She also founded the school's chess club as a freshman and was inducted into Hawai'i Prep's Cum Laude academic society in her junior year, Kanekuni said.
At this point, I'm voting for "brilliant but clueless" rather than "rabid leftist making a stupid political statement." It may not have occurred to her that this circuit board artwork might look like a bomb to an airport guard.
It's disturbing how many posters on this board are completely certain what to make of every new event, regardless of whether any actual facts are available.
This is precisely the sort of knee-jerk response we rightly criticize on the other side.
But aren’t you making a judgement based on the same info available to us all? Giving someone the benefit of the doubt in this situation simply gets innocent people killed.
I agree. She’s brilliant.
A friend of mine was once detained at the airport and questioned by the FBI because the guards saw an item in his luggage that they thought looked like a bomb. It was a chess clock. This was long before 9/11.
And the Play Dough in her hand would look much like a plastic explosive.
She's 19 and was into computers and robotics. If she thinks an ugly circuit board, battery, and lights that looks like some elementary school kid's project is art she is not just clueless but also tasteless.
It just doesn't add up. Art takes some thought and creativity even for a clueless genius. This would have taken all of 5 minutes for her to put together.
This is precisely the sort of knee-jerk response we rightly criticize on the other side.
It is illegal to carry anything that looks like a bomb into an airport. Genuine Imitation Composition 4 (Playdoh?), battery and wires look like bomb components. Where’s the “knee jerk reaction”? Should there be an age limit - say the law should only apply to people over 35 with a proven IQ over 100?
This is precisely the sort of knee-jerk response we rightly criticize on the other side.
Ah, but the secret is that there really is no difference between the ones on "our" side and the ones on other side. Which faction a paranoid personality allies with doesn't matter so much - the reactions and results are exactly the same.
These people aren't allies of conservatives nor liberals nor any good Americans - they just like to hang around political sites and indulge in their morbid "We're all going to die if we don't kill them first!" fantasies.
This is precisely the sort of knee-jerk response we rightly criticize on the other side.
Ah, but the secret is that there really is no difference between the ones on "our" side and the ones on other side. Which faction a paranoid personality allies with doesn't matter so much - the reactions and results are exactly the same.
These people aren't allies of conservatives nor liberals nor any good Americans - they just like to hang around political sites and indulge in their morbid "We're all going to die if we don't kill them first!" fantasies.
“it’s disturbing how many posters on this board are completely certain what to make of every new event, regardless of whether any actual facts are available.”
Agreed. Poor kid.