Scary here in Boston....

[kyratshooter]

Where are the wife and kids of the suspect they killed?

They are off the radar completely.

In custory?

[crashdive123]

The said that the good terrorist (the dead one) has a three year old daughter, but didn't hear any other details.

[LowKey]

Quite a few things coming out of this not to my liking.
-Total lockdown and search of houses. Haven't heard if they are just knocking on doors or actually going through houses to make sure no one is coerced. The second makes me uncomfortable.
-The thing about no weapons in sight is good advice. If you aren't holding it, it isn't under your control and they might just arrest you because they can.
- Never before has a city in the US been so shut down because of one man. It looks more like a police exercise than a manhunt. And if they don't find the kid in the last 30% of the Watertown cordon left to search before dark, they are gonna look mighty foolish. 10,000 men can't find 1?
- The entire city is shut down. The news was reporting that al Queda websites were dancing with glee that even if these guys aren't muslim extremists, they are claiming they are and that it is costing Boston hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in a lost day's revenue and in the paid manpower and equipment out there. Seriously. Armed humvees? One kid on foot, even if he has a belt of explosives, only rates one humvee. Maybe 2.

Meanwhile, in other news, The President is writing or has written an EO on rolling back HIPPA to make states comply with NICS data entry. How far back? who knows? That's the only one I heard today. Are there others? What part about "The people said NO" doesn't he get?

[1stimestar]

From my friend in Boston.

1) they're going house to house in Watertown, storming in to every home with guns drawn, looking in every corner of the house for ONE MAN.

2) they're posting make, model, license plate of cars they are searching for, believing that THIS SAME MAN has hijacked these cars and then dumped them.

What's wrong here?

Although I did see another person say they were not storming in if invited...

[LowKey]

You should be able to turn them away. Not a choice if the choice is "inviting" or "storming."

[letslearntogether47]

The entire city is not shut down. Watertown and surrounding areas are shut down. I as many others expected this guy caught some time this am. It would make absolutely no sense for law enforcement to crash into homes in that area the state.
That is the bastion of a certain party that has a grip on the state. Why PO people there?
The real shock is this guy is still on the lose.

[LowKey]

This is what was shut down today:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/mas...ston-closures/
I'd call that pretty much the entire city.
BTW, they meant Newton, not Newtown.

[Rick]

Never before has one man had the potential capacity to destroy so much. They obviously had bombs in the care with them I just wonder how many this goof ball took with him. I wondered if they intended to plant bombs at MIT and got interrupted by the slain officer.

[NightShade]

They're getting him right now... Shootout happening as I type

[Ken]

Reports that a "SUSPECT IS DOWN."

[letslearntogether47]

In custody and alive.

[letslearntogether47]

Never before has one man had the potential capacity to destroy so much. They obviously had bombs in the care with them I just wonder how many this goof ball took with him. I wondered if they intended to plant bombs at MIT and got interrupted by the slain officer.

That's what I was thinking,MIT was the next target.

[Winter]

Take notes people. That is what martial law looks like.

Storming peoples homes without reasonable cause and no warrant? WTF happened to due process?

A mark of a just person or government is not how they act when everything is hunky dory, when things go bad, the bad rears its head.

[letslearntogether47]

Storming peoples homes?
Interesting,the news must get skewed by the time it reaches the west coast.

[LowKey]

Great, now, unless he dies of his wounds, we get to feed him and coddle him and pat him on the head and tell him how misunderstood he is, spend millions of dollars on a trial that will be televised and give this punk more notoriety than the 6 feet deep he should have gotten. The next one will just do something worse. Escalation is the price we pay for giving them after-the-fact fame.
I just hope this kid wasn't licensed.

[coydog2]

Take notes people. That is what martial law looks like.

Storming peoples homes without reasonable cause and no warrant? WTF happened to due process?

A mark of a just person or government is not how they act when everything is hunky dory, when things go bad, the bad rears its head.

You have it right and just a warning of what to come in time.It is not what they wanted us to see can be done but they use it to see if they really can do it.That is how i see it.Also for you who dose live there know what the laws are really are and how it is really around there ,not what the media say and some say.

[crashdive123]

I think that the expression "storming homes" is way off base - at least from reports. It that had happened I think it would be all over every conservative, liberal and libertarian site out there.

[Rick]

I guess if I were in my home with a gun to my head and this guy threatening to kill me I might actually want someone to storm my home. That aside, I've seen nothing on social media or the news that the police did anything improper or anything other than go door to door. Quite the opposite. Everyone, even the neighbors in Watertown, are praising them for the job they did. And that's at all levels of LEO. I am a little concerned over the suspension of his Constitutional rights for the sake of "security". This guy apparently became a U.S. citizen in November last year so the Constitution applies to him. If he were still a Russian national then I would not have quiet the concern. I'd still like to hack him up but after he was Marandized and he told us what his agenda was.

[BENESSE]

This guy apparently became a U.S. citizen in November last year so the Constitution applies to him. If he were still a Russian national then I would not have quiet the concern. I'd still like to hack him up but after he was Marandized and he told us what his agenda was.

The dead older brother wasn't a US citizen and there was "heads up" about him 2 years ago when the authorities became aware of his Islamic radical rantings on line. I heard (in passing) that the Russians or the Chechens warned the US about him, but there was no follow up.
I'm sure more will come out.

As far as the younger scumbag in the hospital is concerned, I hope we do everything by the book--can't afford to let him slip by on a technicality.

[LowKey]

This is just a reminder about that Patriot Act exception to the Constitution where even an American Citizen can apparently be held indefinitely, or perhaps even executed, without due process in the name of 'security'. Unacceptable. Even for scum like this.