There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some …

Noam Chomsky
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There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2015). Because We Say So, p.106, City Lights Books
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