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A Gauge of What has been Forgotten

20070201adpromosm.jpgBOSTON– (Boston Herald)- [1]A furious Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed yesterday to throw the book at the masterminds behind a guerrilla marketing campaign gone amok that plunged the city into bomb-scare pandemonium and blew nearly $1 million in police overtime and other costs.

As city and state attorneys laid groundwork for restitution requests, cops seized 27-year-old Arlington multimedia artist Peter Berdovsky, who posted film on his Web site boasting that he and and Sean Stevens, 28, of Charlestown, planted the battery-wired devices.

One of these morons, if he isn’t long-term jailed, will most certainly be deported, being originally from Belarus, and here on some kind of a visiting visa. (Afraid I’ve not gotten details on that one yet. )

While the screams of the city fathers as regards the disruption of the day to day life and commerce in Boston are quite correct, those concerns are secondary in my view. The big concern here is the large number of people who are claiming that the Boston police overreacted to the situation. Apparently, those making the claim have forgotten that less than a mile from where one of these things was hung, a pair of 9/11 hijackers got on the plane with the intent to crash it into the World Trade Center.

That, I think, is the real story here… The question asked a few years ago, “Have you forgotten?” [2] apparently has been answered, in large part, with a ‘yes’.