Certain Unalienable Realities
OK. After the craziest week of professional and peripheral experiences I have experienced in a very long time, we are back to examining the fundamental freedoms and rights that are inalienable versus privilege we take for granted as Americans. On Monday, during the Boston Marathon, New Yorkers like me were flashing back and working through our Local and National PTSD regarding explosions and injuries and responders being killed or injured, limbs falling from the sky and 3 fatalities that are still being resolved as I write this. As Americans, we have simultaneously been reminded as one people, that our freedoms don’t come free of any cost. With freedom comes responsibility (whether you like it or not). These responsibilities are what our laws are for and our laws and their enforcement require us to work together as one country. As the ATF, FBI, Massachusetts State Police and Boston PD arrest “Suspect #2” in connection to the bombing Monday at the Boston Marat...