B. No other city in the nation made this into an issue to gain a cool 2 Million.

C. This is not class warfare. People make more $$. I don’t care who put the signs up.

D. Overreactions over to minor issues have a chilling effect.

Also, do you have that much confidence in our country’s ability to protect us from those who might want to harm us? Yes? No? I don’t. I don’t lose any sleep over it, but I don’t trust it. But it makes me feel better that appropriate actions were taken the other day. Past and present conflicts (Afganistan vs USSR, Vietnam vs US) have shown guerrilla warfare is effective against more powerful countries, so why should this be any different.

And this incident has only possibly helped any terrorist want-a-be’s. As a terrorism non-pro looking at what happened the other day, I learned several things. First, half of the population is now complacent about innocent looking objects so now I can put bombs in anything (even a copy of the devices) and claim some lives. Secondly, I’ve now seen how the city officals responded in rerouting traffic (what got stopped where and what was sent where) which I can use to make secondary attacks more effective - a la the London attacks which hit the buses after an initial subway bomb. Could the re-routes have been predicted? Sure, but this confirms the routes. Thirdly, I saw what resources were pulled where (police doing traffic duty, etc…) , leaving gaps in coverage. I’m not sure what I would do with that info exactly, but I’m not a terrorist.

Am I being paranoid? Sure, but then again I was born in a country (not the US for those of you playing the home game) that was actively at war to parents who had lived through numerous conflicts.

And keep in mind these signs weren’t put up for art’s sake or something a fan put up. They were ads for a large corporation whose CEO’s bonus last year was more than what you and I will make in our lifetimes.

And Ted color the world wierd Turner should have fucking known better. Does it make me a pussy to have said out loud
Glad I didn’t take the train today
when I saw the city of Boston shut fucking down because of a TV show that I’ve played in the backyahd being made into a movie’s Guerrilla advertising?
Guerrilla anything in this country should only be of the McGilla flavor please.
Freedom isn’t free, and if there were bombs instead of Mooninites, what would we be saying now? THAT freedom ( the one of speech ) is what is important here, not the freedom to plant hoax devices that threaten panic, chaos, the four horseman and Metallica growing their hair back.
-d—

This causes a chilling effect. If there are major fines and arrests because a couple of guys put up some (actually kinda cool) signs around this city, will other artists or anyone do the same?

It’s doubtful.

When small actions carry major risk, they are less likely to be undertaken. And if you need a permit to put up a sign, is it free speech?

Are you just arguing to make this post have the most comments ever? I think it doesn’t count if it’s the two of us.

The key words here are “potentially explosive”. If this was such a security threat, why was Boston the only city to take the extremist route? Are we smarter than the nation, dumber than the nation, or bigger pussies?

Franklin once said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

When everything is a potential threat, everyone is a potential threat.