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04-29-2013, 12:43 PM
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Former Rep. Ron Paul said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombings was scarier than the bombing itself, which killed three and wounded more than 250.
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” Paul, a Texas Republican, wrote today on the website of the libertarian writer Lew Rockwell. “This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”
Paul said the scenes of the house-to-house search for the younger bombing suspect in suburban Watertown, Mass., were reminiscent of a “military coup in a far off banana republic.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/ron-paul-boston-comments-90737.html#ixzz2RsXH0a4z
more at the link.
One interesting thing is that now Ron is not running for something there seems complete agreement that he didn't write the newsletters, now they all imply or assert that Rockwell wrote them (he's said he didn't, either, for the record). I hope a good portion of those reading these articles are startled by the change, since the pretense was that Ron wrote them, all through the campaign.
Former Rep. Ron Paul said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombings was scarier than the bombing itself, which killed three and wounded more than 250.
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” Paul, a Texas Republican, wrote today on the website of the libertarian writer Lew Rockwell. “This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”
Paul said the scenes of the house-to-house search for the younger bombing suspect in suburban Watertown, Mass., were reminiscent of a “military coup in a far off banana republic.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/ron-paul-boston-comments-90737.html#ixzz2RsXH0a4z
more at the link.
One interesting thing is that now Ron is not running for something there seems complete agreement that he didn't write the newsletters, now they all imply or assert that Rockwell wrote them (he's said he didn't, either, for the record). I hope a good portion of those reading these articles are startled by the change, since the pretense was that Ron wrote them, all through the campaign.