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Being perfectly honest, her device could be confusing in an airport context, given the fact that you never know who is the person you deal with. I can understan

by peakok 18y ago

Being perfectly honest, her device could be confusing in an airport context, given the fact that you never know who is the person you deal with. I can understand the arrest, but not what has happened next. The press seems to have been called too early and my guess is that the officials didn't want to look like fools when their sensationalistic "suicide bomber" story - that was supposed to get them promoted - just vanished. "Suicide bomber arrest" was the first thing I ever heard about this story in a french newspaper. If the lies didn't spread so fast, the story wouldn't have gotten so big and the officials would prolly have released her the next hour with no charges at all. Fuck that, I hope she recovers well.

jrockway 18y ago
If the lies didn't spread so fast, the story wouldn't have gotten so big and the officials would prolly have released her the next hour with no charges at all. This is all the more reason to hold the government accountable for their actions. They did not deserve to win this case and ruin Star's life. Why don't the TSA employees go to jail when actual bombs get past the security checkpoints? That's an actual risk. Oh right, it blows the illusion of security theater. Never mind. I thought we were actually trying to protect the traveling public there for a second. Silly me.
- tjic 18y ago
  Geez, the drama. How has her life been ruined?
  - hbien 18y ago
    She had to drop out of MIT and move out of Boston because of jerks spitting in her face, who think the media gave them 100% of the story that she tried to do a "bomb hoax".