(original image by Ben Gray, bgray@ajc.com)
Fear cultists shut down the main connector running through downtown Atlanta for two hours on Monday afternoon.
Why? The device you see covered with duct tape above was a part of an art project using time lapse cameras. How a College Art Project Shut Down an Atlanta Highway by Emily Sharpiro.
Unfortunately, the fear cultists didn’t know what the device was and therefore it had the potential to be a smaller than a briefcase thermonuclear device. Which they subsequently exploded. Good move there!
The number of devices that fear cultists do not recognize is rather large. Some estimates put it as high as your odds of winning the lottery.
The traditional remedy would be to put a rope around the device and simply pull it off. It was obviously too small to do any serious damage and misplaced if it were meant to be a bomb. Take maybe 15 minutes and only stopping traffic for a few minutes.
But no, the fear cultists have to turn every art project, empty suitcase/backpack, cardboard box into a major security incident. How else to convince the public to subscribe to the terrorists are just around the corner fantasy?
One person was saying on the news than an apology, one assumes from the art project wasn’t enough. If any apology is owed it is by the fear cultists of Atlanta for interfering with a legitimate educational activity and annoying drivers with its anti-terror antics.
Yes, had it been a real bomb, badly placed, it might have damaged a few cars and possibly killed someone. You can watch the Atlanta news every night to hear about cars being damaged and people killed. Why a terrorist incident makes a difference to fear cultists, well, you would have to ask them, I have no idea.
To spend your security funds wisely, stay away from fear cultists who dodge and squeal at every unknown. Not only is it tiresome, it is also wasteful.