WELCOME TO THE AMERICA FOR BENEFIT TERRORIST CARTOON PLOT!
Mayor Menino said the hoax cost the state and cities about $750,000. He wants Turner Broadcasting to pay for it all.
Good hit Ted and Jane as hard as they can. I would think every person ought to sue who lost work etc for this stupid media stunt. I heard more cities were also being used but that they were able to stop it before it caused the problems Boston had...... The suspect is an exchange student from Belarus, if this is true.... we ought to sentence him to some jail time and deport him.
Stupid, ill-planned advertising campaign. Turner should be made to pay. But Aqua Teen Hunger Force kicks a$$!
It's a hoax only if it were intended to be perceived as something it wasn't. Evidently someone didn't bank on the fact that Americans are running scared.
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"Boston cops make arrest in devices ploy (media terrorist)"
Yahoo ^ | 1/31/2007 | KEN MAGUIRE, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 01/31/2007 6:45:54 PM PST by tobyhill
BOSTON
Pricele$$ publicity on all the networks, newspapers and even a conservative web forum.
BUMP
Indeed, it isn't. Another way of describing it is:
It's fear -- and it's not funny. The meaning of the phrase changes significantly, once you change just one word, doesn't it?
When are going to stop running around like a bunch of headless chickens and pull ourselves together? What sort of image is projected by this constant running for cover?
Then we have some large portion of population pressing for pulling out of Iraq. Bright idea, that one; could it be that UBL was right when he was referring to a 'bad horse'? We've become arrogant, weak and petulant. This is no time for persecuting one of our own for a thoughtless prank when there are real enemies around. Or have we become so timid that we'd rather fight a defenseless bunch of retards back home, then a real and deadly enemy on our doorstep?
So? The authorities panicked and now they want to 'do something' to cover themselves. There's no criminal intent here and probably no crime.
"It's a hoax -- and it's not funny," Gov. Deval Patrick said.
I guess that's one way to describe it when your bumbling reaction to a glorified Lite-Brite shuts down the city of Boston. Another reaction might be to laugh at glowing images of the Mooninites, but as they might say, "These ads are too complex for you to compute with 100% of your primitive earth brains."
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.
Hang em------High.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
This was, quite honestly, the funniest thing I'd seen on my television in years.
I can understand that a first single device can be mistaken as bomb but at what point doesn't someone say "stop"
Is it too late to round up Orson Welles and the cast of the Mercury Theater?