How Absurd: 8 Crazy Reactions, Ridiculous Conclusions, and Dumb Media Behavior Coming out of the Boston Bombings

Bostonians were shocked and allow it to unfold—because what individual can stand up to such totalitarian power? And media organization after media organization called for more of it—embracing the security state mentality and its huge overreaction. A lone nineteen year old is on the run—not a foreign army or team of undercover Al Queda operatives. Nonetheless, police and political leaders disrupt and control the lives of millions.

One must ask if the manhunt that shut down an entire city to catch one 19-year-old on the run—who was found hiding and cowering in a backyard—did more to terrorize Bostonians than the attack on the Boston marathon itself.

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