Things go boom

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The full extent of the United States seems to involve putting an entire city under effective martial law to catch two men.

It doesn't matter if he's caught alive or not.  He's won.

Somebody won.

There is now precedent for "locking down" a major city.

[Salty]

The full extent of the United States seems to involve putting an entire city under effective martial law to catch two men.

It doesn't matter if he's caught alive or not.  He's won.

Somebody won.

There is now precedent for "locking down" a major city.

And The People are screaming for it. They're just going to be dissapointed the police didn't string him up then and there. They want the city to be locked down because JESUS there's terrorists out there!

Watch every debate about this event fail to recognize the needless security, and peoples reaction to it.

[Cain]

As you know, I mostly believe the idea that the US state and international terrorism are opposed to each other is a laughable fiction.  No matter what each "side" claims, their activities sustain each other.  Symbiosis, not competition.

[Suu]

I'm also relieved. After they released the BOLO for CT and RI, I felt fucking paranoid walking around today. I thought a lot to myself, "If this happened here, could Providence handle it?" It always kept coming back to "No way." That's not a comforting thought.


This is going to cause a lot of issues. People are going to have conspiracy theories, people are going to have collective shitfits over the lockdown, and people are going to push more gun agendas, and probably pressure cooker agendas or some shit. But all I know is that for 3 hours yesterday, I stood with good people, people who dropped their issues for a short period of time to come together and protect and support a city in a time of crisis. I got sunburned and dehydrated waiting for a small group of pussies to show face, and I didn't care. It was a $20 roundtrip on the train well spent. I just wish that wouldn't be temporary.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

The full extent of the United States seems to involve putting an entire city under effective martial law to catch two men.

It doesn't matter if he's caught alive or not.  He's won.

Somebody won.

There is now precedent for "locking down" a major city.

Yeah. 

But they took him alive and I admire that. And Boston's gonna rock all night long, even if it's mostly drunk monkeys screaming for all the wrong things.

The Future^(TM) will get here soon enough.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

As you know, I mostly believe the idea that the US state and international terrorism are opposed to each other is a laughable fiction.  No matter what each "side" claims, their activities sustain each other.  Symbiosis, not competition.

Well, sure.

Who benefited from this?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm also relieved. After they released the BOLO for CT and RI, I felt fucking paranoid walking around today. I thought a lot to myself, "If this happened here, could Providence handle it?" It always kept coming back to "No way." That's not a comforting thought.


This is going to cause a lot of issues. People are going to have conspiracy theories, people are going to have collective shitfits over the lockdown, and people are going to push more gun agendas, and probably pressure cooker agendas or some shit. But all I know is that for 3 hours yesterday, I stood with good people, people who dropped their issues for a short period of time to come together and protect and support a city in a time of crisis. I got sunburned and dehydrated waiting for a small group of pussies to show face, and I didn't care. It was a $20 roundtrip on the train well spent. I just wish that wouldn't be temporary.

The $20 was the cheap part of the fare, if you know what I mean.

[Cain]

Everyone except the people in Boston.

Obama's been angling for an indefinite detention law, has he not?  The FBI and CIA and NSA and DIA and all the other three letter agencies get continued funding.  America's oversea "allies" continue to get their cut of the pie, no matter their position on human rights.  The racists and religious bigots get to cry "the Green Peril!"  And on the other side, the Islamists* will claim, not unfairly, that they brought a major American city to a standstill by killing three people, that they bloodied the nose of the Great Satan yet again, that Americans are cowards and hypocrites who deserve to be punished.

*assuming this is the ideological inspiration

[Nephew Twiddleton]

There's no winners here. And it is a very bad precedent. I was not happy at all with the ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA being shut down over Watertown.

I really am not, it was unreasonable. Extremely unreasonable.

[Suu]

The full extent of the United States seems to involve putting an entire city under effective martial law to catch two men.

It doesn't matter if he's caught alive or not.  He's won.

Somebody won.

There is now precedent for "locking down" a major city.

And The People are screaming for it. They're just going to be dissapointed the police didn't string him up then and there. They want the city to be locked down because JESUS there's terrorists out there!

Watch every debate about this event fail to recognize the needless security, and peoples reaction to it.

I can assure you that everyone I know that posts here, and other friends I have in the Boston area did not "scream" for it. It fucked up the region from New York to Boston as far as commuting and business is concerned. We may be mostly liberal up here, but we're fucking assholes, and there's a lot of us.

[LMNO]

Yeah. The aftermath and wake of this will be awful.

[Salty]

The full extent of the United States seems to involve putting an entire city under effective martial law to catch two men.

It doesn't matter if he's caught alive or not.  He's won.

Somebody won.

There is now precedent for "locking down" a major city.

And The People are screaming for it. They're just going to be dissapointed the police didn't string him up then and there. They want the city to be locked down because JESUS there's terrorists out there!

Watch every debate about this event fail to recognize the needless security, and peoples reaction to it.

I can assure you that everyone I know that posts here, and other friends I have in the Boston area did not "scream" for it. It fucked up the region from New York to Boston as far as commuting and business is concerned. We may be mostly liberal up here, but we're fucking assholes, and there's a lot of us.

I sensed you might take that that way. Sorry about that.

Not the people who were in the thick of it, the people who watched it on TV without registering the reality of it, the people on my FB page who "want answers" but live 5000 miles away.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

There's a small chance I might get fired over this lock down. We don't get snow days and I didn't make my hours, and I'm out of benefit time. This was one hell of a snow day. I emailed my supervisor. The response I got was "we'll see what we can do on Monday, but no promises."

So fuck this guy and fuck the precedent.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

There's a small chance I might get fired over this lock down. We don't get snow days and I didn't make my hours, and I'm out of benefit time. This was one hell of a snow day. I emailed my supervisor. The response I got was "we'll see what we can do on Monday, but no promises."

So fuck this guy and fuck the precedent.

Yeah, you've got one hell of a lawsuit sitting in front of you if they fire you.

Essentially, you will have been fired for not breaking the law.

[Suu]

Yeah. The aftermath and wake of this will be awful.

My friend Ned who's a commuter from Prov lost 3 days of work this week because of his office or the trains being shut down. He works IN Copley Place. He is not getting paid for missing this time, and, because of the nature of his job, he got screamed at on the phone all day Wednesday and Thursday by clients, ALL in Massachusetts, about not being there to take their calls.

Welcome to New England. Now shut the fuck up, hard-on, I want my medium iced regular and a real fuckin' person on the phone.