Ron Paul on Boston Bombing

We have mentioned this before in our blog postings, however, to reiterate, we agree with Ron Paul on his domestic policies but disagree on his foreign policy pronouncements.  We agree completely with his comments in regard to the Boston occupation and search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  We think Boston got it all wrong and have said so in previous postings.  The police over-reaction was scary, the politician back-slapping was over-done and the real heroes of the investigation have not been mentioned in any press coverage or any comments by officials.

The police NEVER would have caught these guys without the eye witness identifying them or the boat owner who called the police.  The cops were stymied and believed the Dzhokhar  had left the area. Two hours later they were congratulating themselves on great police work. Bunk!

If one was writing a play book on how to take over a city, Boston would be  great example. Was it a planned exercise that got out of control? Or was it a pre-planned attack by the government or others? Were the Tsaranaev brothers pawns or was this a real attack?  Lots of questions, however, we feel that the answer will become evident within six to twelve months.

Conservative Tom

Ron Paul: Police response to Boston bombing as frightening as attack

By Justin Sink - 04/29/13 05:02 PM ET

  

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Monday that the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing "should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”

The former Republican presidential candidate, writing for a libertarian website, said the reaction to the twin blasts — which killed three and wounded more than 200 more — was like a “military coup in a far off banana republic.”

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” Paul said.

The former congressman, who is the father of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), argued that the capture of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was actually evidence that private citizens could effectively respond to terror threats.

"What has been sadly forgotten in all the celebration of the capture of one suspect and the killing of his older brother is that the police state tactics in Boston did absolutely nothing to catch them," Paul said. "While the media crowed that the apprehension of the suspects was a triumph of the new surveillance state — and, predictably, many talking heads and Members of Congress called for even more government cameras pointed at the rest of us — the fact is none of this caught the suspect."

Instead, Paul argues, it was only after the "shelter in place" order was lifted that Tsarnaev was discovered.

“The suspect was not discovered by the paramilitary troops terrorizing the public,” Paul said. “He was discovered by a private citizen, who then placed a call to the police. And he was identified not by government surveillance cameras, but by private citizens who willingly shared their photographs with the police.”

While the elder Paul said that the police response was disproportionate to the threat of the Boston bomber, Rand Paul made headlines last week when he said he would have supported the use of drones in the hunt for the marathon bombers. Paul, who made headlines last month during his nearly 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor in protest of the White House's drone policy, later issued a statement clarifying that his statement was not a shift.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/296805-ron-paul-police-response-to-boston-bombing-as-frightening-as-attack#ixzz2RtdS5Yy8 
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