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Boston Marathon bombing suspect caught after day-long manhunt

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WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police captured a 19-year-old man suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother after a day-long manhunt on Friday that closed down the city and turned a working-class suburb into a virtual armed camp.

They found him hiding in a boat in someone's driveway, which leads me to make the following statement:

Someone is unclear on the concept of boats. They are useless as a getaway vehicle unless they are in the water. In the driveway, not so good.

Article is here.
 
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They found him hiding in a boat in someone's driveway, which leads me to make the following statement:

Someone is unclear on the concept of boats. They are useless as a getaway vehicle unless they are in the water. In the driveway, not so good.

Article is here.

I actually thought that hiding place with pretty clever. Had we not been so diligent in asking for people's help and publicized the hell out of law enforcement's ongoing efforts to capture this guy, that property owner may have never walked back to his boat and noticed blood, pulled the tarp back and called police.

I think law enforcement did an absolutely outstanding job of maximizing "the power of the people." We couldn't have asked for more. They are to be heartily commended.

Hopefully, the way they handled this national (albeit local) emergency will become a template for the future.
 
Hopefully, the way they handled this national (albeit local) emergency will become a template for the future.

Locking down a city because of 2 people is ludicrous. It's letting the terrorists win.
 
Locking down a city because of 2 people is ludicrous. It's letting the terrorists win.

Does it really look like these two brothers won?

Locking down the city prevented an escape of the criminal by blending in with "the crowd".
 
Locking down a city because of 2 people is ludicrous. It's letting the terrorists win.

"Letting the terrorists win" is a handy slogan and means nothing. The terrorists only win if they keep killing innocent people. Not if innocents do what they can to catch their sorry asses. Further, they didn't lock down the city. They asked people to stay home.
 
"Letting the terrorists win" is a handy slogan and means nothing.

I disagree.

The terrorists only win if they keep killing innocent people.

I disagree. You are forgetting that terrorism is not just killing innocents but for political purpose. If that political purpose is achieved, they have won.

Further, they didn't lock down the city. They asked people to stay home.

I have not personally investigated the claims of "orders" and "lock downs". I'm not sure just what exactly was enacted, but I can tell you the result: Boston was turned into a ghost town for a day by two people, causing the loss of millions of dollars in business and massive inconvenience for a million people. If that's how it's gonna work, I'm pretty sure I could shut down half the major cities in the US with less than a company of men.
 
I disagree.

I disagree. You are forgetting that terrorism is not just killing innocents but for political purpose. If that political purpose is achieved, they have won.

I have not personally investigated the claims of "orders" and "lock downs". I'm not sure just what exactly was enacted, but I can tell you the result: Boston was turned into a ghost town for a day by two people, causing the loss of millions of dollars in business and massive inconvenience for a million people. If that's how it's gonna work, I'm pretty sure I could shut down half the major cities in the US with less than a company of men.

We're just going to have to disagree on this one. The terrorists hardly won. If you think they did, I think you need a new yardstick.
 
We're just going to have to disagree on this one. The terrorists hardly won. If you think they did, I think you need a new yardstick.

2 people turning a city into a ghost town for a day is pretty good work in my book. As I noted, with a company of men I could cripple the US if that's how it's gonna go.
 
They found him hiding in a boat in someone's driveway, which leads me to make the following statement:

Someone is unclear on the concept of boats. They are useless as a getaway vehicle unless they are in the water. In the driveway, not so good.

Article is here.

Classic post dude.
 
They found him hiding in a boat in someone's driveway, which leads me to make the following statement:

Someone is unclear on the concept of boats. They are useless as a getaway vehicle unless they are in the water. In the driveway, not so good.

Article is here.

His home country is land locked you know go easy on him.
 
2 people turning a city into a ghost town for a day is pretty good work in my book. As I noted, with a company of men I could cripple the US if that's how it's gonna go.

Concur. Its a "Long War" and they know how to practice it.
 
2 people turning a city into a ghost town for a day is pretty good work in my book. As I noted, with a company of men I could cripple the US if that's how it's gonna go.

Look, there is no doubt that our economy could be crippled by assholes like this. But our economy is only part of the story. The rest of the story is our spirit. And on that side of the ledger? We won. If you know any way our country could withstand regular (albiet they rare) terrorist attacks and not be profoundly effected from an economic standpoint, please let us know.
 
Look, there is no doubt that our economy could be crippled by assholes like this. But our economy is only part of the story. The rest of the story is our spirit. And on that side of the ledger? We won. If you know any way our country could withstand regular (albiet they rare) terrorist attacks and not be profoundly effected from an economic standpoint, please let us know.

Let's see... Miami, NY, Chicago, LA, Houston, Dallas, some of those big fly-over cities...

What's that, 20 men?

Give me another 50 and I'll shut down the whole country. 2 platoons bringing the US to its knees. That's the precedence we've set.
 
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At least no one was waterboarded nor was an army of Wayne LaPierre-type Barnie Fife's needed to apprehend "white-hat guy." Indeed, the subject was taken alive, due process will ensue, and he didn't become BBQ like other another recent famous American manhunt.
 
At least no one was waterboarded

The three top terrorists in custody were waterboarded for verifiable information (not confessions) in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, representing a ticking time bomb scenario. Get over it!
 
Let's see... Miami, NY, Chicago, LA, Houston, Dallas, some of those big fly-over cities...

What's that, 20 men?

Give me another 50 and I'll shut down the whole country. 2 platoons bringing the US to its knees. That's the precedence we've set.

We've set no precedent. Each occurrence will be handled in its own way. If you think terrorists planting bombs at public events should be handled differently? Please share your wisdom. You seem to think they should be handled as any other killing of three and maiming of 170. You know, like with nonchalance. What's your plan? Oh. You don't have one.

If terrorists start throwing bottle bombs at Starbuck's outdoor seating areas, planting bombs in shopping malls, kidnapping school children on their buses as they get taken to/from school, committing suicide with bomb vests at sporting events -- then we will be brought to our knees economically. There's nothing we can do about that. That's a fact.

But here? In Boston? We won.
 
What's your plan? Oh. You don't have one.

My plan is the same as everyone else - catch them. And I object to locking down a city just because of 2 guys. I don't think the lockdown was necessary, I think it was an overreaction and will serve to embolden crazies.

Statistically speaking, those 2 guys were insignificant were it not for the ghost town they (actually, we) created.
 
My plan is the same as everyone else - catch them. And I object to locking down a city just because of 2 guys. I don't think the lockdown was necessary, I think it was an overreaction and will serve to embolden crazies.

Statistically speaking, those 2 guys were insignificant were it not for the ghost town they (actually, we) created.

It was a terrorist attack. The first in a long, long time. There was no lockdown. The coppers asked people to stay home. Asked businesses to close. They chose to do so. I don't call that a lockdown, I call that public cooperation.

Are you so anxious to throw mud on your own country that you look for reasons to denigrate its heroic efforts in this particular instance? I'm impatient with people like you. You are more concerned with having an argument than celebrating the heroic efforts of law enforcement. Our system worked. Absolutely positively perfectly. Boston did one helluva job. You don't think so? You want to find fault with them? Talk to the hand.
 
My plan is the same as everyone else - catch them. And I object to locking down a city just because of 2 guys. I don't think the lockdown was necessary, I think it was an overreaction and will serve to embolden crazies.

Statistically speaking, those 2 guys were insignificant were it not for the ghost town they (actually, we) created.


Oh puhleeze, enough of the dramatics. The city was shut down for one day. We had our city shut down by Mt St Helens volcano years ago and we seemed to have survived okay.

This didn't turn into another 3 week manhunt like the DC Sniper. They got them.

There will undoubtedly be more to come and we will have to sweep them up and toss in the garbage where they belong.
 
I think it was an overreaction and will serve to embolden crazies.

I live about 30 miles from Boston in NE Mass. There were hundreds if not thousands of local, state and federal Law Enforcement Officers hunting this guy down like a feral dog. I've never seen a dragnet like this in my life, and they did a spectacular job. If you think something like this emboldens anybody, you're nuts.
 
If you think something like this emboldens anybody, you're nuts.

I'm not nuts. 2 guys shutting down a major city is one hell of a job. You gotta admit that.
 
I'm not nuts. 2 guys shutting down a major city is one hell of a job. You gotta admit that.

Then unifying an entire community in the streets when it was over.
 
Then unifying an entire community in the streets when it was over.

Pfft, a sports game does that for Boston most years.

I remember the days post 9/11. For at least two weeks, people were nice in traffic, in stores, everything. It may have lasted a month before people went back to crapping on each other.
 
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