{"id":39,"date":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/19\/post-32-martial-law-1775-vs-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"post-32-martial-law-1775-vs-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/19\/post-32-martial-law-1775-vs-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-32: Martial Law, 1775 vs. 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Painting of Paul Revere (From here<\/a>)<\/div>\n

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It seems that martial law has been imposed by government authorities in and around Boston on two occasions:
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<\/span>The first time<\/a>: The night of April 18th-19th, 1775
<\/span>The second: The night of April 18th-19th, 2013.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Yesterday, it was due to a manhunt for the “Boston Marathon bombers”. Everything was “locked down<\/span>“, a euphemism for martial law<\/strong>. (The euphemism is arguably scarier than the term it replaces, in this case). In 1775, it was amidst a wild political climate which saw Paul Revere<\/strong> ride through towns of Massachusetts shouting “the British are coming!”<\/em> (<\/span>forevermore to be learned-about by American elementary school students). Fighting followed<\/a><\/span>.\n<\/div>\n

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\n<\/span>According to this<\/a>, Revere was actually one of three sounding the alarm that night, on different routes. <\/p>\n

One of the riders passed right through Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Cambridge<\/strong>, it seems,<\/span> was the place of residence of the “Boston bombers”.\u00a0 On April 19th, 2013, one was killed, and one captured, in adjacent “Watertown”.<\/p>\n

Actually, there is a pretty amazing synchronicity:<\/p>\n

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  1. Revere was captured about 1 AM<\/a> on April 19, 1775.\n<\/li>\n
  2. The older Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was also located by authorities at about 1 AM <\/strong>on April 19th (of 2013). (Tsarnaev was killed, Revere was not).<\/font>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
    \n<\/span>    \"Picture\"<\/a><\/p>\n
    Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed
    at about 1 AM EDT, April 19, 2013 \/
    238 years to the day and hour<\/i>
    after Paul Revere was captured<\/div>\n

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    Yes, I was following the coverage of this, at work and at home, as best I could. (I am 13 hours ahead of EDT here). The mood in the USA seemed — observed from afar, I mean — it seemed as if the USA was in a war panic<\/em>, a kind of December 8th, 1941 atmosphere. Or September 12th.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>A Korean I spoke with on the matter pointed out that it was just three dead. (Three “civilians” and, later, one dead policeman). Bad, yes, but hardly necessitating a mass panic. The radio correspondents I was listening to were in a total daze: They said things like “we’ve never seen anything like this!<\/em>” All regular programming was cut for round-the-clock coverage. Everything was closed. Millions were under martial-law: One million people within a certain radius were ordered indoors under threat of force (true martial-law), and millions more in Greater Boston were intimidated into staying off the street (defacto martial-law) too. Photos of deserted streets in Boston emerged. An entire city, empty. This was astonishing, to me.<\/p>\n

    Was this level of hysteria an overreaction? I think so, but it is also understandable: This kind of drama builds esprit-de-corps<\/em> by giving people a shared and memorable experience. That is highly important, and something lacking in the USA in recent….decades, it seems to me.\n<\/div>\n

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