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I wish these same people taking up for this idiotic M.I.T. student with extremely poor taste would have reacted accordingly in the defense of the bipolar young man who was shot dead in Miami two years or so ago...not for having a bomb, not for saying he had a bomb (though the cops, security, etc...said so, but every single passenger around him denied him making ANY such remark)...but he did have a manic episode. This was while the plane was boarding...an easily handled situation. I'm a science teacher with a Master's degree...that doesn't qualify me as a circuit board expert, but my memory isn't so short that I don't remember Richard Wright, the "shoe bomber" arrested en route, in the air, with no indication of "putty"...often a component in explosives, or an exposed battery (yes, that size battery COULD cause an explosion...believe me). All you libertarians out there...do you not remember that most of the 911 planes took off from Logan? All of you who protest racial profiling, well, what the xxxx do you want the security guards to look for? If she wasn't suspicious, than who is? If she had been of Arab descent, these comments would be totally different, because that young person would be dead. Period. She is lucky to be alive. Yes, I think that some precautions are downright silly, and,yes,they are somethimes inconvenient. But erring on the side of caution is more important than this child's civil rights. I can't believe M.I.T.'s standards have been lowered to the point of allowing a creative "art" student into its prestigious technology program. The simple fact is, she is an idiot, period. Not just "tired", and not just not thinking...an IDIOT.
