A Not-A-Bomb For Art’s Sake

Posted on September 21, 2007 in Paranoids Terrorism

I’m jumping off of the boat and swimming against the tide on this one, but realities are realities: that so-called “thing that looked like a bomb” looks nothing like a bomb. What we have here is a state of panic, an instance of our own minds terrorizing ourselves. The person at the information desk saw a wire and a battery, a few colored lights. She/he/it went into hypomania, perhaps dreaming that at last the day of excitement had come — a real [[Al Quaeda]] operative (Simpson appears to be half Asian and half white, probably registering as “off-white”) had come to her/him/it for details about a flight. Security was called. The police sent out a tac squad. And a sophomore at MIT was made to drop to the pavement to the delight of the media.

Folks, Al Quaeda has won another round in the war on terror. They don’t need to do a thing to scare us. We’re working overtime to do it ourselves.

Surflizard clears up the meaning of the ominous term “hoax device” and makes it even more ominous.

[tags]star simpson, terrorism, errorism, security, bizarre, strange, paranoia[/tags]