You can tell the professionals. They’re the ones who drift away like smoke after the deed, mingling with the crowd, vanishing as if they never were.
Or maybe it will throw the cops off their scent if they hold up a convenience store, carjack a Mercedes, get into a shoot-out with cops…Yeah. There’s a twist the feds will never see coming.
And how do you “lock down” an entire city? And why? When we get a bad guy on the loose, we just gun up and hope he shows.
And for the benefit of that guy from Salon who really, really wanted this to be the work of Privileged White Males? He should be careful what he wishes for, because I could have done better than this half-asleep and I’m not even a terrorist.
What happened to, “One riot, one Ranger” – or is that only in Texas?
“…just gun up and hope he shows”
I confess–sorry, this is pure, stacked-on prurience here–I think it would have been just delicious if whoever did the bombing, having then taken flight to get back home to his latest complimentary issue of CI Quarterly, would have stumbled across the Oathkeepers / MBV event without realizing it…and then been shot by a bystander…who could not be identified because she was lost in the crowd…and the crowd of locals ain’t sayin’ nuthin.
Ah, yeah, right. This reality. Dang it, I like the other one better.
I must say, the city of Boston and local suburbs truly did lock up and stay inside. It was strange to see pictures of the city with no one there and all the stores (except Dunkin Donuts, apparently) closed. It was probably good for most people to stay off the streets in Watertown so bystanders didn’t interfere and get hurt, but on the other hand it was the one guy who left his house for a smoke who ended up finding the guy in his boat in the backyard….*outside* of the 20 block ‘police zone’.