If your primary concern isn’t public safety why would you be in carrer that puts your life on the line on a regular basis?
Instead of serving warrants and arresting criminals we could just shoot them when they leave their house and mitigate all the risk.
It’s the same reason the US doesn’t just use drones to blow up every terrorist we are looking for since capturing some is worth the risk in information. In the case of Boston they already killed one suspect and at the time didn’t know if there was a bigger plot or other things in the works.
The reason why you don’t use deadly force on a SUSPECT is because he INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!!! Seriously guys, this person is an American citizen and as such deserves a trial in front of a jury.
If you didn’t see a gun, and he didn’t fire at you, then you don’t fire at him. This isn’t a god damned movie.
What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I’m talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT… Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.
So does this make it the first taxpayer funded terrorist attack?
How many more people on the terrorist watch list are receiving public assistance money?
so maybe we can move in a different direction in this thread now. I picked up the NY Times the other day and saw this story:
We’ve gone from 9/11 where we (gov, media, public) projected on to a whole culture and part of the world (anyone brown) the fear and prejudice and hatred resulting from the event to this boston marathon thing where now we’re looking at the individual and humanizing him… looking at his struggle and what ultimately lead him to the act.
IMHO this goes too far. Some people need to know who he is to this level of detail for policy and law enforcement reasons, but i think it’s completely counter-productive going to market with any level of compassion for this guy and anyone like him in the future. I dont think we should get to know terrorists. They should remain mysterious and crazy anomalies; unrelatable.
If everyone gets to read about his story some will liken it to themselves and realize that the only way for them to make others really feel their struggle, the only way to get their story out, will be to create some terrible act like this where they’ll end up on the front page of the NYT talking all ‘poor terrorist’.
The people who do this crap don’t deserve any compassion and their acts should never be rationalized or have any reason or causality applied to them in public. Again, yeah that information should be known for policy making and law enforcement but i dont need the opportunity to feel any empathy toward this guy and the next guy. Just forget about them and make them as meaningless as they were before the moment they killed a stack of people.
They weren’t 100% sure if it was a suspect or someone that was struck with the bomb. I’m guessing a suspect though. It really will be amazing if its the wife that people are saying to leave out of the picture.
I really like living in America. I let the “AMERICAH” motanges and FaceBook posts roll of my back like water, I understand it’s what people need to do to get through a tragedy. Fine.
Then you get the group of individuals who see take out containers amongst the bomb site and now they are “containers of fake blood”. People who legitimately lost their limbs, livelihood and had their worlds turned upside down are now “actors”. These mouth-breathers are actually allowed to reproduce. These people make decisions on a day-to-day basis that could potentially effect our lives. It’s about this time that I really begin to depise the first amendment.
am I the only one that still finds it odd that there are pictures showing the suspected backpack near the finish line, sitting on the ground in front of one of the dudes in tan pants and combat boots? these guys are trained to be ready for crazy shit, I’m sure a random backpack chilling in the middle of a crowd would raise an eyebrow at the least.
am i the only one that finds it odd, that the shredded backpack from the finish line doesnt match the backpacks carried by either of the brothers?
