Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Boston, a cradle of Liberty?

Yeah, THAT Boston, where the "shot heard 'round the world" was first fired at Concord, to start the Revolutionary War, the winning of which gave us our freedoms.

THAT Boston, where the new catch-phrase "Boston Strong" has just been crafted and is now seen all over the country.

The only thing about Boston that's strong is the smell left over, not from bombs exploding 8 days ago, but from the stench of a crapped-on Constitution lying in the gutter there.

A couple of shit-for-brains Jihadis were enough to cause the various levels of Government there to illegally declare the Constitution suspended?

Oho! You say, "there was no such Declaration, 'Dog."

You're right, the traitors (Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino) who usurped the Constitution for better than two days in Boston didn't bother to make a declaration, because they knew that such a move would only have highlighted the un-Constitutionality of their actions.

But wait! You sniffle, and your dim-bulb glows, "didn't the Mayor and the Governor declare States of Emergency, 'Dog, and don't those declarations cover the Government actions?"

Ah, no, they don't, Tony Macaroni. All they do is permit the City to govern, according to the Constitution, by decree of the Mayor (or Governor), instead of by the processes of the Legislature or City Council, and primarily they are published so as to deny the cops overtime pay, since the declarations suspend wage and hour rules. If that State allows such declarations to deny Constitutional Rights, then it needs to be challenged in Court and have that authority removed from the Governor. Likewise the City of Boston.

The States of Emergency cannot permit police to boot down doors without a warrant or  arrest without probable cause (4th Amendment violations) or totally deny freedom of movement and assembly (First Amendment violations). All those violations of Civil Rights happened. The declarations of Emergency might be stretched to include closing off an area which is actually part of the crime scene, but not the entire City. If the Governor wants to stop commuter trains, and the Mayor subways and busses, fine, that's their perogative: the State and City own them, and they can run them or not.

So we have every liberal in the whole damn deluded Nation slapping the MA and Boston Governments on the back, praising them to the skies for their "efficiency" in capturing/killing the incompetent Jihadis.

Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn't have much trouble capturing criminals, either, did they? Would you have wanted to live under their governance?

Didn't think so.

Aren't you just a bit curious as to what might have happened if the Jihadis had bombed, say, the Boise Marathon, or maybe the Salt Lake City Marathon?

Let's apply a "Second Amendment Filter" to this discussion, shall we? Take any City where the Second Amendment is broadly supported (not begrudgingly supported like my City of Portland, OR), and ask yourself if the Government would have even thought about cancelling the Bill of Rights to catch a couple of Jihadis. Nope, in those cities, citizens would have just slung their rifles, strapped on their sidearms, and gone about their business, and the cops would have used the Constitution to help catch the perpetrators instead of wiping their collective asses with it.

The "blue" States don't support or even use their Constitution anymore, so they are doomed to the predations of Government, whenever that Government gets a whim to act outside of their Constitutional authority. Boston just proved that.

"Boston Strong", WTF?

That should be "Boston Wrong".

What would have happened....

...to the British defense against the Nazi's Operation Sea Lion, of which the Blitz on London was just the opening move, if the Brits had all stopped to mope and insist on memorializing those killed by the Gernams' aerial bombardment?

A lost war would have been the result. Sea Lion would likely have succeeded, and the Germans would have mounted their invasion by sea next.

There is a lot of moping in progress now, and some fist-pumping that we ended the threat. Ummmm, no, we didn't end the threat. 

We haven't a farging clue yet about the Tsarnaevs' allies, if any. The FeeBees, who refused to pick up the elder boomer a couple of years ago upon request of Russian State Security, have egg all over their collective faces on this one, and the look back at how the FBI failed is just beginning.

In the meanwhile, be aware that there are many hundreds of thousands of "political refugees" such as the Tsarnayev brothers here in the USA, all granted visas due to the various Caucasus wars the the Russ have been fighting with the Islamists. How many more are of the Islamist-Jihadi persuasion?

We don't have a clue, but let's say that a million refugees or so immigrated here in the past 20 years (a figure I heard locally), and if half of one percent are Jihadis, that means that we have 5,000 of THAT stripe of Jihadi within our borders now.

It being so horribly WRONG to "profile" people, I'd wager that the FeeBees do NOT have a handle on this potential threat, and will have to play catch-up.

Of course, playing Catch-up begs the question: how allied are the Caucasus Jihadis with the others, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and all the various others? Is there a true Islamist network forming? The Jihadi sects all say that the Quran provides the message to get such a network going, and the various alliances demonstrated during the several "Arab Spring" revolutions in the Middle East seem to indicate that such networks can thrive, at least until their primary objectives are reached.

We have reason to worry that the killing of Osama Bin Laden, no matter how much it might have boasted about by President Obama, means little in the overall scheme of things. We have reason to worry that the Jihadi alliances we now stupidly support in the Syrian civil war will just take our weapons, our training and our funding and use all that against us, and then laugh about it.

We don't know Taqiyya, THEY know Taqiyya.

Q.O.T.D.

"Guys like the Boston bombers are a product of Jihadism's community outreach program." Mike Baker, former CIA covert operative on Fox News @ 0942 PDT

2043 EDT, suspect #2 in irons.

Fulla holes, but alive, in custody enroute to hospital.

Sic semper tyrannis.

2027 EDT: FeeBees raid dorm room of suspect/s, arrest roomies.

At U-Mass Dartmouth. Saw it on Fox News just now. Unknown charges, but if they found so much as a roll of caps in there, they'd bust the roomies for maintaining WMDs, I'm sure. They drove in and out with three rental box-van trucks, though.

Hmmm, this might be how to get the house de-cluttered without the back strain and dumpster charges....

1915 EDT: Suspect down in hail of police gunfire - Updated!

Suspect killed*. Had been hiding in a boat in a yard on Franklin St in Watertown.

Bugler, sound chow call. The troops may stand down.

Now the lad gets to meet his brother and munch his 72 raisins (Not yet) Something tells me that the older brother will be upset, having died at the hands of younger bro, and under the wheels of a stolen Benz SUV, not in gun-blazing or bomb-booming glory.

* Argument now among newsies an hour later says he is alive in the fishboat he was hiding out in, maybe even moving around. Maybe I should call him "in custody". Gotta solution for this. Back up a fire truck, and fill the boat with water. You either snaffle him out alive, or after he's assumed the consistency of a soggy bowl of cereal.

7pm EDT: Shots fired in Watertown

The end, maybe?

Putin's terror war comes to Boston

Apparently. Explains some of the confusion, too. White muzzies. Uber-violence. Who'd a thunk it?

The suspect on the loose is reported as:

His world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."

A pair of heavily-armed Chechens on the attack. I wonder how many more of them there are here. In Mother Russia, they have excellent networking skills, can operate almost at will against Russian State Security, and the best of that post-KGB outfit is Putin himself.

This is not only troubling, but if this is just the Chechen Resistance's opening round here in the USA, we are in for a long fight. I'm a quarter Russian by blood, and my son has been in the Caucasus twice on Christian educational missions, but in the days when the violence was just getting started. We both try to stay abreast of things in the Russian sphere.

I'm going to have to have a sit-down with him and try to get my head around this Chechen thing. After reading this Wiki, I'm still at a loss to explain why Chechen fighters would target the US, except if they were of the Salafist sect, and those extremists see the US as a Great Satan.

This NYT article paints the Salafist muslims as being even more jihadi than the Taliban.

I dunno, readers, but the first analysis I make doesn't blow any sunshine our way. We have an Administration spreading a worldview that we must tolerate all things Islamic, even though there are some very rough edges there, and now we have an attack by a pair of Chechen fighters who could easily be Salafist Muslims. If Putin, who has zero tolerance for islamic jihadism, can't get much of a handle on this problem, then we aren't going to get ANY handle on it, none at all.

If there are more of these Chechen Salafists, who, if their English is decent, will blend in anywhere, and if it isn't, will at least blend into the Russian enclaves such as the large one across the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA, we need to get some "HumInt" going, and we need it now. They needed it months ago in Boston.

For starters, some heavy brass from the FBI ought to be packing their bags and heading for Moscow about now, with Secretary of State Kerry having gotten them some serious conference time with Russian State Security. We need Putin's help here. Getting it will be expensive for us. Tip: if you can buy international stock equities, buy Gazprom. If we are to get any help from Putin, his price will be to eliminate US natural gas sales competition for Gazprom.

Tough choice, be a little more secure against a newly-revealed threat, or boost our energy exports to strengthen the dollar. I vote for safety.

White House "reluctant" to call Boston Marathon Massacre "terrorism"

Let's call it what it has been since the first bombs went off.

Now, get the cocksmoker who burned himself up with one of his bombs well enough to travel, and send his ass to Gitmo. We don't need to lawyer him up here, just keep him mum in hospital, then ship him to Gitmo. We have a fine Navy Hospital in Norfolk VA which can care for him...I was born there. Don't even think about letting Eric Holder's crew "try" him. You will recall that before Holder was appointed to USAG, he ran a law firm which specialized in defending muzzie terrorists....

Of course Nobama doesn't want to admit a muzzie attack on US soil again...hell, he spent millions campaigning that W sucked as Prexy because of allowing 9-11.

How does that "let the terrorists in" hair shirt feel on YOU, Mister President? 

Muzzie offs 2 Coptics in NJ, dismembers corpses, is arrested...

...and I've heard nada on the MSM.

Story broken by a righty blogger, repeated on Rantburg.

Really. This story has way more gravitas than Jody Arias' shenannigans, but there has been hours of Arias on the MSM since 04062013.

Story doesn't fit the usual stylebook, I guess.