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April 21, 2013

Security theater

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What choice did the people of Watertown really have? The government has disarmed them
(and I’d bet that nearly 45% of MA residents disagree with the state’s anti-gun policies); the government controls the public transportation; and evidently, we’ve militarized our metropolitan police forces to the point where your best bet is to stay inside, because we have (rightly) nervous law enforcement officers patrolling in areas that might be booby-trapped, armed with “assault weapons,” ready to fire on perceived threats. -- | protein wisdom

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 21, 2013 11:12 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The best line is in the comments to that piece:

We were cajoled into it by a government telling us that the “terrorist came here to kill people” when, in fact, he came here as a nine year old. His decision to kill came after his immersion in the unicorn dreams of the Cambridge public school system. Allowing someone to work out their “special snowflake” identity crisis through school essays about Chechan terrorists is antithetical to what public education should accomplish: a shared society of responsible adults.

Yowsir.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at April 21, 2013 12:20 PM

The thing I found most disturbing was the way the crowd applauded the uniformed union members as they drove away to log their overtime after the subject was taken into custody.

It could be a new reality show. It looked staged, as though the news media had set it up, which they did in a way by having a desperate presence and nothing to do except sing an endless round. North Koreans applaud events like this because they get a cup of gruel afterward.

Posted by: mushroom at April 22, 2013 5:15 AM

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