A circuit board and battery is not a "Fake Bomb"

Why is the mainstream media automatically labeling this poor girl as having a "fake bomb strapped to her chest?" She had a T-shirt on with a circuit board and a few LED lights as decoration. Way to label her as a terrorist right off the bat and ruin her life.

Here's the most fair article I've seen about this.

So again in Boston, the authorities are causing disturbances over a few blinking lights. This was hardly a hoax. This is simply a T-shirt with goofy stuff on it. Why are authorities and media so stupid to automatically equate "circuit board" with "bomb?" I'm sitting in an average room right now that probably has about nine items that use circuit boards. Seven of those have LED lights. None of them are bombs.

Check her out, sure. Maybe even stop her at gunpoint to investigate a threat. But when it's obvious that she meant no harm or hoax, why charge her? Why terrorize her, the airport, and the nation?

"This is a serious offense. We take it very seriously," state police major Scott Pare said.  What offense? She is being charged with disorderly conduct and having a hoax device. Where is the disorderly conduct? She went to the airport with an artistic T-shirt on and asked a question.

If reports are true, she never claimed it was a bomb. She wasn't trying to get attention or make a statement or create performance art. She only wanted to get some technology-related attention on career day, so she wore a tech-related t-shirt. This wasn't related to the airport. She didn't try to sneak anything through security screening. There was no threatening notice on the shirt - in fact the openly-displayed shirt self-identified as being school oriented. The only reason she is being charged is because an airport employee was ignorant enough to assume anything that blinks is a bomb like you might see in a "Lethal Weapon" movie.

This is part of government's continued "assault on reason" as Al Gore might say.

We've passed oppression down so that it not only comes from from the president denigrating whole classes of people to win votes (not to mention torture and secret imprisonment), but also the justice department rigging the vote, political advance men denying the right to assemble, security guards roaming privately owned city streets forbidding first amendment rights (see: photography in Silver Spring), health care tied to corporate servitude, and the U.S. Senate voting to condemn free speech.

Now that freedom depends on the intelligence of an airport employee or the patience of a few taser-happy university rent-a-cops at a political discussion, we're fucked.