Terror is especially terrifying in the USA
Click through for an excellent piece on why shutting down Boston was just the latest victory for terrorists who target the US. Love this line:
What terrorists want is to terrify people; Americans always oblige.
And regarding an attack on London:
I happened to be in London on 7/7—a far more deadly and frightening terrorist attack—and by 7 P.M. on that horrible day, with the terrorists still at large (they were dead already, but no one knew that), the red double-decker buses were rolling and the traffic was turning and life, though hardly normal, was determinedly going on.
Civil liberties aside, maybe it’s time for America to grow a pair.
The Watertown saga was a textbook case of the government terrorising the people. Government players aren’t so naive to actually think implementing de facto martial law was in any way an appropriate practical (or legal) response to the small risk posed by the fugitive suspect. The alleged “terrorists” in this case (actually just criminals) may have enjoyed some small victory, depending on what their actual motives were, but the government did 99% of the terrorising and can claim 99% of the victory.
true dat.