Martial Law Lockdown Precedent In Boston

Despite not having a shit ton of confidence in our wonderful establishment media, I was still sorta surprised that the Boston lockdown didn't get more play in the wake of the capture of mad bomber #2.  Even on the nominally "liberal" blogs and shit, not too too much (sane, reasonable) chatter about the martial law precedent bubbled up.  Shutting down a major American city Boston to capture one asshole kid who probably blew up the marathon was kind of a big fucking deal.  Certainly the shootout and subsequent escape of the second suspect was a titanic clusterfuck for the Boston PD and the FBI and the rest of them, but the ease with which they moved into lockdown was disconcerting.  The sad part is, I understand the very practical idea of the Boston lockdown: basic public safety.  Some of the more lucid Boston PD folks on the ground must have been worried about paranoid and scared-shitless cops shooting up cars and houses and random pedestrians or getting into shootouts with asshole NRA douchebags who considered themselves just the sort of Chuck Heston to fill mad bomber #2 fulla holes.  Those nightmare scenarios would have been tragic as well as really bad on the 24 cable news networks, so locking down the city probably seemed like a good idea to many of the people who were actually doing the police work.  However, the ugly precedent and police state tactics involved in declaring martial law over an idiot teenager aren't going away any time soon, and that sucks bigtime.