My Courageous Stand with Star Simpson

MensNewsDaily.com ^ | September 22, 2007 | Roger F. Gay

[D Rider]

Don't even try to answer the responses. It's just like the evil gun, "it scares me!." Well boo hoo, I was twice as old as Star is now a decade ago, and I could make poison gas bombs when I was in high school, and made bazooka's in college for rabbit hunting. Never hurt anyone and never will.

Engineers and scientist are a small minority. The good news is that most tend to be very rational and mild mannered. The group that sociopaths come from is not generally included in this crowd, although it makes for a great movie.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

So if she were shot by a security guard, can we assume that the “art piece” would have ended slightly after the bullet left the guard’s gun? Or, would the guard have grounds to claim he was just joining in with the performance? With her dead body on the airport floor, would the parents then likely join in simulated grief to continue the performance art piece? And then, would they sue the guard co and the airport authority as a further extension, accepting, should they win, monopoly money? Who would get to decide exactly where this exercise turned from art piece into reality?

[fish hawk]

If this idiot girl went to the Mid East she would be run over by a Caterpillar and you are too dumb to be a Freeper.

[MEG33]

Would you wear her garb inside an airport?

[BuckyKat]

Maybe the right shirt, but wrong place to wear it. Too many itchy fingers in the airport, she is lucky she is not worm bait

Her total lack of "thinking" in this case is even more incomprehensible considering that pretty much everyone living in Hawaii has a lot of experience with airports and security regs. Our two college kids have known for many, many years what not to say or wear on a trip to the airport.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Wah, wah, wah.

I want to be famous too.

Can I just write the word “GUN” in big black magic marker on a piece of white cardboard shaped like a gun and try to get through airport security?

I can call it art and then I can be famous when I’m arrested.

What an ahole.

[Erik Latranyi]

She never suggested to anyone that it was a fake bomb. It was just a socket board.

So, what you are saying is that nobody should be alarmed by a person entering an airport with a socket board and wires attached to their body?

Is that your position?

The fact that this "bright" student could not foresee the consequences bring into question her judgement.

But, as you know, society is filled with highly educated people with no common sense.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

And nowhere does the idiot author mention that on flight 93 the terrorists did in fact use a laptop and clay block and battery to emulate a bomb.

Any type of computer circuitry hooked up to a batter I’d want to have investigated and the carrier pulled off their intended flight.

This is especially important knowing the history of that group of “muslim musicians,” each of whom carried a component, who made a test run of assembling a bomb based on those components.

[BuckyKat]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology classmates described the 19-year-old brainiac as a strange, kindhearted “character” who walks city streets barefoot and shaved her head last year so she could donate her hair to charity.

Nice gesture but another very strange move. Our daughter has donated her hair to charity a couple of times, and each time has gotten a nice free haircut and style for her gift. You don't have to cut it *all* off.

[Christian4Bush]

Wonder what a homemade suicide bomb would look like... wires, circuit board, battery... After all, it was only box cutters.

I travel back and forth to India just about every year. Of my secven trips, only two came before 9/11. Even before 9/11, one of the things that was not allowed in carryon luggage was extra batteries - "extra" defined as more batteries than needed for the particular device. In your checked luggage, you could restock Duracell...but not in the carryon luggage.

[geopyg]

“On college campuses throughout the country fall delivers chillier weather, colored leaves, and students with socket-boards, 9-volt batteries, and little flashing lights.”

Ah yes - takes me back to my college days when we would hang out with our vacuum tubes and leaky cardboard batteries and impress prospective employers waving our slide rules shouting “Engineers RULE!”

[billbears]

After reading the posts on this thread, it's quite evident our government has done quite a good job of establishing a version of 'safety' to the general citizenry. It was a shirt. I have seen a shirt similar to this in the past, thought it was sort of dumb, but never mistook it for a 'bomb'.

Of course the majority of the media will play it up and we'll have yet another layer of 'safety' introduced. For the children or some nonsense...Personally I can't wait for the day the government requires we show up at the airport nude. And there will be sheep even then claiming it's for our 'safety'.

[trisham]

and you are too dumb to be a Freeper

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Repetition for emphasis.

[billbears]

BTW, welcome to ‘new’ conservatism. The State always knows best, obey all rules (especially arbitrary ones our leaders can change at whim), and public statements of individuality are only acceptable if they make a partisan statement in a negative fashion about Democrats..

[maggief]

A man who identified himself as Tim Anderson, boyfriend of Massachusetts Institute of Technology sophomore Star Simpson, sits in court during her arraignment Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. Simpson was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device after being arrested at gunpoint at Logan International Airport while wearing a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt. She had come to the airport to meet the flight on which Anderson arrived. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, Pool)

[Wings-n-Wind]

I think the only idiot here is Star Simpson.

She will go to jail...

[freekitty]

The police did the right thing; especially when you have a person walking around that is obviously short of a full deck.

[river rat]

"She never suggested to anyone that it was a fake bomb. It was just a socket board.

She didn't NEED to say it was a bomb...
Folks smarter than yourself, could immediately recognize what it RESEMBLED.....
She was correctly charged with bringing a fake device into the airport....

The clever little bitch is very fortunate she wasn't shot.

Yes, it was "just a socket board", rigged with play dough that mimics C4 or Semtex plastic explosives, with the necessary wiring and battery present to detonate that explosive...

If you're really so ignorant of the reality of the appearance -- then arguing with you is futile...

Try walking through your airport with just a bundle of broom sticks cut to 1 foot lengths, painted red with a bit of twine dangling from the tops -- and see if you don't get stopped or shot for not stopping.....

Some folk's "sense of humor" truly indicates their total lack of common sense....

[mkmensinger]

“She will go to jail...”

And she should consider herself lucky she’s not on her way to Boot Hill. What a maroon!

[A.A. Cunningham]