The Manhunt for the Boston Bombers: Your Rights vs. The Safety of Others

Apparently, some people are more concerned with their personal rights being intact. The people pictured here were more concerned with having both their legs intact.

With any tragedy, you get an array of reactions. The Boston bombing was no different. In wake of what happened, many people decided to shift the focus from the death of several people and the grave injuries of hundreds of others to fit their own agenda here.

Namely with the chief complaint the Boston PD and others were violating people's rights left and right by going door to door in Watertown, MA. After all the 4th Amendment protects us from this, right? Or is that pesky Patriot Act totally destroying all of our rights, forcing us to have to open our doors when a potential terrorist might be hiding out on our property.

I suspect no one is Watertown, nor in any Boston suburb was concerned with their rights being violated that day. Their concern was bring the sole surviving suspect to justice. One of the two people who may have maimed or killed one of their friends, neighbors, or loved ones. Perhaps by putting their agendas aside for a brief moment allowing a quick peek of their backyard gave them a sense of safety, maybe even relief if they knew the house cleared before them by SWAT was a family member, or a friend. I mean, whats more important in a situation like this, your rights or knowing that your mother across the street has not had her legs blown off or been shot to death?

The fact is, we knew very little about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We knew he was capable of making/detonating bombs with intent of harming a large number of people. We knew him and his brother were capable of killing a cop, and critically inuring another. They were capable of carjackings, police shootouts, throwing around improvised explosives at authorities.

There seemed to be no general consensus on his condition after the shootout that left his brother dead and him fleeing alone in the stolen SUV. Afterall, he did abandon it on foot and still elude police. So how passive and sensitive should we be when trying to apprehend people like this?

Are we that self righteous and paranoid to think authorities were doing this for anything less than to try and spare more deaths and bring the suspect to justice?

For the armchair patriots of the world, apparently our own personal rights selfishly take precedence over the innocent lives of others. Because of course, tyranny starts with illegal searches and the next thing you know they are going to take everyone's guns away.

In the meantime, I'd be interested to hear of any residents of the greater Boston area - namely ones that experienced any type of loss, whether they knew someone who was killed, or someone that will never walk again - who were genuinely upset at the fact door to door searches took place. Anyone? Didn't think so.