Star Simpson's first interview on Boston airport LED terror scare

[eligray]

This girl is from my MIT dorm =)

We're CRAZY motherfuckers

[zillsburyy]

stupid bitch!

[ribhkum]

what mildly intelligent person does'nt know that any kind of action at an airport has to be taken very seriously ! terrorist bombings are not funny! is she saying that it did not even cross her mind that it might cause alarm?

[BullyCopThreatenedM2]

We know now WHO was/is responsible for 9/11.

Yet -- individuals still get into trouble for something we KNOW WHO did!

[lwiniarski]

A truly remarkable story of incompetent and corrupt officials creating trumped up charges to further their own careers. How did these people get in positions of authority? How did the media (except for boing-boing) competely get this story utterly wrong? She deserves a formal apology.

I honestly wish she would have fought this more publicly. People need to know the true character of some of our elected officials and sometimes it takes cases like this to bring the truth out.

[hallucinaJason]

words fail me.

This if fucked (excuse my lack of vocabulary. there are some people who should have there right to breed taken away. im terrified. may the people who put her though this suffer.

[megamarsvin]

Normally I'd suggest sue the government for false imprisonment and emotional damages (which I don't think is unreasonable when the police threaten to shoot you for no reason) but in the current paranoid climate in the US she might end up in Guantanamo for protesting too much >_>

[kissmywookie]

The USA needs man up and grow a pair. You realize that in 2001, 42,116 people died in car crashes. That's 14 times the number of people who deaths are related to the 9/11 attacks. Let's review terrorist attacks on US soil...

Sept 16, 1920 - NYC 35 dead

Jan 24, 1975 - also NYC 4 dead

Feb 26, 1993 - NYC again, 6 dead

Apr 19, 1995 - Oklahoma, 168 dead

Sept 11, 2001 - Various cities, 2997 dead.

FACE IT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE IN A TERRORIST ATTACK!

stop being so afraid of everything!

[int3rl0per]

She has my sympathies.

Why is it, that nobody calmed down and just listened to reason? "Look, it's a battery and a few LEDs, it's not connected to anything. It's got a couple of blinking lights, and I'll put it away if you want to." should have been enough. But goddamn community service? For wearing a BLINKING LIGHT?!

Personally, the US of A is a country I will not go near until after the revolution. I'm not looking to get killed by some dumb security guard over, say, a laptop...

[datruesouljah]

i can absolutly guarentee you that probably, with out a doubt in my mind that i may have some doubts. that is to say... I promise that any half truth, is in fact...half lie. ofcourse this goes without saying,however 9 out of 10 dentists cant be wrong. which is why there is no reason what so ever that this reason is not a good reason. in closing, i would like to say... i will always be on time, unless im late. thank you and we will win this war on terror.

[apluce21]

Keep Fighting, You should have spoken publicly from the very beginning in my opinion

[inthefade]

So she's just a nerdy hippy girl who stuck a breadboard to hear sweater and ALL OF THIS? Americans are fucking stupid.

Such a monoculture, it makes me want to puke.

[ptracy4]

Yeah, those stupid Americans invented the Internet. I'm signing out.

[GEOAMPAS]

poor girl, why did she have to pass all of that.

Couldnt they just check her and let her go.

you americans behave soooooo stupid

[clearmenser]

not all of us, just the americans in power and the ones with guns.

[GEOAMPAS]

I am not accusing all of you. But that's hysteria.

Nevertheless that girl in addition to all the changes is her life was forced to quit MIT as well. And it aint easy to be accepted there.

[vonversace]

force to quit MIT, wow.