I'm good with everything MB except the "looking for trouble" part. She did not have anything "strapped to her chest", she was wearing a homemade sweatshirt with a circuit board attached to it that had a green flashing star on it. I'm guessing the "star" was to match-up with and provide a visual reminder of what her name was to the people at career day. It's kind of popular with kids these days to have shit with flashing lights on them. Sneakers, hats, shirts, whatever...I think the 9 volt battery hanging off the front of her homemade deal was the problem. Should she have known not to wear that to the airport? These days, probably, yeah, she maybe should have known better but college kids...and the ones from MIT really fall into this category...sometimes have way too much other shit on their mind to sort out what they should or should not wear. She probably never gave it a thought and just headed out to meet her friends coming in from Oakland.

What really made me sick today were all the people on the radio claiming they should have executed her right there in the airport because in their minds "that would have sent the right message to the terrorists."

Holy shit! What message is that? That we have gone completely batshit in this country! If we start shooting freshman college girls at the airport for wearing a sweatshirt with flashing lights the fucking terrorists really have won because we're doing their job for them!