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Predictable fucking overreaction!
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Evidently someone was arrested and charged with a felony for placing LED light boards displaying the Mooninites in Boston.

The same ones that people decided must be some sort of "terrorist" "device" and freaked out about to the police. Who brought in the bomb squad, the FBI, and Fatherland, er, Homeland Security.

How can these fucktards leave the house in the morning without a helmet and make it through the day? Do they get special police booties that are secured with velcro, too? Obviously they aren't bright enough to be up to tying shoes.
Rep. Ed Markey, a Boston-area congressman, said, "Whoever thought this up needs to find another job."

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," Markey, a Democrat, said in a written statement. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."
Yeah, it's their fault that you and your cronies are so stupid as to overreact to some light-up ads.

This is the worst in security theater. Let's make people think that we're "doing something" about the "threat" and damn the consequences! And hey, if it keeps people on High Alert, well, so much the better! After all, the price of safety is a little liberty! The Homeland Founders said that, didn't they?

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It says, in large friendly letters, "We can't tell what's a bomb and what's a toy, and maybe we never could."

My guess is that a lot of heads may roll in the morning, but not the ones that should be rolling.

My other guess - as to why the first people on the scene didn't get it - is that there is now a culture in law enforcement of not making a decision yourself, but of kicking it upstairs to someone who has less information, a mandate to suspect everything, and who then kicks it upstairs themselves. It's the lack of common sense and self-direction at the bottom level that's really the problem.

Wow. I saw AdultSwim's apology on TV last night, and thought it was a joke. I had no idea that there was an actual scare over these things. It becomes even more silly when you see the actual "devices".


*sigh*

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