Now I've been to America a bunch of times, and all the Americans I met there were just the nicest people. So I got very irritated hearing someone I know declaring Americans were generally stupid..and then recently a guy form a European country, while standing with two other Americans, asked me "So, do you hate Americans too?" Since I am Polish-Canadian, I consider American and Canadian culture to be overlapping, and that comment was offensive to me.
But after I heard what happened in Boston a few days ago, I kind of saw where these people were coming from. Sometimes -- way too often -- authorities south of the border just go overboard.
Paralyzing traffic all over a city and freaking out its citizens about a possible terrorist attack over a cartoon promo...Boston's mayor wants to charge two youths hired to put up electronic devices depicting a cartoon character with intent to incite panic - or something like that.
The best thing Ive seen on TV in a long time is this press conference the two 20-something defendants had with their lawyer at their side not answering any questions except those that had to do with their hair cuts. Wild.
Granted I know nothing about maintaining security of a city like Boston, this overreaction looks silly. What are people in other countries to think when they read this story??
