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**Jeffery** · 01-02-2007, 03:06 PM

This should serve as a lesson for those that believe in the nanny-state. It seems Boston's elitists are so naive, that it's possible to cause panic and basically shut the city down by hanging a few "LiteBrite" children's toys in various places. Is this the kind of overbearing panic that we wish to relinquish our freedoms to? Thank God a car didn't backfire during all this panic.

I don't think this is quite the case of a 'nanny state' I think we can agree that bomb disposal is a role for the government to fulfill, when there is a legitimate threat. The problem is that this is not a legitimate threat nor could be conceived to be by any rational individual, not that it is government encroaching on an area best filled by the private sector.

01-02-2007, 03:06 PM	#6
Jeffery Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	This should serve as a lesson for those that believe in the nanny-state. It seems Boston's elitists are so naive, that it's possible to cause panic and basically shut the city down by hanging a few "LiteBrite" children's toys in various places. Is this the kind of overbearing panic that we wish to relinquish our freedoms to? Thank God a car didn't backfire during all this panic. I don't think this is quite the case of a 'nanny state' I think we can agree that bomb disposal is a role for the government to fulfill, when there is a legitimate threat. The problem is that this is not a legitimate threat nor could be conceived to be by any rational individual, not that it is government encroaching on an area best filled by the private sector.
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