Dr. Eowyn:
A year after the Boston Marathon bombings, a pervasive surveillance system over the entire city of Boston is in place. Nor is Boston the only U.S. city being watched.
That, and the militarization of local police and federal agencies that include the Railroad Retirement Board (!), add up to a disquieting picture of America as a police state.
H/t FOTM’s CSM
Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
On April 19, 2013, during a manhunt in Boston suburb Watertown, MA, for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, police and federal agents spent the day storming people’s homes and performing illegal searches
Heavily armed SWAT police ripped people from their homes at gunpoint,marched the residents out with their hands raised above their heads in submission, and then stormed the homes to perform their warrantless searches.
This was part of a larger operation that involved a total lockdown of Watertown. A No-Fly Zone was declared over the town of 31,915; roads were barricaded; vehicle traffic was prohibited. People were ordered to stay indoors; businesses were told not to open. National Guard soldiers helped with the lockdown, and were photographed checking IDs of pedestrians on the streets, while SWAT teams searched house to house, all without a warrant.
Giuseppe Macri reports for The Daily Caller, April 17, 2014, that a…
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