It is all well and good the suspected bombers in Boston were
stopped from taking more lives, injuring more people and doing more
damage. There is no doubt those two
brothers were identified, found and neutralized in a record amount of
time. We saw the people in the
neighborhood cheer and applaud as the law enforcement, federal agents, state
police and local police left the arrest site.
There is just one thing to remember regarding this incident. Local and state police were federalized, the
government stepped in and "locked down" an entire American city,
military-like tactical gear was brought in to a city with heavy armored
vehicles and automatic weapons of war, they marched through the streets, closed
down the entire city and went from house to house searching inside without
warrants. If it wasn't called marshal
law it resembled it so closely one could scarcely tell the difference.
Without a doubt people rested easier when the suspect was found
and apprehended. Yes, the law
enforcement agencies along with the federal and state agencies coupled with the
military saved the day. One lesson we
should learn, however, should be that what we witnessed in a five-day period
after an horrific incident, the capability of military-like armaments and law
enforcement under the leadership of the political structure can so easily and
quickly come together to enact a marshal law type of control that immobilizes
citizens in a sequester to their homes and subjects them to searches without
the benefit of warrants from the court.
This should give us pause to realize this action is not so difficult to
accomplish in America given the right circumstances.
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