"Trust me," he says, "we won’t be giving up any civil liberties to keep ourselves safe because of this. We won’t cancel next year’s marathon. We won’t drive to New Hampshire and stockpile weapons. When the authorities find the weak and terminally maladjusted culprit or culprits, we’ll roll our eyes at whatever backward ideology they embrace and move on with our lives."
That's what it means to not be terrorized.
Lehane continues: "The little man or men who did this will, I have faith, be arrested,
jailed and forgotten. Whatever hate movement they belong to will
ultimately go the way of the anarchist assassination movements of the
early 20th century or the Symbionese Liberation Army of the 1970s."
"Boston took a punch on Monday," Lehane closes " — that left it
staggering for a bit. Flesh proved vulnerable, as flesh is wont to do,
but the spirit merely trembled before recasting itself into something
stronger than any bomb or rage."
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