Politicker:
Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.
“The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
Mr. Bloomberg, who has come under fire for the N.Y.P.D.’s monitoring of Muslim communities and other aggressive tactics, said the rest of the country needs to learn from the attacks.
“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11,” he said.
“We have to understand that in the world going forward, we’re going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. That’s good in some sense, but it’s different from what we are used to,” he said.
The mayor pointed to the gun debate and noted the courts have allowed for increasingly stringent regulations in response to ever-more powerful weapons.
“Clearly the Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws … Here we’re going to to have to live with reasonable levels of security,” he said, pointing to the use of magnetometers to catch weapons in city schools.
What is it about these NYC mayors? Nanny Bloomberg sounds like he was channeling Rudy Ghouliani. Someone should remind him of the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin:
Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
History shows that when you trade freedom for security you end up with neither one. Freedom isn’t free.
If the preliminary (media) reports are true, once again our government ignored flashing red lights, this time regarding Tamerlan “Speedbump” Tsarnaev. So would good would giving them more power do anyway? Do you really think making air passengers remove their shoes before getting groped and X-rayed by TSA agents has made flying any safer?
Surrendering our freedom because of this terrorist bombing makes as much sense as banning pressure cookers. Neither one will keep us safe.
Walter Russell Mead:
Democracy is advanced citizenship. Some people just aren’t ready for it.
Matt Labash:
The snark is strong in this one. ;P
One of the funniest comedic exchanges. Ever.
I fully expect Obama and congress to immediately call for a ban on all pressure cookers. My grandma gave me one when I moved into my first apartment and they’ll have to kill me to get it from my cold dead hands.
At least you will need to register the sale and check the background of the person you are selling to if you ever decide to sell your pressure cooker on craigslist.
And this accomplishes the terrorist’s mission:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2be_1366536241
SHAMEFUL! I did not realize this is what was going on. This is unacceptable! And cannot happen again.
If it really happened. But it didn’t. We had this discussion last night. We have an outdoor shed we don’t lock. It came with a set of keys, but we forget where we put them. It looks like a cute little house. We keep the lawn mower and the snowblower, etc. in it. Last year a mentally incompetent person wandered away from home, and the local cops asked us if they could look in our shed to see if she was in there. It was very cold, and they were looking all of the places she might have gone in to get shelter. They had no warrant. Was that an “illegal search”? No. We could have said no. We turned on the floodlights for them. She was found down the street in someone’s garage. If the cops had asked us if they could look in there for Pothead and Speedbump, we would have said yes, too, and we wouldn’t have been surprised if this time they had weapons drawn.
{{watching the bats swirling above seldom-seen commenters head}}
If you read the comments on that link a little ways down someone says that the people in the house actually called about noises in the basement.
I guess that would make a little more sense. If they were going door to door like storm troopers why did they only pick on that one house. Apparently the answer is because the people in it heard noises.
I was listening to the BPD scanner all Thursday night. They did indeed “raid” a few locations, but there were specific reasons for targeting those addresses. The other homes were searched on the exterior and by consent on the interior. If the cops came to your door and said they were looking for a cop-killer who was last seen on foot in your neighborhood, would you cooperate?
It was my understanding that only that one neighborhood was on lockdown, but that they “encouraged” people to stay home that day. Also the buses and trains were shut down to prevent escape. Was anyone arrested for failing to stay inside? I haven’t heard of any.
Here’s a little known fact about the 4th Amendment – it only protects people who live in that home. If the cops illegally search your house and find me and you with a pound of meth, the evidence could be used against me but not you. So if the cops illegally search a home looking for a fleeing suspect who does not live there, the arrest would still be legal and any evidence they found admissible against him.
Evidently, it was not just one house.
http://www.infowars.com/shocking-footage-americans-ordered-out-of-homes-at-gunpoint-by-swat-teams/
Infowars = Alex Jones = Batshit cray cray
Then why did they forcibly pull the person outside and put his hands up in the air?
Just awful 😦
Heard this on the radio today.
Best & Worst jobs of 013 – Newspaper reporter is worst job out of 200 ranked
http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/22/dust-off-your-math-skills-actuary-is-best-job-of-2013/
It’s because so many stupid people resist the Kool-Aid. If only everyone were as gullible as Teh Won’s supporters, it’d be a breeze.
I got a rocoball yesterday from Nanny Bloomies gun control group and was wondering why now??????? And why me for God’s sake??????
robocall
They’re crawling out of the woodwork.
Incredible photos taken from someone’s home during the shootout:
http://www.getonhand.com/blogs/news/7743337-boston-bombing-suspect-shootout-pictures
Chilling.
Wow, he got some good photos.
Although I wonder why he decided to take photos instead of video with his iphone?
What a strange strategy: to run and drive TOWARD the cops. Death by suicide? And amazing that he got through the cops with guns blazing in the SUV. Looking at that typical Boston residential street, it is incredible to believe it happened “right next door” and that more people were not killed.
Maybe it was a dead end/blocked at the other end? A
FYI – I gotta take my mom to Fresno for some outpatient surgery so I’ll be gone most of the afternoon/early evening.
Good luck to her!
Bring a good book for the waiting room.
Best wishes for a safe surgery and speedy recovery.
hope your mom is ok.
Should be a good day for it. High fog cover over here on the edge of the world.
All the best to your mom. And I hope you have something tasty for her in the car. Always so hungry after starving for surgery….lol
Best wishes to your mom.She is lucky ti have such a great Son >)
TNWSS
Best wishes to your mom.
LOL via aoshq
Apparently some kid named Nate wrestled Dzhokhar in high school. Nate decided to put video of the fight on youtube.
music NSFW
Klown, when you get back, this guy needs to get sirotad again
What the Flippity flip flip!
http://nation.foxnews.com/boston-marathon-bombing/2013/04/23/un-says-boston-got-what-it-deserved
I just read that ., and I really don’t need my blood to be boiling this early in the day , but there it is , right along with Tom Fucking Brokaw heating up the temperature .
I saw your RT – thanks!
Dumb ass self-hating Westerners that cheer on terrorists from the safety of their gated liberal communities.
Yea, well this is coming from the guy who wants to take away our french fries. Bloomberg has a Napoleon complex.
Awesome article from James Kunstler yesterday.
http://kunstler.com/blog/2013/04/aftershocks.html#more
Didn’t Texas want it gold out of the fed and to be kept in Texas? I remember reading something about that a while ago
It doesn’t look like our freedoms had much to do with this attack. It looks like the Gov granted asylum and later citizenship to the wrong couple of brothers. It looks like they also ignored some warnings from the Russians and dropped the ball on some foreign travel because of a misspelled name.
Maybe if we weren’t wasting so many resources searching children and old ladies at airports or creating no fly lists or trying to restrict legal gun ownership, we could focus our attention on more likely suspects.
It’s incredible to me that Reid & the Gang of 8 are STILL pushingtheir amnesty bill.
Because apparently the system that couldn’t screen out Tamerlan when Russia was telling us point blank he was a jihadi is going to be able to screen out the bad criminals from the “good” undocumenteds before giving them a path to citizenship. My ass.
In the government’s defense, the brothers did not fit the profile of Tea Partiers.
amber graves of wane….
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/23/report-amnesty-will-transform-political-landscape-crush-republicans-in-future-elections/
That’s too true!
If pressure cookers are outlawed, only outlaws will have pressure cookers. LOL.
To cook up the beans 😆
Who are we trying to impress with our political correctness
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/23/boston-marathon-bombing-lesson-political-correctness-kills/?intcmp=HPBucket
My first experience with a pressure cooker was my last . I was living with a bunch of hippies in Mill Creek , West BY GOD Virginia in a beautiful house with a wood stove ( I can cook on a wood stove !) and someone was using the pressure cooker . It exploded . I looked at the ceiling covered in beans ( I think that is what they were) and I thought to myself , I am NEVER EVER going to have to clean up a mess like that again. Never owned one , never will . Just lazy that way
I happen to possess a WMD pressure cooker. We only use it if we’re gonna make flan – the best way way. Otherwise I find it kinda scary to use and heavy to wash.
You have more courage than I ,VM . I know people who use them regularly , love them, swear by them , but I guess I have incurable Post Traumatic Pressure Cooker Disorder .
LOL!
I had no idea they made small ones and they’re light weight. Must be aluminum? The pressure cookers we’ve used are all huge, heavy, and made for canning quart jars. I couldn’t figure out how you would fit one in a backpack and not have it appear to be dragging on the ground, but I guess they make small ones.
LOL. Love this. NY State Sen Greg Ball vs Piers Morgan
Piers: Can you stop being a jerk?
Ball: You get paid for it.
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/senator-tells-tv-host-he-gets-paid-being-jerk/nXTdM/
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/23/russian-intel-tsarnaev-met-with-suspected-chechen-militant-several-times/
but but backtrack said there was no foreign involvment
Greta made a good point last night, Big Sis declared there was “no foreign involvement” before we even knew who they were.
I can’t stop thinking about the poor parents of Speedbump’s wife. Can you imagine? “Mom, Dad, I’m dropping out of school, converting to Islam, and marrying an unemployed terrorist who abuses me.”
Uhg… 😦
There has got to be more national discussion on what family members and parents need to do to provide the necessary self-esteem support for maturng young women that gives their psyches enough development time to get past the “bonding on the first brute that pays them any attention” period. I have nothing.
Loving fathers. A girl who has her father’s love and approval won’t feel the need to seek it elsewhere.
I used to think that, too. But it’s more than that….
Yup
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/04/mother-of-boston-bombers-tamerlan-is-still-alive-video/
mom seems to be a tad out there
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/04/tamerlan-tsarnaev-eyed-in-connection-to-gruesome-2011-triple-murder/
a second look at 2011 murders
WTH Mitt?
http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/Pressure-Cooker-Causes-Bomb-Scare-at-Grocery-Store/-/14322302/19849340/-/5sn2y8z/-/index.html
is this going to be the new thing?
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-paradoxes-of-the-boston-bombings/?singlepage=true
Victor Davis Hanson
I think the POTUS and his admin need to be accused of being soft on terrorism . We have to fight the propaganda and soft on terrorism policies of this administration that are causing the deaths of innocent Americans .
Honk! However, POTUS and his enablers will cry, “You are politicizing terrorism.” No. Shit. Sherlock.
And our snswer Is, ,”No, just cowardice”.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/lessons-of-boston.php
so good questions in this article.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/george-bush-approval-rating/2013/04/23/id/500897
backtrack increases Bush approval rating
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/23/washington-state-dem-gov-signs-law-banning-use-of-words-penmanship-freshman-fishermen-for-being-sexist/
a short timeout for head banging
Piers bitchslapped:
hearing cancelled and there will be a press conference soon in Ricin case. No physical evidence was found. so this should be interesting.
evidence showing guy was framed by a neighbor with a grudge
Iowa Hawk
The same people who demand conversations about the violence of US culture want to ban mentioning the violence of any other culture.
Mark Fuckerberg just shared a “status ” from a guy named Mike Hudack
This is the kind of total and easily refutable bullshit that passes for thinking on the left these days . Pity for the poor terrorist ? Ignore or water down the fact that Russia warned the USA about this monster ?
And Fuckerberg sends it out to billions .
This is wacky
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/23/chicago-school-suspends-teacher-for-showing-pictures-of-weapons-to-students-screwdrivers-wrenches-and-pliers/
just unbelievable . another instance showing the difference between the law and justice
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Gosnell-Abortion-Deaths-Charges-Dropped-204302641.html
more on this story
Of course, it’s just speculation but Speedbump’s widow avoiding the feds doesn’t bode well for not having previous knowledge of the attacks.
http://nation.foxnews.com/boston-marathon-bombing/2013/04/23/mum-s-widow-feds-stay-near?intcmp=fly
And once again, a British tab seems to have better info. The widow released a statement that she was cooperating with the investigation. Statement at link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313473/Bombing-suspect-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-called-wife-slut-prostitute-admitted-slapping-girlfriend-domestic-violence-arrest.html
I thought the meme about how she was “avoiding the feds” was kind of funny because it was such BS. When the feds want you, the feds get you….especially if you’re sitting home at a known address surrounded by the media.
here’s the tweet
https://twitter.com/AP/status/326744234273161216
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/23/eighth-grader-arrested-over-nra-shirt-returns-to-school-in-same-shirt
good for them. they have not been indoctrinated
http://nation.foxnews.com/homeland-security/2013/04/23/napolitano-saudi-student-wrong-place-wrong-time
saudi kid was in wrong place at wrong time per big sis.
I am 21 years old and look like Linda Darnell
You, I’d believe. JNap, not so much.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/23/george-soros-spends-almost-7-million-to-push-gun-control/
soros enemy of the world
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/tsarnaev_the_fraud.html
obtained citizenship under fraud
…but that’s not important.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/23/san-francisco-restores-taxpayer-funding-for-6-foot-tall-the-healthy-penis-mascot/
wonder who applied for the this mascot job. Can you see on the resume former job BIg Dick
only person in the country who actually gets paid for being a big dick
http://www.therightscoop.com/walid-shoebat-exclusive-the-boston-bombers-radicalization-myth-vs-fact/
interesting article
That was interesting! I think there is so much we don’t understand. I also think religion/politics are very important in an investigation and in protecting yourself, but some people just choose to be evil. I don’t buy this radicalization stuff, as if a completely innocent person was brainwashed against their will and now believe it’s okay to blow up innocent people.
Did you all see this story? Tsarnaev is now suspected in a 9/11/2011 triple murder, one of the men murdered was his training partner.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bomb-suspect-eyed-connection-2011-triple-murder/story?id=19015628#.UXdeHsqvOM8