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A National Laughingstock

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Last week’s Terror Toons debacle has made it to the pages of The Onion:

What about all the Cheers shit you used to see around town? Man, that used to freak me out all the time.

Quality commentary also in The Village Voice not to mention from arch-conservative Stephen Colbert. Meanwhile, evidence is being gathered against the Terror Toons Two scapegoats, but no word about retraining programs for the Boston Police Department, new administrators at the local offices of the Department of Homeland Security or, indeed, any substantive acknowledgment — measured in deeds, not words — that anyone in government might, just possibly, have exercised less than perfect judgment on the Day Boston Wet Itself.

If anyone should be prosecuted, it should be the people at Interference Marketing who failed to notify the city of the campaign — even, apparently, after it became evident the lite-brites were (somehow) thought to be bombs — and perhaps executives at Turner who ordered the campaign. Their $2 million payment shouldn’t insulate them from criminal charges if any actually are to be brought (although of course it probably will, leaving the scapegoats to suffer alone). If anyone should be held to account by the media, including the blogosphere, it should be the Police Department.

Fortunately, an alert internet-enabled patriot has come to the aid of a city in need and produced this excellent Boston Terrorist Hunter training simulator.

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  1. Their $2 million payment shouldn’t insulate them from criminal charges

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    did they violate?

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    And are we comfortable applying the same penalties to highway bloggers with “Impeach” signs, large overpass flags supporting Iraq vets that could easily hide a bomb, flash mobs who crowd public places to protest a potential war with Iran, V-bloggers reporting from outside courtrooms, and regular bloggers bringing their “boxes” and “wires” inside political convention halls?

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    If not, are we distinguishing these groups based on whether they make us feel personally embarrassed, whether we agree with them, or whether city officials subjectively feel like pushing the panic button that day?

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