Comments on: Star Simpson talks about her arrest at Boston airport – for wearing an LED sweatshirt

By: energon international

energon international — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:28:33 +0000

it should have been examined like any other electronic device, no more, no less homerule strategies

By: Chris Taylor Jr

Chris Taylor Jr — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:26:06 +0000

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.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:20:01 +0000

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!!

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:01:33 +0000

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 …

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:32:44 +0000

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:15:52 +0000

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:15:52 +0000

By: JASON

JASON — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:11:34 +0000

Lawsuit!!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:49:58 +0000

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.

By: gi joe

gi joe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:38:19 +0000

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.

By: Jameson

Jameson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:27:15 +0000

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.

By: Shawn Farner

Shawn Farner — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:10:46 +0000

Unreal. This is what it’s come to.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:10:23 +0000

I’m with you but I also have to take the opposite view: any terrorist worth his or her salt probably won’t be carrying semtex in a little baggie next to the detonator attached to her shirt. Because we cannot “see” terrorists, we look for obvious identifiers and often fail. To extrapolate, because we cannot see criminals, we look to obvious identifiers (race, class, dress) and profile, creating animosity and rarely catching real criminals. Sadly, this sort of behavior simply breeds contempt rather than catching evil-doers.

By: bpm2000

bpm2000 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:49:10 +0000

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.

By: Jameson

Jameson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:49:07 +0000

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.