has gone from merely annoying to flat out dangerous, in whipping up and reinforcing fear and terror in the populace, misplaced trust and confidence in our keepers. The triumphalism following the capture of the kid particularly disturbs me. Like Fred sed, he escaped the early morning shoot-out; all those cops all day long didn’t find him just a few blocks away from their search zone (and just a few blocks away from the shoot-out); if these reports that he went to school on Wednesday, played intramurals and went to a party hold up as true, not exactly the picture of a successful manhunt. (Still, much better than LAPD, and they get props for taking him alive.)
I hope he isn’t too fucked up from gunshot wounds and fire injuries, and he survives to give some answers. A terrible few days, for so many reasons.
Now I understand why DHS bought so much ammo. These very successful cops might want to log some more range time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796UFHldHM4
Makati1:
They wanted to take out the average American joes, not Ethiopian and other world athletes.
I think they staged it they way they wanted it to play out, unless their car broke down or something.
Nice to know I can carry concealed or open in the Commonwealth of Pennsyltucky, unlike the Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts.
AWD nailed it.
Even before this attack, for example the Beltway Sniper shut down Washington D.C. Then earlier this year in Los Angeles, ex-cop Dorner tied the LAPD in knots and made them shoot innocent people. One man did this and he was only violent towards cops.
A more amusing example was over a decade back when a Gay man who had AIDs decided to kill some of his fellow Gays including some big time fashion icon. Word spread he was a master of disguise and Gays were terrified from coast to coast that he could be anywhere. Cops set up checkpoints and were reduced to search dumpy old women and fatsos. The news media was worried.
That said, yes most folks are now well aware that a single dedicated man with the proper resources and planning can tie up a entire city and a small team, the entire country. Our saving grace has been that the perps are generally unstable as hell and few in number. We can’t handle a real life Blofeld or a couple of Qauntico trained snipers who went to the dark side.
The police over response is just a symptom of a larger problem – that is the recruiting procedures that are evidently geared to recruit bullies and sadists over men with even tempers and unflinching nerves. This new breed like most bullies panics the first time someone fires back at them(witness Columbine where the cop on duty fled rather that shoot Klebold and Harris or the Northridge shootout and Dorner). Their training teaches them the public is their enemy and that only a overwhelming military style response is the answer.
For example the recent murder of a manager in NYC by a ex-employee. He was shot dead and the perp put his gun in a bag. He was quickly fingered and two anti-terrorist cops came up to and at point blank range shot him dead. However 8 rounds from the cops wounded bystanders. The cops didn’t bother to get a clear field of fire. They just opened up. This is what soldiers do, not cops.
A lot of the blame can also be laid at the incestuous relationship between the Army and police forces that developed during the 80’s during the War on Drugs under the banner of JTF where the military provided trainers for police and teaching them CQB tactics which are totally at odds with the duties of police. Hence the blurring of the lines between cop and soldier.
Now the average cop has a M-4 and shotgun in his cruiser. The M-4 is totally unsuited for most suburban and urban environments. Deploy them recklessly as cops do and you will injure civilians.
Bottom line: this up weaponizing isn’t needed. Being a cop doesn’t even enter the top 10 most dangerous jobs. It’s pretty safe, except when you run into a crazy and you’re time is up.
But the politico elite loves this new breed of cop, because he doesn’t have any qualms about beating up men, women and kids. IOW keeping the rabble in line.
Obama is protecting us. This is hope and change on display.
Yep. Over the past 24-36 hours I kept thinking that if it takes 9000 cops (according to the propanganda networks) to track down one guy in a known area, what happens if this was the diversion to open up access to a plethora of more enticing targets in the larger city? A couple of terrists on the run in suburbia and it draws virtually the entire Massachusetts Wehrmacht out in the open? Could there be a better time to pop the cork on a dirty bomb in downtown Boston?
Last night -in a horrible fire fight- the Leader, Barack Hussein Obama caught up to and captured the 2nd Boston bomber. Single handedly and at great personal risk , Obama once again rescued his country!!
Viva Obama!!!
I agree Muck.I’m certain this episode of American Lockdown will be very closely studied in future terrorists classes labeled Scaring the Shit Out Of The Gutless Sheeple 101.
We have indeed crossed over the Bridge of Sighs.
“But the politico elite loves this NEW BREED OF COP, because he doesn’t have any qualms about beating up men, women and kids” ————– TheCynic
Cynic, a wonderful and accurate piece you wrote!!
I have only a very minor “correction”. The new breed is the same as the old breed.
According to wiki — “The first known use of the term “police brutality” was in the New York Times in 1893″
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Things really picked up in the early 1900’s with the brutal labor strikes. Hell .. companies even hired theirn OWN “police forces” to beat the shit out of laborers.
Give one man a nightstick and power over another man and he’ll just be dying to use it …. in any age.
I wonder how people the 9000 inept cops found with illegal guns, illegal drugs, paraphernalia, and doing other “illegal” things while they were searching for the punks. Hundreds of people are probably sitting in a jail cell today, collateral damage.
This was a test by the gestapo (DHS) to see what they could get away with. Could they get away with shutting an entire city down? Could they get away with illegal searches? Could they get away with violating property laws and personal rights? The answer is a resounding yes. All they gotta do is scare people with some threat, and send in the troops, and people will do what they are told.
This clears the way for an untold number of events in the future, including martial law, which is essentially what they just saw in Boston. The police state took and got a vote of confidence the last few days. Now there is no limit on what they’ll be allowed to do. No question remains on “how the people will react” or liberties and rights for that matter. All rights and liberties will be null and void when the police state says so. The terrorists won big time this week.
The Gestapo at Obama’s DHS
Exclusive: Roger Hedgecock blows whistle on administration’s effort to bully Americans
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/the-gestapo-at-obamas-dhs/
Obama Gestapo, aka DHS, Advances Plan For ‘Public Safety’ Drones
http://patdollard.com/2013/02/obama-gestapo-aka-dhs-advances-plan-for-public-safety-drones/
DHS=GESTAPO
http://thedcpost.com/?p=26131
DHS Becoming Patriot Killing Machine
http://libertyendanger.com/tag/dhs-gestapo/
Is The Department Of Homeland Security Obama’s Gestapo?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/is-the-department-of-homeland-security-obamas-gestapo/
Look at all the overgrown children running around in their BDU’S and acting like the BMOC?
Everybody but the dog catcher showed up with his M4, body armor and helmet, trying to be more bad-ass than the next clown.
I can just see it…there was a committee to determine who had the most clout to see which agency got its goons to be closest to the “action.”
We’re ruled by middle-aged adolescents with god complexes and a serious need to overcompensate for a lack of self-worth.
My favorite line from a media moron yesterday.
Susan Candiotti of CNN standing on the main drag in Watertown”
“I’m standing in the middle of the main street in Watertown. There is not a soul on the street, there is absolutely no one outside. IT’S AS IF SOMEONE DROPPED A BOMB HERE”
My favorite line from Obama’s Eulogy speech Thursday morning: “WE HAVE BEEN BLOWN OFF OUR FEET.”
At least the lines of communication are still open….
April 19, 2013
Not Letting a Crisis Go To Waste
Posted by Lew Rockwell on April 19, 2013 03:46 PM
The police state is today as happy as a pig in mud. It lives to strut and dominate. But there is one thing bothering them: they control the MSM, but there is no kill-switch for the Internet. And they want to shut down unofficial speculation and dissent. Obama has long lusted after just such a power. If he can, he will simply seize it. Oh, and look for cell phones to be shut down for long periods, as they were initially in Boston. No seditious comments, citizen.
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9,000 assorted “Peace Officers’ to track and deal with one guy (and maybe a few others?). LOL
Hey, at least they wern’t equipped with flamethrowers!
Flamethrower…I bet that would keep the zombies away.I will put it on my to get list.
I concur bb,
A flamethrower is an almost perfect home defense weapon.
While it’s range is limited it’s area of prosecution can be greatly enhanced by wiggling it back and forth.
As alternative consider finding your own chimp.
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Here are a few looking for work