Gramps
Mayor
I am inclined to think that catching the culprits in the Marathon bombing is only a matter of time. Solutions are sophisicated today compared to days of yore, so much, that they dwarf the time when Ness was chasing gangsters around on country roads in Ford sedans.
I keep reminding people how they are on camera almost every step they take when they leave home and it's true. We have no idea yet how many pictures or tapes haven't been examined by people who have been specifically trained to sort through them in search of repetitious individuals that pop up again and again. Not to mention they government's call to find people who inadvertently snapped a pic of someone on a cell phone while they believed they were only taking a photo of a friend or a contestant in the race.
There is a plus to this "big brother" thing if we can look past the problem of infringing on our personal rights to privacy long enough to see it. It's sort of kin to the weapons thingy that's got us tied in a knot at this time. At what point do our rights exceed a right to life of those killed by lunatics with a vengence?
Any person who ever served in the military knows how to make a homemade bomb if they paid attention to instructors during training. That's a lot of suspects. But cameras can narrow the chase and can become iron clad evidence when experts in that field put the pieces of the puzzle together.
I doubt the negative side protects the guilty from being fingered so much as our judicial system that lets them rot in prison for years on end to avoid going to trial and then appealing decisions while their victims rot in their graves without justification.
This Marathon bombing isn't a political event. And politicians will not find the guilty person or persons responsible and bring them to court. They'll be found and nabbed by professional slueths who are talented today with methods that work. And I, for one, trust them to get the job done.
Gramps
I keep reminding people how they are on camera almost every step they take when they leave home and it's true. We have no idea yet how many pictures or tapes haven't been examined by people who have been specifically trained to sort through them in search of repetitious individuals that pop up again and again. Not to mention they government's call to find people who inadvertently snapped a pic of someone on a cell phone while they believed they were only taking a photo of a friend or a contestant in the race.
There is a plus to this "big brother" thing if we can look past the problem of infringing on our personal rights to privacy long enough to see it. It's sort of kin to the weapons thingy that's got us tied in a knot at this time. At what point do our rights exceed a right to life of those killed by lunatics with a vengence?
Any person who ever served in the military knows how to make a homemade bomb if they paid attention to instructors during training. That's a lot of suspects. But cameras can narrow the chase and can become iron clad evidence when experts in that field put the pieces of the puzzle together.
I doubt the negative side protects the guilty from being fingered so much as our judicial system that lets them rot in prison for years on end to avoid going to trial and then appealing decisions while their victims rot in their graves without justification.
This Marathon bombing isn't a political event. And politicians will not find the guilty person or persons responsible and bring them to court. They'll be found and nabbed by professional slueths who are talented today with methods that work. And I, for one, trust them to get the job done.
Gramps
