Boston Strong’: Marching in Lockstep with the Police State

[Stephanie]

this was shocking to watch all over ONE PERSON they were searching for..what were you people thinking in Boston?

SNIP:

By John W. Whitehead
April 22, 2013


“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”—C.S. Lewis

Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted off its axis, that axis being the U.S. Constitution.

For those like myself who have studied emerging police states, the sight of a city placed under martial law—its citizens under house arrest (officials used the Orwellian phrase “shelter in place” to describe the mandatory lockdown), military-style helicopters equipped with thermal imaging devices buzzing the skies, tanks and armored vehicles on the streets, and snipers perched on rooftops, while thousands of black-garbed police swarmed the streets and SWAT teams carried out house-to-house searches in search of two young and seemingly unlikely bombing suspects—leaves us in a growing state of unease.

Mind you, these are no longer warning signs of a steadily encroaching police state. The police state has arrived.

Equally unnerving is the ease with which Americans welcomed the city-wide lockdown, the routine invasion of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses. Watching it unfold, I couldn’t help but think of Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s remarks during the Nuremberg trials. As Goering noted:

It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

As the events in Boston have made clear, it does indeed work the same in every country. The same propaganda and police state tactics that worked for Adolf Hitler 80 years ago continue to be employed with great success in a post-9/11 America.


all of it here
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ng_marching_in_lockstep_with_the_police_state

 

[Unkotare]

Why isn't this in the Conspiracy Forum?

 

[Sallow]

There was a terrorist who was involved in placing pretty powerful explosives that ripped through the bodies of over 100 people killing several of them and then shooting to death a police officer, on the loose.

Even the Constitution of the United States provides for the government to protect it's civilian population in the face of such a threat.

 

[numan]

'
The United States was perfected as a police state by G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- which is why they should be mentioned in the same breath as Mao, Stalin and Hitler, even apart from the similarity of invading foreign countries and rampaging with barbaric violence through them.

Today, America's Gestapoid, militarized, violence-prone police force, its Nazi-like war machinery, its omnipresent brainwashing apparatus, and its vast prison gulag, which surpasses the worst excesses of the old Soviet Union, have made the U.S.A. the model for all modern totalitarian regimes.
.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

There was a terrorist who was involved in placing pretty powerful explosives that ripped through the bodies of over 100 people killing several of them and then shooting to death a police officer, on the loose.

Even the Constitution of the United States provides for the government to protect it's civilian population in the face of such a threat.

The O/P indeed seems to insinuate there was no provocation for this lockdown, as if this house to house search materialized out of thin air and the bombs detonated on Boylston Street were just an excuse to get the raid started.

We can always count on the right for our daily dose of sheer paranoia.

 

[Ravi]

It's pretty awesome to see the rightwingloons supporting the terrorist's side.

Crazy as bat shit loons they are....imagine if the Boston cops did nothing and the asswipes used the rest of their arsenal.

Yet more reasons Republicans keep losing elections.

 

[Intense]

Moved To Conspiracy Theories.

 

[Unkotare]

Yet more reasons Republicans keep losing elections.

Republicans DON'T "keep losing elections," and conspiracy nonsense is NOT a Republican position. I've heard nuts from the far left and the far right trying to spin ridiculous 'theories' around these events. Try to keep your partisanship in check once in a while.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

'
The United States was perfected as a police state by G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- which is why they should be mentioned in the same breath as Mao, Stalin and Hitler, even apart from the similarity of invading foreign countries and rampaging with barbaric violence through them.

Today, America's Gestapoid, militarized, violence-prone police force, its Nazi-like war machinery, its omnipresent brainwashing apparatus, and its vast prison gulag, which surpasses the worst excesses of the old Soviet Union, have made the U.S.A. the model for all modern totalitarian regimes.
.

with the exception of carter,every president we have had since JFK.our last REAL president we had not a puppet for the establishment and paid the price for it,with the exception of carter,every president we have had since him pretty much fits that bill.The CIA is the reason the world is in the mess.Jfk was trying to get rid of them and again,he paid the price for it.carter is the only half way decent president we have had since then.

He also was taking steps to get rid of the CIA in his last year in office.He did not have enough time to implement the plans though because he only served one term and again,did not take steps to try and get rid of them till his last year.

another example of a good president who did not get to stay in office very long.carter was somewhat corrupt,but not anywhere near to the extremes the others were that have served since kennedy.

 

[Stephanie]

It's pretty awesome to see the rightwingloons supporting the terrorist's side.

Crazy as bat shit loons they are....imagine if the Boston cops did nothing and the asswipes used the rest of their arsenal.

Yet more reasons Republicans keep losing elections.

would that be like you posting from the dailybeast and wanting to call them, losers?

 

[Oddball]

'
The United States was perfected as a police state by G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- which is why they should be mentioned in the same breath as Mao, Stalin and Hitler, even apart from the similarity of invading foreign countries and rampaging with barbaric violence through them.

Today, America's Gestapoid, militarized, violence-prone police force, its Nazi-like war machinery, its omnipresent brainwashing apparatus, and its vast prison gulag, which surpasses the worst excesses of the old Soviet Union, have made the U.S.A. the model for all modern totalitarian regimes.
.

The police state's roots go a lot farther back than BOOOOOOSH!, fruitcake....Two of the left's greatest avatars -Wilson and FDR- routinely rounded up and incarcerated "wrong thinkers".

But thanks for the obligatory partisan hackery anyways.

 

[Desperado]

Best heard this described on another message board as:
BOSTON SHEEPLE WORSHIP THE POLICE STATE IN MASS OUTBREAK OF STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

Interesting read:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-STATE-IN-MASS-OUTBREAK-OF-STOCKHOLM-SYNDROME

 

[Oddball]

There was a terrorist who was involved in placing pretty powerful explosives that ripped through the bodies of over 100 people killing several of them and then shooting to death a police officer, on the loose.

Even the Constitution of the United States provides for the government to protect it's civilian population in the face of such a threat.

Looks more like Constitutional protections were usurped to cover the asses of the incompetent flatfoot Boston cops, who allowed a gravely wounded suspect to escape.

All hail the police state!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I am from Boston. My family is there and I have many friends there. NOBODY was put in lock down in their houses and there was no Martial Law implemented. People by and large, at the recommended of law enforcement and government officials, voluntarily stayed home given that there was a nutjob running around possibly with explosives. Nobody was forcibly confined to their homes with the possible exception of the few houses surrounding the Watertown house where he was found, for obvious reasons.

All you people hysterically screaming about Martial Law don't even live there. It's easy to pontificate from 1000 miles away.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

this was shocking to watch all over ONE PERSON they were searching for..what were you people thinking in Boston?

SNIP:

By John W. Whitehead
April 22, 2013


“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”—C.S. Lewis

Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted off its axis, that axis being the U.S. Constitution.

For those like myself who have studied emerging police states, the sight of a city placed under martial law—its citizens under house arrest (officials used the Orwellian phrase “shelter in place” to describe the mandatory lockdown), military-style helicopters equipped with thermal imaging devices buzzing the skies, tanks and armored vehicles on the streets, and snipers perched on rooftops, while thousands of black-garbed police swarmed the streets and SWAT teams carried out house-to-house searches in search of two young and seemingly unlikely bombing suspects—leaves us in a growing state of unease.

Mind you, these are no longer warning signs of a steadily encroaching police state. The police state has arrived.

Equally unnerving is the ease with which Americans welcomed the city-wide lockdown, the routine invasion of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses. Watching it unfold, I couldn’t help but think of Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s remarks during the Nuremberg trials. As Goering noted:

It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

As the events in Boston have made clear, it does indeed work the same in every country. The same propaganda and police state tactics that worked for Adolf Hitler 80 years ago continue to be employed with great success in a post-9/11 America.


all of it here
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ng_marching_in_lockstep_with_the_police_state

funny that your open minded about this subject but you have been taken in by the myth,lies and propaganda that Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century when others actuially spelled it ot for you that he was actully the most corrupt president ever at that time.

 

[Desperado]

Watch this video and tell me again that this was voluntary.
I do not believe the people in that house had much of a choice.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YWsbBhzxYw8]Shock Footage - Warrantless House-toHouse Raids In Boston - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Stephanie]

this was shocking to watch all over ONE PERSON they were searching for..what were you people thinking in Boston?

SNIP:

By John W. Whitehead
April 22, 2013


“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”—C.S. Lewis

Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted off its axis, that axis being the U.S. Constitution.

For those like myself who have studied emerging police states, the sight of a city placed under martial law—its citizens under house arrest (officials used the Orwellian phrase “shelter in place” to describe the mandatory lockdown), military-style helicopters equipped with thermal imaging devices buzzing the skies, tanks and armored vehicles on the streets, and snipers perched on rooftops, while thousands of black-garbed police swarmed the streets and SWAT teams carried out house-to-house searches in search of two young and seemingly unlikely bombing suspects—leaves us in a growing state of unease.

Mind you, these are no longer warning signs of a steadily encroaching police state. The police state has arrived.

Equally unnerving is the ease with which Americans welcomed the city-wide lockdown, the routine invasion of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses. Watching it unfold, I couldn’t help but think of Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s remarks during the Nuremberg trials. As Goering noted:

It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

As the events in Boston have made clear, it does indeed work the same in every country. The same propaganda and police state tactics that worked for Adolf Hitler 80 years ago continue to be employed with great success in a post-9/11 America.


all of it here
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ng_marching_in_lockstep_with_the_police_state

funny that your open minded about this subject but you have been taken in by the myth,lies and propaganda that Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century when others actuially spelled it ot for you that he was actully the most corrupt president ever at that time.

oh brother...

 

[Ravi]

Yet more reasons Republicans keep losing elections.

Republicans DON'T "keep losing elections," and conspiracy nonsense is NOT a Republican position. I've heard nuts from the far left and the far right trying to spin ridiculous 'theories' around these events. Try to keep your partisanship in check once in a while.

Stuphie is a rightie wacko....in fact most of the complaints on how the police handled the situation come from, you guessed it, rightie wackos.

 

[Oddball]

I am from Boston. My family is there and I have many friends there. NOBODY was put in lock down in their houses and there was no Martial Law implemented. People by and large, at the recommended of law enforcement and government officials, voluntarily stayed home given that there was a nutjob running around possibly with explosives. Nobody was forcibly confined to their homes with the possible exception of the few houses surrounding the Watertown house where he was found, for obvious reasons.

The "obvious reason" was because the bungling Boston police let that nutjob escape....And they'll escape any culpability for it.

 

[Truthmatters]

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