Are you a sheeple?
Do you swallow whatever you’re told by the government and the media, without thought or question?
Have you accepted as Gospel truth what we’ve been told — that the two Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, indeed perpetrated the two terrible bombings at last Monday’s Boston Marathon?
Do you remember what we were told four days ago on Tuesday, April 17, 2013? — that law enforcement had identified a suspect from surveillance video at the Lord & Taylor department store near the second explosion site, showing frame-by-frame the suspect placing a black backpack (with bomb inside)? We thought the suspect would be brought to Boston’s Moakley Federal Courthouse that afternoon. For hours, I watched the live coverage on WCVB Boston. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Instead, we were told that the courthouse had to be evacuated because of a bomb threat and that the scheduled “briefing” would be postponed. (See my post of April 17, 2013, “Suspect identified in Boston bombings.”)
The next day, that was all forgotten. No postponed briefing took place. The media never returned to the Moakley Federal Courthouse. And we heard nothing more about that Lord & Taylor surveillance video.
It was as if April 17 never happened.
Marcus Carey is an attorney with 30 years of experience. Passionate about our First Amendment rights, he is also a talk show host, public speaker, and op-ed writer.
The following are excerpts from his essay, in which Carey asks questions about that surveillance tape and more — questions that every American should ask.
For FOTM’s other posts on the bombings, go to our new “Boston Marathon Bombings” page.
H/t FOTM’s CSM
~Eowyn
Special Report: Manhunt in Boston Raises Questions For All Our Protection
By Marcus Carey – BluegrassBulletin.com – April 19, 2013
I have 33 years experience as a lawyer and over 40 years of experience in political science. I have spent the better part of the last decade making a careful study of politicians, news and information delivery systems. I question everything, I am trained to value hard evidence above opinion and I am a cynic.
The story about the Boston bombing suspects and the manhunt for them is riddled with holes. The evidence of their guilt requires that each of us accept the narrative of the FBI and the single item of proof that law enforcement says they have which is the smoking gun, is the only item of proof they have never shown to anyone.
Are they guilty? Did they do the bombing? Were they the ones involved in a firefight with police just after midnight? I don’t know. But one thing I do know is this. I’ve seen no proof other than the results, heard from no eye witness nor seen anybody who was involved in the firefight answer a single question.
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So here is what I’d like to see.
I’d like to see the video that the FBI says it has showing the suspects, or one of them, placing a backpack on the ground at the spot where the explosion occurred and walking away. That is the key piece of evidence that they say separated these two guys from the rest of the thousands of other people in the crowd, some of whom had backpacks. If you have it, show me.
Second, I’d like to hear from the guy who was car jacked. I’d like to hear how he was car jacked at knife point, how he identified the two men, what they were carrying and how he escaped. Bombs, IED’s, home made grenades, pipe bombs, rifles, ammunition and all that other stuff is bulky and weighs alot. I’d like to hear him describe the incident.
I’d like to see the surveillance video from the store that was robbed and see the time stamp on the photo of the younger suspect that is apparently the subject of the manhunt. I want to know who robbed the store.
I would like to hear from any eyewitness to the fire fight that ended up with one of the suspects dead. I want to know who identified the suspects and how, before one of them was found dead.
I’d like to know how far from the firefight the vehicle used to get away was found after they allege that the suspect which is the subject of the manhunt, fled on foot.
I’d like a straight answer (and testimony under oath at some point) from an official regarding the mother’s allegations that the FBI “owned” her son, the dead one, for the last five years.
I’d like to have sworn testimony that no other unexploded IED’s or bombs were found in Boston on Monday.
I might have other questions after these, but for now, I am stunned that no news reporter has demanded to see the video of the suspects setting down the backpack that exploded which is the sole reason given for why these two guys are the “only suspects”. Seems like a reasonable request to me.
We might get these answers now that the second suspect is in custody. That is if he survives his injuries, and ever talks. And why do we need these answers?
Because what we were told was used as a reason to kill an American citizen, on American soil. It was cited as the reason for engaging in a martial law drill a “shelter in place” event, until dark that is.
And since the media has been wall to wall with the entire story all day and largely responsible (as Mike Tobin at FoxNews admitted) for being used by the police as “a mechanism to tell people to stay in their houses”, one would think that a responsible journalist would at least want to show the public that they were not “played” by the FBI. That video of the suspects setting down a backpack that later exploded would go a long way to establishing credibility for all involved. It would even quiet some of the conspiracy nuts.
Once again, I’m not defending these guys, I’m not accusing law enforcement of any wrongdoing and I’m not saying that I don’t believe good, hard working people who stand in front of cameras and tell me stuff.
But I have been around a long time. I’ve seen more than my share of witness accounts that turned out to be wrong. I’ve seen plenty of people lie on purpose and some people tell things that aren’t just quite true because of bias, lack of perspective, wishful thinking, inattention and confusion.
We’ve all heard of the “fog of war”. All I want is a breath of fresh air, a clear view and transparency.
The death sentence requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Since they’ve chosen to try this case in the court of public opinion, I think we deserve nothing less.
If they try the remaining case in a court of law, then perhaps we will see the evidence and know the truth. But that might be a long time from now. I think we deserve some proof, now.
Why do I ask for these things? It’s for all our protection.
