Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the
streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown
out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause.
Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.
These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather the
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scenes just over a week ago in Boston as the United States got a
taste of martial law. The ostensible reason for the military-style
takeover of parts of Boston was that the accused perpetrator of a
horrific crime was on the loose. The Boston bombing provided the
opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police
investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This
unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack
itself.
What has been sadly forgotten in all the celebration of the capture
of one suspect and the killing of his older brother is that the police
state tactics in Boston did absolutely nothing to catch them. While the
media crowed that the apprehension of the suspects was a triumph of the
new surveillance state – and, predictably, many talking heads and
Members of Congress called for even more government cameras pointed at
the rest of us – the fact is none of this caught the suspect. Actually,
it very nearly gave the suspect a chance to make a getaway.
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