So much for the domestic terrorism meme.

We just learned that these two animals have been in the US since they were 9 and 15 respectively. They presumably did not come here and live on their own at that age. So does that mean that they have family here? Like, immediate family who are still here now ...?

Monque: "We just learned that these two animals have been in the US since they were 9 and 15 respectively"

I guess that means that their identities are known.

Mike, the 'masses' believe what they are told by the media. Critical thought is in short supply. And the media follows some distinct rules nowadays:

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Hitler

See Obamacare

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Lenin

See Benghazi

And if you like your doctor, you can keep him!

See all of the above

And to brighten you up, one from a real leader:

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it, and hell where they already have it. - Ronald Reagan

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it, and hell where they already have it. - Ronald Reagan"

Great post Lance. I highly recommend a visit to the Reagan Museum in Simi Valley. I was there last week and it was inspiring. The country under Hussein Obama has changed so radically. The contrast was striking and quite bittersweet. We are living in a different country now. HusseinCare is symbolic of the country's lurch to socialism. It is the Trojan Horse of a great country in decline.

God bless the Police (union members) that caught them.

"God bless the Police (union members)'

Yes Jim great point...if they were not union members the guy would still be shutting down a major metropolitan area....just like all the soldiers fighting in all our wars...oh wait...they aren't union. Can we get a local chairman of the Teamsters dispatched?

Am I the only one concerned about civil liberties? From the facts known to me, these guys are "mass murderers". Further information may develop, they may in fact be "Islamic Terrorists". We have accustomed Boston to a "lock down", which will make it easier in the future. We have decided that there is a "public safety" exception to Miranda (there may well be,and perhaps there should be, but I have never heard of it). This suggests to many that more arrests will be concerned with "public safety". Kidnappers for instance. There is now some question whether they should be tried as "criminals", or face a military tribunal. There may well be facts unknown to me, but pending developments they are criminals.

Please so not mistake this to suggest that approve of their actions in any way.

There is a "public safety" exception to the Miranda rule but it is limited to questions designed to identify and remove immediate threats to public safety. The case that created it concerned a defendant who had discarded a gun while being chased by police. The police asked him where the gun was without reading his rights. The court held that a loaded gun lying around for someone to find constituted an immediate threat and the interest in recovering it outweighed the interest in informing the suspect of his rights.

It seems to me that it's premature to decide how to handle Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. If he was associated with Al Qaeda or one of its offshoots than he could be turned over to the military, although he doesn't necessarily have to be. If he and his brother acted on their own, even if motivated by jihadist ideology, then he should be treated as a regular criminal defendant, just like Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolph or Ted Kaczynski.

NYPost now reporting that the FBI is close to identifying the marathon bomber. Their sources tag it to a second Elvis impersonator ...

/ridicule