Star Simpson: A National Hero...

Star Simpson was making a political statement by carrying the fake bomb ART into the airport. She is the real victim here not the people who had to wait for hours for their flight or missed it entirely. She is a true national hero not that other guy at the Kerry event.

What right do people have to subdue and arrest people that are simple trying to display their art?




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The love child of Star Jones and Homer Simpson? Or OJ Simpson?

Star and Andrew should splinter off and form a new "Look At Me I'm Liberal!" sect of the Democratic party.

Funded by MoveOn.org of course :evilgrin:

There was no "fake bomb." :shrug:

I saw nothing that looked like a bomb.

You know I'm joking I hope?

But others are OFFENDED due to the actions of a STUPID STUDENT. :eyes:

Obviously, her concept of "art" is unusual, but she's a techie. On the other hand, she is fully capable of knowing what a real bomb would look like -- and she didn't make one!

It was the equivalent of falsely yelling "Fire" in a crowded theatre.

For years, we sold attractive time bomb clocks in our American handicrafts store. We were only partly kidding when we carefully instructed our customers not to mail them to government officials.

I don't think we would sell them now, however.

You have to be spectacularly tone deaf to carry anything that could be mistaken for a bomb into an airport. Same goes for considering such defective behavior as "heroism."

that morning and forgot what she had stuck on her jacket to wear to a Career day the day before. MIT students are not known for their care with their attire.

By the way, to a techie that silly lit-up star on a circuit board would look totally innocuous. If she had actually wanted to build a fake bomb, I'm sure she could have done a much better job.

She could have gotten shot, and John Gibson would have praised it by writing an essay titled, 'Five in the Noggin'

It was just a little circuit board with a 9 volt battery that lit up an array of lights in a star shape.

No self-respecting MIT student would design a fake bomb that looked like THAT. If she had intended to fashion a fake bomb, it would have looked like one.

As it was, she said she had stuck the thing on her jacket in order to draw attention to herself at Career day, the day before. She obviously either forgot it was there, or didn't realize that many of us are so paranoid or so dumb that we could mistake the thing for a bomb.

For a picture, see here:

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/09/21/star_simpson/

"Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT student, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Boston's Logan Airport when officers suspected that a circuit board and battery she had pinned to her sweatshirt was a bomb. Indeed, every news outlet is now referring to the thing as a "fake bomb," and Simpson has been charged with possessing a "hoax device."
"But pictures of the sweatshirt that officials are putting out show something quite less scary -- I have no idea what a real bomb looks like, but I don't think it's a plastic board with a 9-volt battery on it. Simpson's explanation is that the jacket was a wearable-art project she made so she could stand out at her school's career day (the plastic board lights up). All information now streaming in supports that view, and suggests that the affair could have been a misunderstanding, one that very nearly turned tragic.
"This is my speculation only, but it seems quite possible that rather than intending to deliberately walk into Logan with a fake bomb, Simpson might instead have rolled out of bed with an art jacket she often wore around campus and slipped it on in a rush on her way to pick up a friend -- forgetting that she was heading into the all-fear-all-the-time black hole that is U.S. aviation."

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who are so paranoid these days -- and so willing to blame a student for forgetting what a police state we're now living in.

That thing stuck on her back looks NOTHING like a bomb. It looks like the kind of toy my ten year olds used to play with -- all it is is a circuit board with a 9 volt battery that makes some lights turn on in the shape of a star.

stupid to think it was bomb. But in fear nation, you have everything to fear. A great civil disobedience would be to have a group of say 100 or so people at various airports around the United States on the same day wearing similar art... just to show how fucking stupid people have become these days.

The average American *IS*, in fact, pretty stupid
and growing stupider and more paranoid by the day.
Only an idiot would have mistaken her device for
a bomb.

Tesha

She accomplished nothing of value. The authorities will probably act in a more paranoid manner now as a result.

apparently.

I'm sure she never dreamed that anyone could think that lit-up star on her jacket was a bomb.

She wasn't trying to accomplish anything except to pick her boyfriend up at the airport. Unfortunately, the same jacket with the circuit board she had been wearing around campus for several days -- with no misunderstandings -- raised an alarm at the airport.

Blame her for lack of common sense, perhaps, but that's all.