The lesson of the capture of the second Boston bomber couldn’t be clearer: you want to find a fugitive, don’t treat a community like an obstruction. Encourage its initiative.
Shortly after the “authorities” admitted defeat in their day-long imprisonment of an entire city, a homeowner finally released from his “lock down” found their prey for them.
Going outside to check on his trailered boat, he found blood on its ripped cover, peeked inside and discovered the wounded teenage Jihadi. One phone call and the hundreds of police who’d spend the day fruitlessly cruising around clinging to their armored personnel carriers in their SS-black uniforms, body armor and helmets, had “their” victory. “We got him,” the mayor crowed.
But they didn’t. One alert and cooperative citizen did. Just one.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
