Maybe they were actually Iranian spy drones? NEW CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!
Do you not see this is how terrorism works, a few people with home-made bombs can blow up 52 people on the London underground and it sends the nation into chaos. I know it seems like it's putting a small price on human life but would 52 people dyeing in a day (remember are governments don't believe in counting civilian deaths) in Iraq really seem anything special.
Following the 7/7 bombings there was national panic, an innocent man was murdered by police officers (it should have legally been a murder inquiry but Ian Blair made damn sure it never happened to save his own arse) and yet more chaos was successfully accomplished with a few guys with rucksacks that didn't even have working bombs in them.
Terrorism only works because we fall for it every time, which the government tries very hard to make sure happens with propaganda like the text message service that tells you when the threat level is raised.
Just looks like the Boston cops mis-read their Department Of Fatherland Security Defenders Of Freedom Handbook. It actually says "take no chances with IEDs" not "act like nancies when you see LEDs".
Kev, that shift to the right seems to be happening in a few other places. The Democrats in the US seem to be moving to the right quite noticeably (especially "Democrat" Senator Liebermann - his utterly unquestioning support for the War On Everything makes him almost indistinguishable from a neo-con Republican) - seems the D's don't want to be seen as "soft on security", which has always been the Republicans' trump card. "Let us do what we want or the evildoers will get you! Ooh booga booga! Vote Republican or terrorists will eat your children!" Most of their criticism of the war(s) seem to concentrate not on the fact that it was all illegal, based on falsified everything, a perfect method of increasing terrorism worldwide and utterly unnecessary to boot (which should be obvious to all, especially now the US body count has surpassed that of 9/11), but rather that the Republicans have done a lousy job of managing it. It's not "you shouldn't have done this at all," it's "you suck at it and we would have done things differently". It's also happening down here in Oz but, thankfully, not to so large an extent. The Labour opposition down here are quite happy to stick the boot in to PM Howard and his laughable kissing up to sherriff Shrub.
This whole LED overreaction to a few guerilla billboards is symptomatic of the climate of fear that exists in the US (and elsewhere) right now. AFAIK the "threat level" in the US hasn't dipped below amber since 9/11, despite there being no attack or attempted attack since that date. Down here we're always being told to watch out - a couple of years ago the government released a "dob in a terrorist" pack which they sent to every home in the country. Had a fridge magnet and a brochure on how to spot a suspicious person doing suspicious things. There was a hotline number and TV campaign and all that. Most people here found it quite laughable actually
Often on the news programs we're treated to footage of badass anti-terror squads in black uniforms swinging down from black helicopters or cruising our harbours in big black speedboats - just a neat little reminder that there is, in fact, something to be afraid of and you should keep that in mind for the next election. Like a SWAT team will be any use after the friggin suitcase bomb has exploded! As if terrorists are likely to cruise in with their terrorist navy or invade us with their terrorist air force! But every so often your government will poke you with a stick, just to keep you on "amber" and remind you that only they can protect you from the evil-doers. Was the government's fear factor ever this ridiculous in the UK during the height of IRA activity, when people were in real danger of being caught up in a real bombing?
Kev, that shift to the right seems to be happening in a few other places. The Democrats in the US seem to be moving to the right quite noticeably (especially "Democrat" Senator Liebermann - his utterly unquestioning support for the War On Everything makes him almost indistinguishable from a neo-con Republican) - seems the D's don't want to be seen as "soft on security", which has always been the Republicans' trump card. "Let us do what we want or the evildoers will get you! Ooh booga booga! Vote Republican or terrorists will eat your children!" Most of their criticism of the war(s) seem to concentrate not on the fact that it was all illegal, based on falsified everything, a perfect method of increasing terrorism worldwide and utterly unnecessary to boot (which should be obvious to all, especially now the US body count has surpassed that of 9/11), but rather that the Republicans have done a lousy job of managing it. It's not "you shouldn't have done this at all," it's "you suck at it and we would have done things differently". It's also happening down here in Oz but, thankfully, not to so large an extent. The Labour opposition down here are quite happy to stick the boot in to PM Howard and his laughable kissing up to sherriff Shrub.
This whole LED overreaction to a few guerilla billboards is symptomatic of the climate of fear that exists in the US (and elsewhere) right now. AFAIK the "threat level" in the US hasn't dipped below amber since 9/11, despite there being no attack or attempted attack since that date. Down here we're always being told to watch out - a couple of years ago the government released a "dob in a terrorist" pack which they sent to every home in the country. Had a fridge magnet and a brochure on how to spot a suspicious person doing suspicious things. There was a hotline number and TV campaign and all that. Most people here found it quite laughable actually
Often on the news programs we're treated to footage of badass anti-terror squads in black uniforms swinging down from black helicopters or cruising our harbours in big black speedboats - just a neat little reminder that there is, in fact, something to be afraid of and you should keep that in mind for the next election. Like a SWAT team will be any use after the friggin suitcase bomb has exploded! As if terrorists are likely to cruise in with their terrorist navy or invade us with their terrorist air force! But every so often your government will poke you with a stick, just to keep you on "amber" and remind you that only they can protect you from the evil-doers. Was the government's fear factor ever this ridiculous in the UK during the height of IRA activity, when people were in real danger of being caught up in a real bombing?So that's the terroists' strategy- put bright lights on their bombs so that we can see where they've hid them! GENIUS!
A couple of years ago every home in the UK was sent a leaflet entitled "Preparing For Emergencies". My favourite bit of advice in there was: "Go inside a safe building. Stay inside until you are advised to do otherwise. Of course there are always going to be particular occasions when you should not 'go in' to a building, for example if there is a fire".
Seriously. The government sincerely advised us not to seek refuge in burning buildings. I can't find that excerpt on the current site - perhaps they realised how preposterous it was and removed it, but not before they'd sent it to every home in the country.
No. I imagine people in London and Manchester were a bit edgy, but there was no national crisis. The only concession to terrorism that I recall was the conspicuous absence of litter bins on railway station platforms. Actually the only thing I was scared of when I was a kid was Margaret Thatcher. Screw Freddy Krueger - this woman actually toured the industrial towns of England, snuffing them out and putting whole communities in the poor house! She still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
*shudder* Thatcher. Still makes my skin crawl. She and Sherriff W would've got along like a house on fire. If she could've looked past his utter common-ness and white-hot idiocy.
Our geniuses in Melbourne have installed transparent rubbish bins on the platforms at Flinders St station now. Of course, all you'd have to do is wrap your banger to look like, well, rubbish and it's job done. I mean, seriously, do they think a modern terrorist bomb is going to be a few big, red sticks of dynamite with a big old alarm clock taped to them? How about a big round black ball with a smoking fuse sticking out the top?
"Don't enter burning buildings if you want to live". LOL that's gold! Reminds me of the old "duck and cover" nukular attack safety films from the '50s
Our geniuses in Melbourne have installed transparent rubbish bins on the platforms at Flinders St station now. Of course, all you'd have to do is wrap your banger to look like, well, rubbish and it's job done. I mean, seriously, do they think a modern terrorist bomb is going to be a few big, red sticks of dynamite with a big old alarm clock taped to them? How about a big round black ball with a smoking fuse sticking out the top?
"Don't enter burning buildings if you want to live". LOL that's gold! Reminds me of the old "duck and cover" nukular attack safety films from the '50s
LOL Brazil... That was a good movie. and it is really scary how things are beginning to be like that movie... Information retreval, everyday was Christmas, and that stupid song that always was on the radio no matter what.
You got all kinds of "Information retreval" services, the stores start X-mas sales in October and no matter what, it always seems Nickleback is on the damn radio.
Yeah Boston is a weird city. In the 80's I remember some kid there shot another kid with a water gun... the other kid shot him back with a real gun.
The city's response? They passed a law banning water guns...or were trying to I can't remember.
LOL it's a good thing that kid didn't urinate on the other guy. What would they've banned then??????
You got all kinds of "Information retreval" services, the stores start X-mas sales in October and no matter what, it always seems Nickleback is on the damn radio.
Yeah Boston is a weird city. In the 80's I remember some kid there shot another kid with a water gun... the other kid shot him back with a real gun.
The city's response? They passed a law banning water guns...or were trying to I can't remember.
LOL it's a good thing that kid didn't urinate on the other guy. What would they've banned then??????
I remember reading that, a complete joke.
Maybe that's the excuse given to why there are no bins at Paddington station? Seriously I could not find one anywhere and none of the outlets would take rubbish or tell me where a bin was. I don't like leaving rubbish but I can't be arsed to carry it home to get rid of it.
Update: whacky ol' Boston mayor wants to ban guerilla marketing. Nice one, spackwad :up:
If you can't laugh, legislate.
Why doesn't stuff like this happen in Europe, even though we have twice the population of U.S.?
Hilarious! Especially banning guerilla marketing*.
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(ot: what's finnish equivalent for this?)
Hilarious! Especially banning guerilla marketing*.
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(ot: what's finnish equivalent for this?)
I think it's called "sissimarkkinointi", a straight translation surprise surprise.
Thanks! I Just felt a little stupid considering I have studied some marketing
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Boston Wigs out over some L.E.D lights...
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