Create an LED T-shirt and Get Arrested

[NormaRegula]

Just read about a M.I.T student wearing a LED display t-shirt who was arrested for "wearing a false bomb" by the authorities from a friend who still believes the Democratic Party will save America. The story is interesting...and outrageous.

_http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070921_mit_student_arrested_for_wearing_suspicious_circuitry/

The fact that Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies would arrest someone wearing such creativity in the interests of public protection is ridiculous. Is there a law against such apparel?

Here is a site that gives directions on how to make these kinds of shirts: _http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/DIY%20T-Shirt%20Instructions.pdf

There are other sites out there that give ideas, pictures, etc. It's becoming a popular Geeky craft activity on campuses. My husband and I were about to make a LED shirt for ourselves. Sheesh. Crazy paranoid ponerization in action.

 

[anart]

Yes, it was covered on the Signs page this morning - http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/140252-MIT+student+arrested+at+Logan+in+Playdough+bomb+hoax

I think the point was that she was in an airport - with exposed wires, a circuit board on her chest and a clump of playdough in her hand.

All in all, not a wise way to dress when one is going to the airport. She was almost shot.

Yes, it's fascist, and yes, it's hysterical, but would you go into an airport these days with wires and a circuit board taped to your shirt? It wasn't the smartest move on her part, living in the police state that she does (we do). One should always depend on the ignorance, paranoia and hysteria of airport employees.

I'm not saying what happened isn't outrageous - just that it's a sign of the times and not the first and I can't imagine how, after the cartoon network viral ad campaign 'fake bomb' thing last year (which was also in Boston) that anyone would think they'd not get a bad reaction by walking into an airport wearing that.

They shouldn't get a bad reaction, but the time has long passed when what 'should' happen 'does' happen in America.

 

[NormaRegula]

Missed the SOTT article...now I see it. Thanks.

I think the point was that she was in an airport - with exposed wires, a circuit board on her chest and a clump of playdough in her hand.

All in all, not a wise way to dress when one is going to the airport. She was almost shot.

Yes, it's fascist, and yes, it's hysterical, but would you go into an airport these days with wires and a circuit board taped to your shirt - it wasn't the smartest move on her part, living in the police state that she does. One should always depend on the ignorance, paranoia and hysteria of airport employees.

Yeah, I certainly had no plans of wearing it while at an airport. I'd like to make one to wear to an outdoor party in San Francisco...sans the clump of playdough in my hand. The question becomes...is it worth risking some SF street cop thinking my electrical engineer hubby and I are terrorist hoaxsters? Probably not.

 

[anart]

The question becomes...is it worth risking some SF street cop thinking my electrical engineering hubby and I are terrorist hoaksters? Probably not.

Yeah, and it's ridiculous we even have to think that way, isn't it?

 

[Mark]

I think the point was that she was in an airport - with exposed wires, a circuit board on her chest and a clump of playdough in her hand.

That's definitely asking for trouble.

 

[Nienna]

I'm wondering if so many people still don't understand that we already live in a fascist state so they think that only "real terrorists" are going to get arrested. Nobody would think that they were really a terrorist. They do these goofy things thinking that it will get a good laugh, but, lo and behold, they are mistaken for a terrorist and arrested. Maybe some people will start to see how out-of-hand things have become.

But, what I am afraid of is that too many are too deeply asleep. It will take a huge event for it to really sink in. They see themselves as the good patriots who are one with the country so they are safe and secure. All it will take is a wrong move, or a mistaken interpretation for the reality of the "terror of the situation" to sink in. osit.

 

[pstott]

Once the "comfortable life" collapses with the financial system next year we will have many people being forced to wake up.

BTW, fascism is rampant in other places too - imagine arresting a teacher because a class chose Muhammad for the name of a teddy bear! Ridiculous.