April 20, 2013
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After The Hunt…Boston Sleeps
I have to be honest.
I am not feeling particularly charitable at the moment.
I am not getting all torn up about the second bombing suspects “rights”, or the fact that he has been tried in the court of public opinion.
I don’t care that people are implying that he might be innocent…or set up.
I can count. I listened to the tape of the shootout in Watertown…hundreds of shots in two minutes.
I’ve driven in the area where they had their 100 MPH chase…where the streets are tiny and crabbed, and homes are stacked like hotcakes.
I am both shocked and grateful that so few died that night, in a neighborhood where people’s kids were sleeping.
I am humbled and shaken by the fact that a region was paralyzed by two men.
As I mentioned, I was hanging with my daughter…because that seemed to make more sense than anything else. I remembered thinking that it was weird…one suspect they shot…but the other one they missed completely? That didn’t add up. I said to a few people I wondered if he was just holed up, wounded or dead.
So I guess I was partially correct. (Not that there is a prize involved.)
I did not have “skin” in this. But I have felt guilt about the nonsense of terrorism since 9-11. I brought a child into this world, betting on the better angels…and she is such an amazing person, that this sort of thing wounds her. I don’t care what you believe politically. I don’t care who you hate. You don’t carry it across another country’s borders, and hope to make a “statement”. Americans in particular will KICK YOUR ASS. Not because we are evil imperialists, but because we HAVE to. Too many bullies on the schoolyard think they can run the joint, if they can keep you scared.
Yes, we get scared.
But we also get PISSED. I watched an entire region willing to allow anything to catch those bastards. (And sorry…no apologies for assuming guilt here.) I watched government work together—to nail them, even if it took shutting down an entire city to do it. So spare me the father’s insistence that his “good” boys were set up. Don’t bother me with the whole Miranda rights bullshit in this case…NOT BUYING.
No…it will not bring back the dead. It will not grant limbs and mobility to the newly crippled. But I think the message has been sent. We can’t stop you from doing something horrible, perhaps…but we will stop at NOTHING to find your ass if you do. You aren’t a hero. Your god will not love you for atrocity. And we the People?
We will help those you wounded.
We will mourn those you killed.
And we will cheer-when they catch you.
Good luck, you bastards.
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I keep thinking about the eight year old boy they killed. :d
@Stanelle - I know. Like I said…not feeling charitable…
EXACTLY!! I am glad you, your family, my family, my boyhood friends, those with whom I hung out, those who picked on me when we were kids and who outgrew their meanness are, ONE AND ALL, safe.
Their father was duped- “My boy is studying medicine”. Really?
The dipstick on CNN last night was wringing his hands about “the Feds not Mirandizing the suspect”, then in the next breath reminding himself that “the suspect probably wouldn’t have understood his rights anyway, being too weak.” To quote Jim Carrey in the Ace Ventura movies “DURRERRR”.
Hate is as hate does. In the end, We the People will stand strong.
I’m sure there are people saying this whole thing was a government conspiracy. They don’t know what complete idiots they sound like. In the case of parents they almost invariably say, my son couldn’t have done that. He’s a nice boy.
You probably heard what their uncle had to say. He wasn’t claiming their innocence to put it lightly.
I came back because you mentioned how this has effected your daughter. A couple of days ago I a friend of my concern over the effects of incidents like these on young people. I hope they grow to bring solutions to bare on the many hate based problems in our Nation and the world much like my generation grew up and pressured governments to weaken the possibility of nuclear war and clean up the air and the environment.
More than that though, I hope your daughter is okay and other young people and children.