I haven't seen information that she intended any sort of political statement. Do you have a source, or are you just making stuff up?
I haven't seen information that she intended any sort of political statement.
I think you are on the right track. The early news reports made it sound like a student activist wore a fake bomb strapped to her chest and walked into the airport as 'performance art.'
What I've read since then is a very different story. The girl is a good student majoring in Electrical Engineering. MIT had a career fair that day, and wanting to stand out, she dressed up in a funny costume that had a circuit board with a flashing star on the front, and her major 'Course VI' written on the back of her sweatshirt. (Not the way I'd try to impress a future employer, but MIT is MIT). She was so proud of her costume that she decided to wear it to the airport to meet her boyfriend later that day. She didn't make any threatening moves, and no one even noticed her until she walked up to the information desk to ask when her boyfriend's flight was arriving. Rather than asking her 'what in the world do you have on your sweatshirt?' and informing her that it really wasn't appropriate to wear something like that to an airport in these times, the person at the information desk presses the panic button. Five minutes later the SWAT team arrives with submachine guns.
It seems like equal parts stupidity by a college student who should have known better than to wear a funny costume to an airport, and over-reaction by an airport security staff that didn't use common sense.