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merrily

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1. EPIC FAIL. He was on the watch list. He was interviewed. Government made the wrong call.
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:25 AM
Jun 2016

Same with the Tsarnaevs. And in both instances, government waved its own error away and we all let government get away with waving away its own deadly errors.

For that matter, government had tons of info on the 911 terrorists. And instead of taking responsibility, government gave us the ironically-named Patriot Act, Homeland Security, militarized state and local police, cameras on our streets, etc.

In any event, neither the Boston Marathon bombing nor Orlando nor even 911 gave government a reason to encroach further on the tiny remaining shreds of our Fourth Amendment rights.

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