Seems to me they should lighten up.
Face it, in a free society if someone wants to place a bomb, they're going to place a bomb.
Sure it's a stupid stunt, but that's what it was meant to be.
Who again, is winning the war on terror. Every time we react to something this patently silly, we fairly scream, "LOSERS". The people have paid a lot and will continue paying a lot, while not solving the problem.
I am afraid Bush and company have squandered much of the impetus (righteous anger) of the American people and will come away with little more than the degradation of the GOP and the American reputation.
Since the end of WWII, we have been plagued with an intelligence service that is anything but (yes, even before Clinton/Gorelick) and a determination to do everything possible to not win a war that we so readily enter into.
broad brush paint time:
BOSTONIANS ARE IDIOTS
Need evidence?
Ted Kennedy, John F'n Kerry.
You train cops and citizens to look for certain things to identify potential bombs.
You train them to look for batteries. You train them to look for wires. You train them to look for things strapped to vital infrastructure. You train them to look for blinking lights.
These devices had all those things. They were obviously stupid signs, but they had all the checklist items for "BOMB". One could not design these things and fail to realize that fact.
Why the exposed battery pack? Why the exposed wiring? Why design them that way unless you wanted them to have the same characteristics that everybody is looking for in a bomb?
And, finally, why get people used to odd electrical devices strapped to bridge supports and the like? This exact same looking unit could have been strapped to a block of C-4, and could have caused real hazard, properly placed.
Turner'$ got deep pocket$. Course he probably he running an errand for Bin Laddie.
If it has come to this... then the terrorists have won. Only God can save this nation. If people don't turn back to God, I fear what will happen. More and more people will be willing to submit to a police state. Good bye old American values! Good bye American freedoms! Hello storm troopers and a camera on every corner!
May God have mercy on us and our families...
The Dark Days are coming! Trust in Jesus! The Jesus that died for our sins and rose again 3 days later! Get your life right with God guys! For the sake of you and yoru children... this is gonna be a bumpy ride!
and in all things... good and bad... Praise God! :)
They committed the most unforgivable of crimes -- they made the government look bad.
Does anyone have pics of these things? From what I've read, they'd been up in the city for at least 2 weeks (not only in Boston but other big cities, too) and no one noticed how threatening they were til now? Just seems bizarre.
Scanning this first thing in the morning before coffee, I read "Menino" as another word beginning with "M" and often paired with "Outraged".
If they announced that they were fake devices and they really didn't appear to be real devices then they may get off.
But it was stupid.
Gazooks! They *FEAR* a wonderful cartoon stunt. What they *should* fear is all the idiocy regarding homosexual marriage, and brain-washing school kids that perversion is healthy and normal.
Sounds to me like common sense is missing. The people involved in the gimmick should have cleared it with law enforcement first. If the participants in the gimmick called 9-11 to report suspicious packages, they should be held accountable. Perhaps they called because the were not getting enough attention. Advertising, like the stupid radio show where the woman died from drinking too much water are all over the place. They go too far for attention at times. Once the cops knew it was a hoax, they should have treated it less seriously without inconveniencing the citizens any more.
There were no bombs nor threats. They don't have anything to charge.
Memo to the mayor: The Cartoon Network doesn't have or need an FCC license. It's on cable.
Honestly, tho. If, on my daily commute to work, I noticed something new that looks like that out of the corner of my eye, especially if it was tucked under an underpass or taped to the support of a bridge and hadn't been there the day before, I would certainly call it in.
If I were a citizen of Boston, I would like to see a break down of these costs. Are we paying somebody to turn on an emergency management software program? Are there special people that only get paid when there is a crisis? Bomb squad? K-9 Handlers? Or do these people collect salaries and only alter their job descriptions when a crisis takes place and maybe rake in a few extra hours of overtime? Or would we be fining these people for merely raising the mayor's blood pressure for a few hours?
Serious question, what's the basis behind this estimate?
They should have at least sought permits. At a minimum, they should have ran a story in the local newspapers stating what the signs were about. This stunt, considering our current state of awareness, was dumb.