Article: At Logan Airport, the art of disturbing the peace

THE PEACE at Logan Airport was disturbed last week by the appearance of a 19-year-old student who was wearing what appeared to be the elements of a bomb ("Student causes scare at Logan with shirt `art'," Page A1, Sept. 22). We have been asked by her friends and professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to forgive Star Simpson as having been innocent of the potential consequences of her dress and demeanor.

While she might be innocent of intent to alarm, the reaction of our security forces is fully justified. I could understand the use of deadly force first instead of a request for surrender. We can't afford to have our security forces looking for ways to excuse what clearly looks ...

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