Boston
As everyone in the world has now heard, the city of Boston made a giant ass out of itself by throwing a hissy fit over a bunch of light-boards depicting a rude alien this week. The city jumped at it’s own shadow faster than you can say “marshal law!” and shut itself down, using the bomb squad to remove what amounted to dozens of kids’ toys.
At this rate, the terrorists don’t even need to attack us again. We’re so paralyzed by our own fear that we invent things to be scared of. Shutting down a city over some colorful lights (that apparently had been there for weeks before they were noticed)--WTF???
In all seriousness, what is the goal of a terror campaign? It’s to change the lives of a massive amount of people for the worse with a disproportionately small number of acts that get a lot of publicity. President Bush might say we’re winning the war on terrorism, but as long as our own citizens are going to pee themselves every time they see something they don’t understand, I say the terrorists are winning.
Friends, Americans, countrymen: GROW SOME BALLS! It’s time to quit acting like quivering sissies and actually get back to living our lives. Quit accepting drastic new invasions of privacy and huge inconveniences by the government into our every-day lives, just so we might catch a terrorist who would kill, what, a few hundred people (at worst)? Is it right to paralyze our entire country, over 300 million people, and spend billions and billions of dollars for defense measures that are mostly ineffective any way? Does anyone really think that if the terrorists wanted to kill a bunch of Americans they couldn’t find a way to do it now? Stop deluding yourselves.
Instead of being outraged at a couple of kids pulling a clever marketing campaign, we should be outraged that our public officials have no grasp on reality.
Things I Loath
Thursday, February 1, 2007
