It's not a fair comparison at all.
I usually give T crap on these issues regularly. However, a few things are bothering me. After 911 the media just did not do their job. Bill Mahr started making some comments which were not lock step in flag waving and chants of USA....and ABC let him go, and when our SOS goes to the UN.....no critical review of the evidence for invasion of Iraq. This idea of questioning authority or assumptions makes a person a bad person is very much what made the Nazi regime successful.....the fear of being different, or being seen as different.
The media coverage of this event is very similar to 911 where critical questions simply were not asked. Is anybody discussing the fact that the feds never went to these suspects house after a few days of photos and ids.......it was a reaction by local police to the murder of the officer which set off the first gun battle, not part of the huge investigatory response.......yet, they shut an American city down by putting the innocent citizens in house arrest. As I said earlier.....chemical, or biological.....no problem.....don't care if in the end they were wrong......but when they did this they knew one was dead, and one was walking and wounded......why was this city put under arrest? I need to understand why this was done, but more importantly who made this decision?