Yeah, it does seem like a strangely made for TV moment. But also FBI are mormon puritans who probably would feel guilty about writing naughty swear words. To say nothing of the fact in their right-wing brains they can’t conceive of why anyone would be against it so in trying to grasp for something against it their brains fail as after all there’s nothing wrong with it, so in a panic they just write “anti-ice” because searching their brain’s filing cabinets for “anti-ice slogans that look good on TV” turned up nothing.
Yeah, it does seem like a strangely made for TV moment. But also FBI are mormon puritans who probably would feel guilty about writing naughty swear words. To say nothing of the fact in their right-wing brains they can’t conceive of why anyone would be against it so in trying to grasp for something against it their brains fail as after all there’s nothing wrong with it, so in a panic they just write “anti-ice” because searching their brain’s filing cabinets for “anti-ice slogans that look good on TV” turned up nothing.
Never underestimate a Mormon’s ability to rationalize contradictions.