Dear America. Use your common sense.

This is another truly sad example of how Bush has destroyed America. Boston was apparently "riddled" with bomb scares yesterday. People were phoning in reports of suspicious packages that they thought were bombs. Look at the picture. Does that look like a bomb to you? They're an advertising promo of some sort done by Turner Broadcasting.

"We apologize to the citizens of Boston that part of a marketing campaign was mistaken for a public danger" is what the CEO said. What? You're apologising for this? Oh come on! What you should have said was "We apologise that you Bostonites are too fucking stupid to realise that an advertisement is not a bomb."

The two guys who were commissioned to make these signs and put them up have now been arrested and charged with placing a hoax device in a way that results in panic under the Patriot Act. They face 5 years in jail, essentially for not breaking any law, but because some twitchy Americans panicked.

The Patriot Act for God's sake! Why can you Americans not see how dangerous this is? People arrested under the Patriot Act, charged with terrorism - something that will stick on their criminal record - because they assembled a bunch of LEDs with a battery and a magnet for an advertising promotion! This is insane!

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