The Terrorists Have Won

A guy at work told me about how Boston is going after some people who were promoting the [adult swim] movie Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and I thought, "Man, this doesn't sound good for the network."

Then I checked out a post on newsarama about it and realized the authorities in Boston are just fu**ing morons.

Here's the link:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=99821


Okay, so the "Cradle of American Democracy" (my label, as I believe the colonists in Boston had the largest effect on gathering support in the bid for independence) is planning on sticking Turner Broadcasting and the two performance artists who "planted" the advertisements with a million dollars worth of charges. Over some LED artwork.

There are number of things wrong here:
1. The artwork looks like a f***ing Light Brite!!! Are they nuts?
2. The figure has its middle finger sticking up. Do we think al Queda is going to be that obvious when they plant bombs?
3. NINE (!!!) other cities had the exact same guerrilla marketing go on, and there was not one single instance in any of them that there was some sort of terrorist plot.
4. Did it really cost a million dollars to investigate? (I did a little more reading on the story, and the whole thing took less than 11 hours from the beginning to when Turner said they were responsible).
5. Does Boston really think they can hide behind the "Well, after 9/11, things are different" bullshit that the White House has been feeding us for five years?

All this is, is an attempt to blame a governmental fu** up on something else. "Let's make this story WAAAAAY bigger than it is, and maybe the populace will forget how stupid this all is."

Morons.

Here's a link to a writer who noted the story:
http://www.peterdavid.net/

Follow the link on his page to a Boston TV Channel webpage (I tried doing a direct link, and it didn't go right to the story) and then scroll through the stories and click on "Boston Hoax Suspects Mock Media" for the best press conference I've ever seen. Since the guys who put the ads all over the city were advised by their lawyer to not discuss any elements of the case, they held a press conference discussing '70s hair styles. Classic.

It thumbs their noses at the jackass media and the city-- and does it all with an [adult swim] flair.