Boston

I despise terrorists as much as anyone else. But yesterday's manhunt in Boston was hysterical and disturbing. Militarized police patrolled the streets of an American city with armored vehicles and battle gear, treating every living person as a suspected criminal, going door to door in a neighborhood with the weapons of war. Do we accept that people in government uniforms have the right to "lockdown" an entire city and repeal the Bill of Rights while looking for suspected murderers? After over a decade of war and violations of personal liberty, have we become completely desensitized to this madness? This is not what a free society looks like.