At least that has been my strong impression from the searches (computer searches, that is!) I’ve done.

People were motivated to cooperate. If a homicidal bomber was in my neighborhood hiding, I’d be happy to voluntarily welcome a SWAT team into my home to look around, and thus eliminate my home from contention. I don’t think that means I’ve entered the fascist-compliant mindset. The question is how much force and threat was used when people refused. And of course some people probably felt they couldn’t refuse, even if they could—after all, it’s an armed SWAT team.

And there’s nothing special about the people of Watertown in this respect, IMHO. I’m sure some of them have guns in their homes, as well. Why this image of them all cowering, gunless, in their homes? I even know some liberals who own guns, by the way—quite a few, actually.

http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/OIS.pdf

Note the “bunch shooting” analysis for LA county on pg 9. One officer involved it is 3.59 shots fired with 51% hits; 2 officers is 4.98 shots and 23% hits, more then two is 6.48 shots and 9% hits.

Neo said: “The videos (mostly a single video, by the way) of SWAT teams storming a home are not identified as having occurred as part of the reaction to the bomber at all, except by some blogs spreading the video around.”

Today, Henninger said in the WSJ: ” The citizens of Boston and its suburbs allowed massively armed SWAT teams to enter their homes, order residents out and eventually find the bullet-riddled Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying half-dead in a boat.”

I am not sure whether Neo is concerned about “blogs spreading videos around” or actual SWAT teams and their numbers and conduct. I am concerned about Citizens v. Government, and that extends to people v. SWAT. I am not concerned about a “single blog”. It is ironic that blogess Neo should express such concern.

But, now that the settlement has been announced perhaps someone will be. Unfortunately, the public, as is often the case, has shown little interest in the debacle that occurred here. By the way, another innocent citizen had his truck shot up about the same time, although I don’t think he was wounded. Dozens of shots were fired without hitting him.

It is worse than this one episode, however. The number of shootings by police of unarmed persons in the greater LA area has become nearly epidemic. By report, the police always feel threatened in some way or other, but it is clear that there is now a mentality of shoot early in any confrontation. Even when the shootee is greatly outnumbered. I don’t know why we spend so much money on tasers, mace, pepper spray and truncheons.

I am rather pleased to report that the two women in the shot up pick-up just settled with the police department for $4.2 million.

Of course, in situations like that, it’s the taxpayers who end up paying the settlement. Have the police officers involved faced any sanction or punishment?

A civilian who misidentified and shot up a truck full of innocents would be facing prison time. It’s just another example of different sets of laws for the ruling class/government employees vs. the peasantry.

The Dorner case played out in the area where I am located. There were a lot of really bad aspects to this whole even, besides the actions of Dorner himself. I am rather pleased to report that the two women in the shot up pick-up just settled with the police department for $4.2 million. It is discouraging to know, as in the Boston situation, just how many rounds of ammunition the police fired before they hit their target. One good lesson for innocent people, no matter who you are, you do not want to be anywhere near when a cop pulls his gun.

Reality: They all ran and hid in their basements. The entire city practically shut down. Thousands of cops were searching for a wounded teenager and the brave Bostonians had to cower and wonder how effeminate they had become by giving up their natural rights to self-defense and the preservation of their own lives.

It stands to reason. Liberals justify killing babies and call it “choice”. They won’t defend the most innocent lives; why should they defend their own?

They don’t.

Let’s give the city a medal of honor for cowering in fear. It’s a long long way from the frontier spirit.