Dude, wrong name for your website. It should be clueless! Yes, CLUELESS. You know to grow up and get out of fairy land. Last we need is performance artists running around America planting devices with batteries and wires sticking out. They thought it was funny. They tapes, videoed police finding the devices instead of stepping forward immediately and proiding a list of places to find the rest. Unfortunately in America even a dumb juvenile like you can buy a computer and put up a website. And yes they are going after the LA newspaper rack clowns.

Joe - I'm not a dude or juvenile. You need to stop reading just the headline and bullet points on cnn.com and read the actual content of the news reports. They were paid to do a job. It wasn't performance art. And when they realized what they were videotaping was the ad, they stopped and called their employer and their employer told them they would take care of it. I would want my employer to take care of it.

And if you bothered looking at the date and time of this (and my previous post), you would know that it was only _after_ the scare in Boston (and after I posted this) that the CA U.S. Attorney decided to seek damages for the MI:3 bomb stunt.

>>>Unfortunately in America even a dumb juvenile like you can buy a computer and put up a website.

Isn't this the same internet (which extends beyond America, dontcha know) that has provided you a venue in which you can post your crotchety, ill-humored view on my site?

I agree. Hopefully these guys will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And no I am not 50 years old, I am a 27 year old professional college educated woman, working in Boston. Those guys are idiots and completely disrespectful. They both should go to jail, and then the Belarussian should be deported. Your website is lame, and it is funny that you are the only one who responds to the posters. Defensive much? Have fun persuing an "online" college degree, wow, that is valuable.

I think the Police did the right thing, which is doing their job. For anyone to disagree, put the incident in a different perspective- for example, child abuse and or domestic abuse. Would you want your police to "not over-react"?

There must be nearly 10's of thousands of companies in the Boston area. Imagine a scenario where each one decide to pick a date to pull off their stunt.

If you have a bone to pick, you really should vent toward the media. Say, media outlet such as CNN, who gasp- is also owned by the same company that owns the Cartoon Network. Free advertisement disguised as news. Ever heard of product placement?

So your option at the end of the day are essentially to target your anger toward the state and municiple government or against a multi-billion dollar corporation. And the two guys that got caught in the middle- they are grown-up adults. Act like it. Take some responsibilities for your own actions and inactions.

Megan - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

I'm amused that you bothered to post to such a "lame site". Was it really worth your time?

YS - From my post:

"Why are we blaming people for the police reacting the way they should have when they see something suspicious and “bomblike”?"

They overreacted regarding their arrest of these two individuals.

Suppose a DPW worker accidentally left a walkman or gameboy by the side of the road and the police shut down the city thinking it was a bomb?
The only thing those two should be charged with is littering.

Personally, I put the blame for overacting squarely on the shoulders of George W(orst) Bush. He and the remainder of the neo-con’s have systematically engaged in a deliberate racist effort to use fear of people who look different to win elections and rob the American people of their civil liberties. This is just the latest symptom of the epidemic of hatred that has been cultivated by the neo-conservative religious right.

If you want to arrest anyone because of this incident, you should start with 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. The charge would be treason.

I agree w you. Peter and Sean will be martyrs for their beautiful art and expression while the fascist major menino and boston pd make out like bandit stealing for boston from some of the smartest tv progrms of today. Peter and Sean will be looked back at as the heros they are who saved us from all these long years of government makig us scared of "terrorists." shame on the politicians and shame on bosdumb. they will be like abraham lincoln and stuff while boston bows down to repuglicans in dems clothing and jesus that ancient hobo in rags. racism out - white christ worshipers out. vote vote vote!!!!

Joe - apparently you have allowed yourself to become so fearful of the threat terrorism you would ban free speech.

Megan - a college education was not sufficient for you to recognize that being an idiot or disrespectful is not a crime in this country.

YS - exactly how do you define "over-react"? Beatings before arrest? Simply shooting people who may or may not be committing a crime?

Tell Megan she shove her college education. I have a four year degree actually as opposed to meghan. Bridgewater State. Heres the difference between you and me,I sypathize with true americans who live as heros doing the american dream and you sympathy lies with authoritarians like menino and moakley and the police scumbags who arrested these brave souls and still pray (?!?!?!) to their rag king jesus instead of depend on their neigbors. i say send them back to europe and the history of discriminating against minorities and immigrants there. there no place for these white christ-happy dictators here. this is america, out of here.

While I am not sure that I would use the same terminology that Brad uses, clearly he has taken the time to think this issue through and has come to the correct conclusions. My only quarrel with him would be the language. It could be mistaken by some of the less intelligent readers as inflammatory. Personally, I am torn as to whether we should care about that. One could ague that the only way to convince the neo-cons of the error of their ways is through a calm well reasoned discussion. On the other hand, who cares what they think. They are so obviously anti-American in their approach to civil rights and all things that make this country great.

Besides, if the most recent elections are any guide, then it appears as if when the country holds fair elections, where all the votes are counted, then they lose big. That is what happened in 2006, and would have happened in 2000 and 2004 had the Bush crime family not fixed the elections.

"There is nothing, not a single thing, remotely suggesting that Turner or the guerilla marketing firm they hired intended to cause a public disturbance. Many have claimed the signs were "like saying 'fire' in a crowded theater." Wrong. This was like taping a picture of a fire to the wall of a theater and someone freaked out and called the fire department."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/nonterrorist_em.html