By the way, what's the deal with the hair? Is that a part of the "project" too?

Cool, huh, huh.

She really needs to have that smug slapped off her face.

By pretending to be a suicide bomber, and provoking an incident, she endangered the lives of all the bystanders as well as mocking the victims of those who target civilians with weapons of war in the name of Islam.

She should be charged as what she pretended to be... a suicide bomber.

If... and she opened a bucket-load of ifs...

...bystanders could have died in the hail of gunfire resulting from her prank.

It is a crime to brandish a firearm, and it is no excuse if later that firearm turns out to be a squirt gun. You can't claim it was 'art' to threaten someone.

She should do hard time.

The more that I think about this incident, the more that I am convinced that she was trying to make a point. She thought she could roam around the airport and nothing would happen. She could then bash the powers-that-be for not keeping airports safe. In the alternative, she might get arrested, in which case, she can scream and yell about living in a police state.

It's a win-win.

Simpson sure reminds me of another art kook that I know of. A well-known wacky local female artist once came to my Powell street TV shop and wanted to purchase some half-running TVs for some screwball art display. Amazingly she managed to pay the rent for years on a goofy art display called the "24 Hour Church Of Elvis", long after my Powell street TV shop closed it's doors due to declining business.

Art kooks sure seem hooked up wrong to me. Yet have a higher measure of success than they deserve for their foolishness for some odd reason. Go figure.

My job constantly reminds me intelligence does not equal common sense.

I wonder what MIT would have done if a normal looking while male walked around campus with a holstered, realistic, plastic 9mm pistol as an art project to bring attention to handgun deaths on college campi?

Or how about a group of a dozen or so performance artists sitting in a circle at the student union reading from the bible?

I think you have the wrong picture, is that Rufio?

wonder how the left would react if someone walked into an abortion clinic with what appeared to be a bomb, or an Uzi?

She should get at least a year in jail for this disruption.

You filed this under "Attention Whore". Nuff said.

"Your just jealous because she has brains and you dont!"

To paraphrase a much better known phrase: With brains like those, who needs brains?

Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art!
You're a headache in a suitcase
You're a star

You don't know how you got here
You just know you want out
Believing in yourself almost as much as you doubt
You're a big smash
You wear it like a rash...star

Her parents named her Star. That about sums it up for me.

Has Hillary, Edwards, or Obama denounced her yet? If not, we need to know why they support students wearing bomb-like amulets into airports. Is Malkin on it yet? How about the Perfesser?

I believe that everyone, including the security forces at logan, have missed the entire point.

This is an MIT student. Some of them tend to be geeky. They'll think it's cool to have a message board on their chest.

Similar to the AquaTeenHungerForce deal, the geeky toy IN NO WAY appears to be a bomb. Do you think an MIT student doesn't know what a bomb looks like?

Yes, stop the person, and verify that the device isn't suspisious or harmful. But, confronting this teen with submachine guns is slightly overkill.

Also, the charge of a 'hoax device'? How does this message board in any way resemble a bomb? I think such a charge should apply only to someone who is actually trying to intimidate using a bomb-like device, such as a abortion bomber or a bank robber.

The whole thing is 'blown' out of proportion.

Yes, I understand - you can't be too careful - this is LOGAN, after all.

Ok, first off, this is the first time I've seen the words "fake bomb" bandied about. It was a circuit board fastened to the outside of a sweatshirt. People might think it looks like what a bomb would look like (I myself would), but that doesn't make it a fake bomb. If someone wears one of those LED t-shirts inside out, does that make it a fake bomb? Get real.

Now, I personally don't think security overreacted. I think a little probation or fine would be enough to hammer home the point that just because you're from MIT doesn't mean you can act without thinking. Then again, considering dad's reaction, it probably wouldn't help.

Yep she is a goofball...
but less then this Republican Rep who is exposed? She trashes moveon...but when asked something as simple as "What is the name of the last person from your district to be killed in Iraq....she does not have a clue...(Support the troops?)
Which goofball is worse?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIlFsERnmk

...I linked this because...well no one here ever would..

editor's note: link edited because... well, I felt like it. J.

Ok, first off, this is the first time I've seen the words "fake bomb" bandied about. It was a circuit board fastened to the outside of a sweatshirt. People might think it looks like what a bomb would look like (I myself would), but that doesn't make it a fake bomb. If someone wears one of those LED t-shirts inside out, does that make it a fake bomb? Get real.

Acttually, the ensemble included a putty-like substace that she carried in each hand that looked like an explosive like C-4. It wasn't just a circuit board that caused people to react the way they did. The entire ensemble was intended to look like a suicide bomber. She clearly succeeded.

nogo, I've been reading message boards for over 10 years, and you just made the most off-topic post I can remember ever (except for the usual porn and viagra spam). Why don't you start posting your own blog posts on Wizbang Blue or something?

And by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

what's the deal with the hair? There have been a couple of stories that mentioned she has shaved her head and donated her hair to "charity". I saw a story on last night's news aboout a little Iraqi girl, a burn victim, who'd received a wig from a charitable organization. So her "hair" may not be so much a fashion statement as a compassion statement.

We need not focus on her appearance or her motives, but rather her poor judgment...

She coul;d have saved time and got the same reaction by saying, "Boo".

BTW, those who actually are carrying bombs in an airport don't advertise it.

She is from Maui. It made the papers here. What can you expect from an island full of moonbats? The most revered politician here is Kucinich.

My first reaction would be to shoot the person in the head, then ask questions.

Nogo all link and no think. Typical democrat.

Shoot 'em all, let God sort out the vain.
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Lack of judgement seems to be a common denominator for Star and NoGo.

I for one would like to see one of those paparazi wacks trip on their mike cords and bust their wittle noses

for a moment there I thought it was a picture of Bea Arthur...OOFAH!

I predict the charges will be dropped in a couple of weeks, after Martha Coakley gets off the rag.

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page300.html

I'm with Steve L, though I won't give her credit for having thought of both possibilities. But definitely, if she had not been stopped then we'd be reading about the incompetence of Homeland Security and GWB.

The line that got me - "Then he boasted that his daughter went to a park after she was freed on $750 bail to "stretch her arms because she had been in a small room for hours and hours."
I can't even figure out what the angle on this is. Poor girl, being held in such cruel conditions? (like we're to believe she was being confined to a dishwasher shipping crate). Or was it a, "She's so real, and such a free spirit? She enjoys the simple things like going to a park to stretch her arms?"

I'm with Steve L, though I won't give her credit for having thought of both possibilities. But definitely, if she had not been stopped then we'd be reading about the incompetence of Homeland Security and GWB
And if she hadn't immediately complied with the cops, we would have been reading about the incompetent, trigger-happy cops shooting an MIT student in the head.
Remember, if they think you're a suicide bomber, they're going to shoot you in the head to kill you quick and not accidentally set off the bomb.