What a nice way to help the terrorists, making felons out of teenagers who happened to pull a pretty good prank on the last day of school. At Hendrick Hudson High School, which is in New York's Westchester County, 19 students were busted for placing alarm clocks all over the school, the clocks were synchronized to ring at 9:30am, disrupting class. The grown-ups called the bomb squad, and now some of our best and brightest will have to go through their entire lives as felons. Nice. Did we not learn our lesson from the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" bomb scare in Boston? (Of course we agree the guy who did that was an adult who really should have known better, but as the long time mayor of "jerk-land" figured it just wouldn't matter.) There is no justification for letting the world know that we no longer have a sense of humor. We are Americans, and shame on us for allowing the world to believe that we are easily frightened, that fear itself is an exploitable weakness that we worry more about liability than we do the big picture.
The world is not a different place since 9/11, it just seems that way. Mostly because we have seen fit to forfeit rational judgement, to put sour-pusses in charge. There's a time to be a hard-ass and a time to giggle behind your official papers.
This was a creative way to bid farewell to their school. Nobody was in danger, no damage was done. They used a key that had been missing for a year. Is it the students fault that the adults, who didn't bother to change the locks, are so paranoid now? Of course not. These are not the people who attacked us. Ban them from graduation, make the little snots work off the bill, but to hobble their futures is to hobble the future of America. Who wants that?
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