Boston and surrounding communities are in recovery mode
today. Yesterday we were all very pissed
off and extremely frustrated. It was a
long day of conflicting news reports that turned ugly quickly. Our local news media started painting the
younger terrorist as some kind of all-American boy who was under the influence
of his big, bad, dumb older brother.
As the day progressed, and as real eyewitnesses came forward
with video footage as proof, that turned out to not be the case, as if any of
us here in Boston believed the media bullshit, anyway.
Turns out that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev not only crafted bombs and
threw them at police and blew up people at the marathon and engaged in multiple
firefights with police including two in crowded Watertown neighborhoods, but he
also ran over his brother's dying body with a stolen SUV.
Yes, he's definitely what the media would call an
"all-American boy."
And while we're at it, maybe Russia should revert to its
Cold War tactics. Remember when someone
in the Soviet Union (or one of its subsidiary countries) would say something
controversial? Neither does anyone else
because that person would disappear to Siberia… if he was lucky enough to
survive the curbside-to-curbside trip.
Many didn't.
Now, to prove that I truly do support the Constitution that
I so ardently defend, the kid is entitled to due process. Right?
I mean, he became an American citizen last September 11th,
right? Yeah, like nobody sees the irony in that, kid. Personally, and this is just my opinion, I'd
rather he bleed out slowly so we don't have to waste valuable tax dollars on
his ACLU defense fund. But that's just
me. See?
I still mentioned the ACLU, so I'm still recognizing his Constitutional
rights. I can be a good American, too.
Here's where I don't get it, though. If people don't like America, if you hate the
USA whether you were born here or we nicely opened our homeland to you, then
WTF are you doing here? Seriously. GO HOME.
No, really. We'll take up
collections and buy you plane tickets to go back where you came from. Hell, we'll even send you somewhere else, if
you like. But if your sole purpose in
life is to hate and kill Americans, you should start trekking back to your own
country. Now. Today.
Yesterday, if possible.
Look, we don't ask you to be our best friends, we don’t
demand that you learn our language (but, shit, we really wish you would so
maybe we can actually speak with you), we don't even ask you to get a job. But it's pretty much a given that if you hate
us, well then, you probably might want to get your ass out of our country
before we hand your ass back to you on a cardboard platter.
In the meantime, though, we'll let some in the media play Suspect #2
as some kind of hero and Suspect #1 as a martyr. That's what they wanted all along. Personally, we citizens of Boston and surrounding areas call them killers,
terrorists, undesirables. But we would
never call them "all-American."
We'll let the uninformed media and the ACLU take care of that.
Boston strong.
