Man, I can’t even believe the bombing was just last Monday, there has been so much crap it feels like WEEKS.
Lockdown has been lifted, and the suspect apprehended….and apprehended ALIVE!
Police found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding on a boat stored in a backyard on Franklin Street. Police exchanged gunfire with him before capturing him alive. Spontaneous celebrations erupted across the region, from the Boston Common to the Back Bay streets near the bombing.
The boat’s owners, a couple, spent Friday hunkered down under the stay-at-home order. When it was lifted early in the evening, they ventured outside for some fresh air and the man noticed the tarp on his boat blowing in the wind, according to their his son, Robert Duffy.
The cords securing it had been cut and there was blood near the straps. Duffy’s father called police, who swarmed the yard and had the couple evacuated, Duffy said.
After the stink of martial law in the Boston Metro area, I’m kinda glad he wasn’t killed at the scene in Chris Dorner fashion. I’m sure if he lives I’ll regret that with bullshit show trials a-la Nidal Hassan.
Also in other grim news did you know he isn’t being read his Miranda rights? He is an alleged terrorist with Al Queda ties, but he’s also a naturalized US Citizen apprehended on US soil. I just don’t see all this “wartime” crap being necessary.
I’m also not going to shed too many tears for who is certainly a very bad man, but bad men have rights as well.
Be safe out there people!
I was *sure* they were going to Dorner him. And I already wrote about the Miranda issue.
Glad that you guys are OK.
It was a great post! I advise everybody to read it!
The problem that I have is IF constitutional rights like the Miranda rights, the door to door searches, and the (for all intents and purposes) Martial law in Boston can be suspended when someone sets off a bomb, then they are not rights at all. They are now privileges that may be revoked and granted at the whim of government officials. That should scare all of us far more than the threat of a bomb.
Yep, after the initial rush in Cambridge and Watertown, I was more scared of the roving bands of SWAT teams. I was really concerned about a Chris Dorner aftermath-style shooting by the cops. Especially since the brother’s had killed one cop and put another in critical condition.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
The Authorities have Three Choices. They can declare him an Enemy Combatant and Prosecute him under the UCMJ and the Laws of War. Or he can go to Federal Court, or he can go to the Commonwealth’s Courts. All which are Constitutional.
But even Goblins need to have their Constitutional Rights available to them, or else they can get set Free.
This Mix and Match crap that is being used is NOT Good for the Republic, now and in the Future.
God Knows, this Case is going to be a Mess enough as it is. Why Fuck it up and give the Goblin a Shot at avoiding the Needle?
He was an American citizen who is not under military discipline, caught on American soil that was not under military control (neither a military base nor an area under declared martial law), for acts committed on American soil which was also not under military control, while a functioning civil courts system exists that would normally have jurisdiction.
Tsarnaev is a traitor, not an enemy combatant.
SCOTUS ruled on this a century and a half ago ago — you cannot arbitrarily substitute military tribunals for civil courts, in cases where the civil courts system is still running. The military tribunals for terrorists bit doesn’t apply to him — remember that the Hamdi v. Rumsfield ruling that tribunals for citizens accused of terrorism were OK was expressly limited to the situation of a US citizen captured by US military forces in an active combat zone overseas while engaged in active combat operations. (I.e., Hamdi basically allows US citizens to be held under traditional POW rules or the “enemy combatant” and “unlawful combatant” (Ex Parte Quinn) rules developed to address POWs who didn’t meet Geneva POW status.)
Miranda rights are universal. However there is a hole the police an use and that is public safety and the court has ruled its a narrow window. What that means is asking him if he has explosives on or near is ok, and only that, all other questions must not be asked as they are inadmissible. The fact that he was taken alive is a good thing to me as it meant
the rare and valuable restraint was applied.
Now I only want to know one thing. Why did they do that?
I don’t believe it was political, so it was some fantasy thing that they were following
like many luzers.
Eck!
They wanted him alive because they think he has something to tell him. They bent over backwards to get this clown alive.
As far as martial law goes, I was given to understand that the police could not enter your home unless you:
1 – granted them permission
2 – No one answered and there were signs of forced entry
Has anyone heard about cases where this wasn’t true, yesterday?
I saw a few tweets yesterday that were along the lines of “SWAT asked me if I WANTED them to search my home. Did not force me, didn’t come inside. Not searching illegally.”
Yeah I never heard anything about illegal searches as well.
I also didn’t hear anything about people asserting their rights. Good to hear the cops didn’t force the issue when people wanted to stay secure in their home, from cops and robbers alike.