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Reader comment on item: The Boston Bombing and the Case for FBI Stings

Submitted by D. Hutcheson, Apr 22, 2013 20:17

One need only talk with the people who are featured in and produced the films Obsession and The Third Jihad to understand the Jihadis either Al Qaeda or other closely related groups have declared war on the United States of America and the rest of the Western World.

They have attacked us on our own soil using our own planes, laws, and equipment to take out the Twin Towers in 01 and now the bombing at the Boston Marathon. I am disgusted when I hear people like the Boston Police Commissioner say things like we "don't want to become a police state". Everything in this life is a trade off and a little inconvenience in a world of terrorists that hate us is not so much to ask in order to avoid these types of attacks.

We did not head their warnings in 1993 and in 2001, we had been warned that Osama Bin Ladin was organizing an attack against us and did not take him seriously.

I've heard "experts" say that terrorist attacks are declining around the world, but that is because the US and its allies are cracking down. Edward Cline has a point about taking off the leash of the FBI.

The 911 Commission gave the Bush Administration published for the American people a list of things we needed to do to make our country more safe and the Bush Administration failed to implement them all.

I have not understood this bravado about "police state," "civil liberties," and "freedoms" put out their by both Politicians and Law Enforcement such as the Boston Police Chief. This is nothing wrong with protecting our citizens, in fact that is what law enforcement personnel are paid to do.

Had we blocked the marathon's path from access from anyone who did not clear one of many check points that could have been set up this would not have happened. When I travel to other countries I see security at their airports and at events.

We have been told by experts that we need to take notice and put precautions in place and I cannot figure out why we have not taken the necessary steps and precautions that would prevent these things from happening.

I myself do not consider it an inconvenience to go through a back ground check to get a gun, or a Secret Service check point when I go to see my president, or any other security measure that will make me, my family, and fellow Americans safe when attending public events.

I applaud the Boston Police, the FBI, the military, and all the other agencies that came together and found and caught those responsible for the Marathon Bombings and only hope that this incident will lead them to change they way they approach security at the Marathon, their public events, and that it leads Americans to demand that we take a better approach to protecting us at public venues and events, it is a very different world.

D. Hutcheson

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