Posted on 09/22/2007 8:55:30 AM PDT by RogerFGay
You have to admit it is a staggering display of ignorance. This is somebody that is so self-centered that she has no idea that there are things happening out in the real world that actually matter to some people. The world is her personal plaything. She thinks her cynicism is a license to pretend superiority. It’s arrogance. Simple as that.
“Is it just because news reports told you it was a “fake bomb” - Star Simpson never described it that way.”
Is that the point to you? She didn’t say it was a fake bomb so it isn’t? Gotcha.
“Socket to me”? Yeah, she thought long and hard on that one, I’ll bet. Comedic genius.
Didn’t they shoot and kill a fella a couple years ago claiming to have a bomb? IIRC, they shot him on the plane at the airport. This girl is lucky.
And the guy who wrote this article.
I guess then I can have a real bomb. Just as long as I don't describe it that way.
And Star is one of them. So is the author of this piece, who also needs a dictionary. There is nothing "Courageous" about this article.
Is he going to be fired? Thrown in jail? Refused service at the local bar?
No.
If he keeps patting himself on the back like this for nothing then he is going to throw his shoulder out.
So all a terrorist has to do now is disguise their bomb with a socket board or a Litebright, and wear a sweatshirt with a cool, but nerdy slogan on it.
Dec 9, 2005
Man Shot Near Plane Did Not Yell About a Bomb, Witnesses Say
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US Federal Air Marshals shot to death Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, a Florida resident and employee of a local Home Depot on a runway at Miami-Dade Airport this past Wednesday, December 7, 2005. Alpizar had no criminal record and may have been suffering a panic attack or other symptom of his bipolar disorder when he ran off of his plane and onto the runway.
Miami-Dade police were quick to make official statements saying that many people heard the man yelling that he had a bomb. Alpizar ran off the plane clutching his bag. The police agency’s chief of investigations also made an official statement and insisted that Alpizar was yelling that he had a bomb. No police officers besides the two Marshals were on the plane, however.
Good points. And not just a "post-9/11" airport, but the origin of two of the planes hijacked on 9/11.
the play-dough clearly represented “plastiqe”......had she known the green stuff packs more of a wallop than the white stuff does, she’d have used green play dough, I am sure.
(I’m sure there other colors of it today, so freely admit that white/green dates me, LOL)
This girl may have had the book smarts to get into MIT, but she’s DUMB when it comes to anything resembling common sense!
You’d think that somebody who is going to MIT would have learned the scientific fact that the world revolves around the sun, not around students at MIT and their cloistered lifestyle. If she is clever enough, she won’t have to learn this lesson twice.
If that's the case it could be totally innocent, but the girl lacks common sense. The police did the right thing to arrest and investigate.
If this person had been a student at Bunker Hill Community College instead of MIT, no one would be defending her.
But the Bunker Hill students are smart enough not to do anything that stupid.
Wonder what a homemade suicide bomb would look like... wires, circuit board, battery...
After all, it was only box cutters.
“I have no idea what a real bomb looks like,” writes a blogger at machinist.salon.com, “but I don’t think it’s a plastic board with a 9-volt battery on it.”
Um... Why not? Star is lucky she didn’t get shot in the head.
This sort of display could easily be used by a real terrorist as a distraction from the activities of an accomplice who’s about to set off a real bomb, or from the fact that the same terrorist also has a real bomb or real bomb components in addition to the fake. Zero tolerance for this sort of thing is appropriate. There’s no need to wait for a bunch of other people in the terminal to notice it and get scared, and say to a friend “That isn’t a bomb, is it?”, only to have someone overhear that and start panickingand repeating “Theres’ a bomb!”.
Same for the crazy guy who ran screaming down the aisle of a plane that was about to take off (according to a couple of passengers, including something about a “bomb” in the course of his screamings), and got shot dead by an air marshal. It was appropriate to shoot him first and find out what he was really up to later. His wife knew he was mentally unstable and falling apart at the prospect of the flight, and pressured him to get on anyway — all without bothering to alert the gate or flight personnel of his mental condition. Imagine if we just let people do this. How long would it take real terrorists to stage something similar to set up a distraction, to enable them to do something that will result in disaster?
Carrying something that looks like a bomb into an airport is beyond stupid. The girl soes to MIT so she is not intellectually retarded. IMO this was an act designed to be intentionally provocative and show contempt for authority and airport security. The defense that it wasn’t really a bomb, that it is art, is absurd, as is the argument that anyone who knows bombs wouldn’t mistake it for one. People who do and defend s*** like this want anarchy and should be locked up.
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