[Nadya]

I'm not sure how you read my post and got that message out of it without purposefully being dishonest.

>Civil liberties should not hinge on looking just like everyone else, following the herd, never daring to be creative, etc.

You even explicitly went out of your way to ignore what I said.

>Now before anyone tries to wage some sort of moral war against me for stating how things are. I don't pass any judgement on if this is "good" or "bad" behavior.

Take your moral war elsewhere, because I'm not interested in this discussion. I'm stating how things are. Not how they "should" be. Not how you want them to be. Not how I want them to be. How they currently are. "What they are" and "what they should be" are not the same thing. Am I being patronizing enough to make my point crystal clear?

>never daring to be creative

This is a strawman. Dare to be creative at hackathons and art conventions - not an airport. Ever heard the phrase "time and place"?

[DougMerritt]

> Dare to be creative at hackathons and art conventions - not an airport. Ever heard the phrase "time and place"?

Remove tattoos and piercings at the airport, really?

> stating how things are

Like hell. Your view of things 100% implies that Star was in fact culpable for her own arrest, which isn't true, so I don't believe your disclaimers that you are just neutrally commenting.

> without purposefully being dishonest...

> ...Am I being patronizing enough to make my point crystal clear?

That you're being an ass? Sure.

[Nadya]

>Remove tattoos and piercings at the airport, really?

Why are you so stuck on one of several examples? Open carrying is legal in many states. Go for a workout outside a police station while open carrying, let me know how that works out. Just do some jumping jacks across the street. Nothing illegal but it will certainly draw some unwanted attention from the police!

>Like hell.

It's what happened and why it happened. She wore something outside of the ordinary, grabbed unwanted attention, and was arrested. Which part of that is a false statement?

[DougMerritt]

> She wore something outside of the ordinary, grabbed unwanted attention, and was arrested. Which part of that is a false statement?

If that's all you had said, then sure, that's just the facts.

My interpretation of your tone was that you were unsympathetic to Star, while I felt and feel great sympathy to her, and outrage towards the people who mistreated her.

Somehow a lot of idiots in the world have gotten the idea that digital electronics resemble a bomb, which is deeply retarded considering that it only resembles a timer, with no sign of an explosive.

I fault the idiots, not Star, and I am surely going to be upset with anyone who seems unsympathetic to what happened to her.