The problem with this is that we are tolerating a response that could be provided by chimpanzees, instead of requiring a smidgen of intelligence to be exercised by personnel. It's basically amounting to "ook! new thing scare me! ook ook! person with new thing bad! ME SMASH FIRST!".

This will eventually result in a society only capable of reacting to things on the level of chimpanzees.

RE: MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with art project