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Our Sad City?
Feb. 1st, 2007 03:39 pmI suppose I'm disappointed that our city, Boston, out of the 10 cities nationwide where these goofy-ass Mooninite lite-brites were found, is the only one to lose its shit entirely.
They're in LA, they're in NYC, they're in Chicago, Seattle, etc, and yet even after Boston Officials knew what they were, as they continued to find them, still treated the entire area like a confirmed bomb site.
Mayor Menino talking tough isn't making Boston look too good to anyone except those people already so blinded by the Homeland Security song and dance that nothing would change their mind anyway. Having the first words out of your mouth be, "We're gonna Sue!" looks really really REALLY petty.
The statement by MBTA Police Lt. Sal Venturelli that, "this is an example of our passengers taking part in Homeland Security" is BULLSHIT, since the stupid device was in place for TWO WEEKS before the woman who called it in bothered to mention it to anyone. I'm pretty sure terrorists wouldn't wait two weeks to blow us up.
Granted, the placement of these devices was very very VERY poorly thought out by the two guys who put them there, and their handling of this whole thing seems a little juvenile. They're laughing it off, but probably the best idea, to keep our uber-paranoid government from locking them up as enemy combatants somewhere, is to make a very sincere apology, and get Turner Broadcasting to cough up a lot of money to cover the "$1 million" in overtime that managed to get itself spent yesterday. I sincerely hope Boston gets over itself soon, and decides against the circus that will be "Making an example of these men."
They're in LA, they're in NYC, they're in Chicago, Seattle, etc, and yet even after Boston Officials knew what they were, as they continued to find them, still treated the entire area like a confirmed bomb site.
Mayor Menino talking tough isn't making Boston look too good to anyone except those people already so blinded by the Homeland Security song and dance that nothing would change their mind anyway. Having the first words out of your mouth be, "We're gonna Sue!" looks really really REALLY petty.
The statement by MBTA Police Lt. Sal Venturelli that, "this is an example of our passengers taking part in Homeland Security" is BULLSHIT, since the stupid device was in place for TWO WEEKS before the woman who called it in bothered to mention it to anyone. I'm pretty sure terrorists wouldn't wait two weeks to blow us up.
Granted, the placement of these devices was very very VERY poorly thought out by the two guys who put them there, and their handling of this whole thing seems a little juvenile. They're laughing it off, but probably the best idea, to keep our uber-paranoid government from locking them up as enemy combatants somewhere, is to make a very sincere apology, and get Turner Broadcasting to cough up a lot of money to cover the "$1 million" in overtime that managed to get itself spent yesterday. I sincerely hope Boston gets over itself soon, and decides against the circus that will be "Making an example of these men."
