Let’s see. Terrorism is a tactic used to fight an overwhelmingly superior military force by terrifying the population. So, if you were a terrorist, how would you react to news that a great American city responded to electronic signs depicting a cartoon character by calling in its security forces, guns drawn, and shutting down the city? Do you think Al Qaeda uses the acronym “ROTFLMAO”?

This is what it means to be prepared? No, this is what it means to be stupid…specifically, the stupidity that’s an emergent property of bureaucracy.

If on Wednesday we saw how agencies terrified of being caught with their pants down respond, even though it means they end up pantsing themselves, on Thursday, we saw how an alert American citizenry responds to the sight of our security infrastructure running around in its knickers:

ROTFLMAO.

(I don’t know who first came up with that graphic, but: Thank you!] [Tags: mooninite terrorism security institutionalized_stupidity rotflmao media]

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