Boston’s Progressives: We Support Our “Voluntary” Police State
by Bill Anderson
LewRockwell.com
April 23, 2013
While many of us look in horror at Boston’s destruction of what is left of the Bill of Rights, Bostonians themselves are in full congratulatory mode, as those who gave us Political Correctness now redefine the Police State, and proudly so. From the ultra-Progressive Boston Globe to the “man on the street,” Boston’s citizens are telling us that “shelter-in-place” was not martial law but rather a selfless act of voluntary cooperation with the experts. And How Dare anyone express a different viewpoint!
Lest readers think that Bostonians objected to being brutalized by paramilitary police, here are some comments from people who happily and smugly obeyed orders:
There’s a difference between paralysis and stillness. Stillness is deliberate. It was a tool – a tactical move. The police did not order us to stay in our houses – they requested it, and we complied, not because we were terrorized and not because we were sheep to the police state, but because we knew that in doing so, we left the police and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the only pieces out on the board. We wanted him captured. For us, staying indoors on Friday was no different from staying in during a winter storm so that the snowplows could clear the streets. We were giving the professionals room to work.
If there was any doubt that I lived in one of the most enlightened places on the planet, it disappeared on Friday. You tell me where else in the world having thousands of armed officers on your city’s streets is comforting? It is here, in Boston.
The Rest…HERE
