boston bombers
February 1st, 2007 by adminAm I the only one who thinks that The authorities in Boston are going about this whole thing a little ass-backwards? Instead of arresting the two (entirely innocent) men who were running a marketing campaign for TBS, and threatening to sue TBS, they should be arresting the detectives and suing the police department for wasting valuable taxpayer dollars on something so trivial. TBS is not the culprit here – Boston’s public officials are.
The only crime TBS has committed is exposing public officials as fools, and for that the public officials are attempting to use their power to retaliate. This precident is atrocious and potentially damaging. Since when is crying “the emperor has no clothes” a crime? Since when is doing something that looks like a crime akin to commiting a crime? The fact that there is no public outcry over this issue is mind boggling.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
True. It’s public administration gone awry. It’s the same as calling 911 and waiting while your house burns down as the fire department arrives for something that you could put out with a fire extinguisher. The Boston local police, instead of doing some quick investigating, decided to throw up their hands and call someone else before doing a little more checking. Anyone who would have taken a closer look could have probably figured out it wasn’t a bomb! Instead, they closed down the entire orange line as well as an interstate just to find that out.
February 4th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I think that you might find Jeff Jacoby’s column, that discusses this very issue, to be quite interesting…