Thank you for correcting me on the martial spelling but it could go either way!! Lol.
Yep, it could.
There has to be a nefarious reason? How about... trust us, we're the government.
I'm asking about the specific events you brought up.
I get the feeling that they view this as an opportunity to exploit the public safety exemption. They think they can get away with it in this case because of public sentiment and set a precedence going forward.
Let them get away with it once .... they do it again without concern for the actual law. To me, this begins to set a dangerous precedent where every time there's a hint of terrorist activity, we're going to allow a martial law area to be declared. As that happens over and over again, we could eventually drift into a situation where we're on continual alert and continually in a military law situation. I don't expect that to happen but... this is another step in that direction. It's all about "conditioning" the public to accept this kind of booey.
I'm still not getting the connection between the search for the bombing suspects and some widespread government scheme. Do you really believe the Boston police were following some widespread secret Federal "conditioning" plan instead of trying to apprehend the bombers?
This may be an open and shut case but that doesn't make it any different from any other murder(s) other than the amount of people involved.
Actually, it
is different. For that matter, there have been other violent attacks, not terrorist related, that had more fatalities. Think about Sandy Hook. So the number of casualties isn't the point.
However, Sandy Hook was a
personal attack by a nutcase. It wasn't a political or religious group "statement" by a terrorist who has enemy alliances.
Follow the procedure laid out by our great Constitution. We can hang him from the flag pole on the steps of the court house when its over.
Well,
that certainly wouldn't be following Constitutional procedure.
I'm sure you knew about these exercises but just in case...
"conducting training exercises over Miami and elsewhere in the county. The exercise includes military helicopters firing machine-gun blanks while flying over highways and buildings. This YouTube video shows helicopters strafing highways with blank rounds near the Adrian Arts center. There are reports of similar actions in Houston From the Houston article: 'if you see the helicopters or hear gunfire, it's only a drill.'"
OK, it's an exercise. Maybe they should have informed the people better, and maybe plan better but it certainly isn't any secret plot. If it were a secret, they'd practice it somewhere less public. Think about it. If they wanted to hide what they're doing they'd pick someplace less alert than Miami! The fact that it was on Youtube and the news proves that.
If something sneaky is going on, we wouldn't know about it.