China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons

An anonymous reader writes: A pleasant event was planned for the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. A ceremony at Tiananmen Square would release 10,000 pigeons at sunrise to symbolize an era of peace. Unfortunately, even symbols of peace can apparently remind people of violence. Chinese authorities searched all 10,000 pigeons for "dangerous materials," after the government was concerned they might be used for attacks. The pigeons' feathers were checked, and they were given a cavity search as well. The reports did not indicate what kind of "dangerous materials" these pigeons might be carrying. It's unclear whether any pigeons disclosed terror plots under interrogation.

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hah, thats amateur.

[nimbius]

You'll have to go a lot further if you want to come close to United States levels of paranoia. We once shut down the entire city of boston because we couldnt tell the difference between a light-up sign and a bomb. Our monument to the last major terrorist attack on america is so heavily fortified its nicknamed "fear tower" and the public park in front of it requires extensive security screening as well as a reservation just to get in. We once spent 3 trillion dollars attacking a country that not only had nothing to do with 9/11, but that we supported extensively in the past. We used the phrase 'support the troops,' a sentiment also used by Nazi Germany, to make sure our citizens went along with a war we couldnt win. We've shamed and humiliated entire generations of US Citizens in our zeal to ensure the elderly and children arent carrying explosives. Hell, we once had a color coded scare-o-meter to tell people how nervous they should feel on any given day.

It's still better than using

[Anonymous Coward]

the comment field as the first half of a sentence.

Slightly.