No Terrorist Threat Here, Either

It can't be terrorism, it's for the ecology.

It's mindsets like this that scare me. In an ignorant cretin, a view like this is not a real threat, but guys with Ph.D.'s generally know how to make things happen. I've seen guys build optical spectometers in their garage over one weekend with stuff thy bough at a pawn shop (well, everything but the birefringent lens).

Maybe engineering and physics Ph.D.'s are different than theatre major's. Lets just hope his Ph.D. is in French Literature or something equally useless since I suspect the officials will apply a similar effort to restraining his activities as they do to ensure the integrity of the US/Mexican Border.