Comments on: Homeland Stupidity: Security policies that place the public at risk

Homeland security officials seem to have adopted a naive and dangerous standard to detect bombs.

[Dalkorian]

That was it???

*THAT* was the supposed "improvised device" that Star Simpson got into
trouble for?

ROFLMAO!!!

Oh yeah, we're so much safer now than we were in 1999. Star could have
been *killed* for wearing *that*???

ROFLMAO!!!!

For some reason, I imagined something ... bigger. More. My mind made it
into a shirt of wires, lights and batteries, not a 2" X 4" test board. What
"explosives" did they think she was using on that, C4?? Where was this
supposed C4 supposed to be hidden, in her panties???

Am I the only one who sees how rediculous we have become???

[medpat31]

Play Doh!!!!!

It gets better. I caught a press confrence when this happened. I dont know who was speaking but they stated that she also had play doh in her hands. I cant imagine that this is even true.
why would she? it smells like backpedaling to me.

[welcometowallyworld]

How to get yourself arrested

What a moron - of course you're going to get arrested walking into an airport
wearing something like this. "Up there for thinking". I have absoluetly no
sympathy with this dumb cluck.

[Niven1]

Morons abound exponentially...

Having been in the US military 1984 till 1992, and having traveled extensively overseas and CONUS, it has been made more than clear to ANY sensible person boarding an airplane that you simply DONT do something as monumentally stupid as this and expect NOT to get shot on sight. Regardless of what she may say, she was attempting to-
-make a political statement/
-maybe step up to a VERY stupid 'I'll-bet-you-wont...!' something-or-other/
-some homemade and EXTREMELY stupid socio/corp/gov security test for a thesis, etc...
As a VERY 'privacy-oriented' concerned Citizen I understand her possible motivations and the motivation of all Americans who truly value privacy, yet as a former Marine tasked with protecting the lives of other Americans I would have come as close as you could possibly scientifically measure to exploding this VERY foolish young womans brain-housing-group into a pink spray with a 5.56mm or 9mm projectile.
Portraying the IMMEDIATE POTENTIAL for endangering the lives of Americans(by visually displaying a device that at first glance was created strictly to appear as
'an electronic device that was out-of-the-ordinary-and-potentially-a-bomb-detonator') is NOT the way to make a statement. By the way, her 'reported' statement about having 'forgotten' about having it on? BULLSH**! Who the hell does she think she's fooling other than herself? She's a dumba** and deserves whatever it is she gets.

[sarkeizen]

Yes morons do abound...

But it's this military guy who seems to be one of the biggest ones I've seen to date.

"it has been made more than clear to ANY sensible person boarding an airplane"

Except that this person wasn't boarding an airplane...think before you speak.

"that you simply DONT do something as monumentally stupid as this and expect NOT to get shot on sight."

Obviously years in the military has allowed you to believe that innocent people should be shot on site. Not helping the case for your intellect there...

"Portraying the IMMEDIATE POTENTIAL"

Only to the ignorant...since that is demonstrably the only group that reacted badly here (you included!).

"(by visually displaying a device that at first glance was created strictly to appear as
'an electronic device that was out-of-the-ordinary-and-potentially-a-bomb-detonator') is NOT the way to make a statement."

Again the moron is you. Even someone with an elementary electronics education can see the difficulty in portraying this as a bomb detonator. I admit that I haven't seen many - but I'm guessing you haven't seen ANY with flashing lights.