I don't really think Levi Frunk was wrong to take the
device to school. But then, he had the wrong skin
color.

I don't understand why this kid was suspended at all. This appears to be an overreaction based on what this article states.

The interesting thing to me is I have carried devices like that on many domestic and international flights without being questioned. Once I had about 12 electronic devices that looked like this in my carry-on going through security in Copenhagen. My son forgot to empty his water bottle. They had to wipe down his bag and bottle for explosives. My electronic devices, which included about 100W-hours worth of Li-Ion batteries, sailed right through.

It's unfortunate the article has to shoehorn racism into this, which has nothing to do with it.

It just shows what kind of world Obama is trying to build. What's more important than what happened response wise is what's happening on the intent side. The Muslims (at lease these Muslims) appear to be intent on creating situations to exercise their 'rights' by doing things that create opportunities to sue someone and get something for nothing, and to bring to attention of the public that we need more 'rules'. It's just another little ploy to bring down America.

Today everyone seems to be afraid of anything that has wires on it. Have we gone crazy? The Muslim so called bomb didn't even look like it could contain any explosive unless it might have been spread on the device somewhere with a butter knife. And why did the white kid build a device to charge a phone, you can buy one for a few bucks? Who knows?

It's all just part of Obama's intent to bring down and destroy the original concept of this country. He just wants to turn us into some kind of obeying civilization under control of people like him. Of course no one will admit any of that, they are too afraid of being called a racist. A lot of people didn't call out the gestapo either when they were becoming powerful in Germany.

Today, most of the time our president opens his mouth only perpetuates these atrocities that are become our routine way of life in this country. We've got to teach Americans that voting smart is more important than voting out of pure emotion and ignorance. Unfortunately there is no test, but that too would take away our freedom to be stupid.

very fine illustration of the double standard! -- j
.

can you imagine what would happen to a person who makes a static electric motor?

[shakes head at the stupidity]

It's things like this that confirm to me that our country is this close || to complete idiocy.

It's pretty obvious that Levi's "charger" was a prank.It accomplished what I think he set out to do, which was to illustrate the differences between how people are treated for similar actions. Reminds me of the time two pranksters bought a park bench identical to those in Central Park in New York. They brought the bench to the park, sat on it and waited until a policeman came by and picked it up and took it with them. The cop chased and arrested them for attempting to steal a park bench but when they showed the bill of sale to the judge after protesting that the bench was theirs, the judge had no choice but to dismiss the charges. Levi didn't get off so easily.

Society in general would be so much better off it folks cranked down the gain on their antennae and
grew a thicker dermal layer.

Never assume malice by that which could just as easily be explained by stupidity.

Yea, I wonder exactly What one could bring to school that "wouldn't" look like a bomb?
Or anywhere else these days...be a whole lot of "seein somthin" goin on.