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Why would you walk into an airport wearing something like this? Of course free expression is a necessary component to a vital democracy, but so is exercising discretion. Judging reactions to other LED devices, people should know by now to leave their crazy, electronic-laden clothing at home with their nail trimmers and bottles of liquid.

As dumb as it seems to wear LEDS/circuits/hold random clay-like objects in your hand in an airport today, it still sucks bigtime its come to this. And the fact that in the end SHE has to do community service? What the fuck for?

Man this is fucked.

While I agree to a point, it’s not completely unreasonable to expect people to leave big hunks of electronics at home instead of attaching it to their clothing or strapping to a bridge (the ATHF thing). Naturally, terrorists wouldn’t wear things like this, but there’s something to be said for piece of mind for the other passengers.

Personally, when it comes to my safety on a big airplane I’d rather the authorities be over-vigilant in airports than lax, which is too often the case.

Unreal. This is what it’s come to.

I don’t think the authorities did anything wrong. In recent years, seemingly normal people have commited act of violence on college campuses, high scools, shopping malls, ect. What was she thinking wearing something like that to the airport? I might have shot on, strictly on principle.

So she has some weird things on her. Take her to the side, verify what they are, then let her on her way.

Its freaking ridiculous. They can do anything they want and charge us with any thing they can think of.

This is not a free country.

Lawsuit!!

America is no longer a free country, pure and simple. America has become so afraid of its own shadow that in the knee-jerk it has given up most of what its fore-fathers fought so hard for. The terrorists have already won and America doesn’t even realise it. Actions like this are just the tip of the iceberg. Get used to it. All those security organisations have to be seen to be doing something.

America is no longer a free country, pure and simple. America has become so afraid of its own shadow that in the knee-jerk it has given up most of what its fore-fathers fought so hard for. The terrorists have already won and America doesn’t even realise it. Actions like this are just the tip of the iceberg. Get used to it. All those security organisations have to be seen to be doing something.

See Mr. Alex below? This is why we’ve got police doing things like this. To heck with your freedoms, don’t you realize we’re in a national crisis? D<

If you don’t like it, then leave the country! Just as soon as they let you through airport security …

Wow.

Screw the police. I’d have body slammed her ass to the floor, put my heel to her throat and kicked all the teeth out of her mouth.

No way does anybody with half a brain walk into an airport with that kind of garbage on their shirt.

Dumbass skirt.

Yes, she should have been aware that dumb people are afraid of blinky things. And maybe she should have been aware that dumb people are afraid of brown people. And maybe she should have been aware that dumb people are more concerned about “furrin’ terrerists” than they are about fundamental liberties and living in an open society.

But she wasn’t aware of these things, and now she and the rest of the world know that America is, in fact, full of dumb people who live in a state of constant fear.

Chalk another victory up for the terrorists. For the low, low price of 19 airline tickets, the majority of the US lives in abject terror that every purse they see might be a bomb, that every bottle of water is a liquid explosive, that every bearded Arabic man they meet is secretly plotting their assassination, and that these threats are sufficient cause to abandon our freedoms for the illusion of security.

USA! USA! USA! Woooooo!!

I would not have cooperated (short of resisting and getting shot off course I am not stupid)

I would NOT have let them get my finger prints
I would NOT have let them get my mug shot

I would have told them to F OFF I would have told that judge to F OFF and I definately would have spoken my mouth off to the media.

I would have told him to shove his 50 hours up his ass that HE DAMNED WELL KNOWS I did nothing wrong.

THATS what I would have done.