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Article: At Logan Airport, the art of disturbing the peace
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2007
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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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