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14 Year Old Texan, Ahmed Mohammed, Arrested For Home-Made Clock Because "It Looks Like A Bomb"
A perfect storm of Islamophobia and technophobia (as Wired.com's Marcus Wohlsen so eloquently put it) has erupted in Texas where high-school freshman Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday after bringing a homemade digital clock to MacArthur High. A teacher at the Irving school exclaimed "it looks like a bomb," resulting in a call to police. By mid-afternoon, police were leading the boy out of school in handcuffs and taking him to juvenile detention on suspicion of making a "hoax bomb." As Mike Krieger sums up so perfectly, America is a deeply fallen nation.
In his own words...
As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger details,
Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.
The family of Ahmed Mohamed said the boy was suspended for three days from MacArthur High School in the Dallas suburb of Irving after taking the clock to class on Monday.
The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported.
– From the ABC News article: Muslim Boy, 14, Detained for Making Clock Mistaken for Bomb
America is a deeply fallen nation. I don’t know how obvious it has to become before people come to grips and start to do something about it.
We haven’t decayed into this tepid abyss of immorality and decadence because of illegal immigrants, no matter what a two-bit demagogue preaching to desperate hordes infected with what Huxley referred to as herd-poisoning tells you. It’s entirely own our fault. We’ve allowed criminals and professional crony capitalists take to total control of the reins of power, and rather than fight against them, we aspire to become them. We have allowed them to scare us into submission by exploiting the tragic events of 9/11 to consolidate the world’s wealth into an increasingly small number of hands. Immigrants didn’t do this. We did, or at the very least, we allowed it to happen.
I harbor nostalgia for the days when Americans were merely ridiculed as being obese, McDonalds eating slobs ignorant of world affairs. We aren’t viewed with this combination of amusement and endearment any longer. Rather, the world now shudders with a mixture of disgust and horror in contemplation of what we have become. A decadent, clownish, wealth obsessed, corrupt, aggressive, war-mongering multitude of brainwashed imperial subjects. Worse yet, it’s not just ignorance anymore. There appears to be a idolization of anti-intellectualism running rampant, something on full display as of late with the ascendence of Donald Trump as a uniquely American strongman-savior. Not only is this stupid, it’s pathetic and dangerous.
America used to celebrate its eccentrics. The strange, creative, iconoclasts who, when allowed to, will generally change society for the better. In modern America, we put them in handcuffs. To illustrate this point, here’s an excerpt from my 2013 post, Remembering Internet Prodigy and Activist Aaron Swartz (1986-2013): Your Life is an Inspiration:
Despite this horrible tragedy, based on the outpouring of disgust even from the mainstream media, I am optimistic that Aaron’s death might actually represent a turning point. An event that can shake people out of their normalcy bias and force them to accept the sad reality they have been loath to admit. That our criminal “justice” system has been completely and totally co-opted by a ruthless, greedy and immoral oligarch class that seems hell bent on throwing the American public into a neo-feudal nightmare of debt slavery and ignorance.
Aaron was a treasure and a gift to the species and only a very sick and dying culture would have led to his premature end. We must look at ourselves in the mirror, accept this reality and change it immediately.
Unfortunately, not much has changed in these two and a half years. Our populace remains as fearful, paranoid and slavish as ever. More destitute, more desperate and more confused than ever before. Feverishly searching for a weak group to blame, and self-satisfied with their slobbering support for a casino billionaire who has provided an easy target. This is the culture that attacked and killed Aaron Swartz, and it is the culture that led to the arrest of a brilliant 14-year-old boy for building a homemade clock.
From ABC News:
Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.
The family of Ahmed Mohamed said the boy was suspended for three days from MacArthur High School in the Dallas suburb of Irving after taking the clock to class on Monday.
The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The school district said in a statement that Ahmed was detained by police. Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News that police are determining whether to file a charge of making a hoax bomb.
This is so typical of the U.S. power structure. Rather than admitting fault for traumatizing a little boy for being particularly smart, they regroup in order to charge him with an invented crime.
So what’s the lesson here learned by Ahmed? That inventiveness and eccentricity are not only unappreciated in America, but that exhibiting such traits is dangerous. In contrast, when members of the so-called “elite” commit systemic theft and embark upon countless unnecessary and devastating wars abroad, they are rewarded with unimaginable wealth. This is the incentive structure in modern America, and is precisely why the country has morphed into little more than a neo-feudal imperial Banana Republic.
For a little more, here’s some coverage from the New York Times:
A high school student in Texas whose hobby was inventing thought he had a unique idea for a project: to build his own clock.
But the effort landed him in handcuffs and juvenile detention, accused of making a hoax bomb.
When Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., on Monday, an engineering teacher suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers. But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News.
In a video posted on the newspaper’s website, Ahmed described how he was taken from school by the police. “They took me to a room filled with five officers,” he said. “They interrogated me, and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention.”
He said he was fingerprinted, and mug shots were taken at a juvenile detention center. He was released when his parents came to retrieve him.
“It made me feel like a criminal,” he said. He was suspended for three days.
“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
Read this line again and again and again until you get it. “The concern was, what was this thing built for?”
Perhaps it was built out of curiosity and passion, or perhaps it was just the spontaneous product of a creative and brilliant mind. So what? Why does it have to be built for a specific purpose? Instead of celebrating such a bright young boy, we criminalize him. It’s a symptom of a very sick and twisted society.
In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
He was wrong. It actually, it looks like this.

Ahmed’s arrest occurred in Texas. A state so proud of it’s small government stance, yet bizarrely ground zero for a multitude of statist practices.
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So he doesn't make a bomb, but a functioning clock. The school admits it was a clock. And they still suspend him for three days? I'd give the kid an A in whatever his freshman science class is.
I got suspended in 7th grade for an entire year. My offense? A swiss army knife complete with magnifying glass, tweezers, and toothpick.
This kid can rot in hell.
You were probably given the knife, likely by a parent (who may have purchased it at the store where I worked - we sold them); and I know you were damned proud of that knife! They were super cool. Suspending you for a year for having it was a travesty (unless you had been caught with a weapon at school earlier).
That does not make what happened to young Achmed right. He was rightly proud of his accomplishment in figuring out how to build that clock. What was done to him, and what was done to you, was wrong. Period. You, of all people, should understand that.
Craig
When I was in public high school for a year in 1980, I once wore a 4 inch buck knife on my belt. No one cared. No one got hurt. No big deal.
Later in a private boarding school, I brought a machete that I bought that in Mexico and kept it in my dorm room because I thought it was cool. Again, no one cared. Back then, the school had an indoor 22 rifle range and a trap and skeet range a few miles away. You could bring your shotgun or rifle to school though you had to leave them with the gun master.
I went back to the school a couple years ago and the kids looked at me like I was crazy when I asked where the rifle range was. They closed down the smoking club and clubhouse as well. Now if you are caught smoking (legal stuff), they send you to counseling.
We have become so PC it is ridiculous.
When I was in HS - the parking lot always had at least 2 or 3 pickups owned by older students with rifle racks in the back (complete with rifles/shotguns). Nobody ever made a big deal about it.
Was I the only guy who's high school had a smoking area for students?
Nope. I went to a Jesuit Prep School and we had a smoking lounge too.
In honor of Tall Tom, one of my favorite posters: Go Vaqueros!
El C(r)apitan in the house baby!
You sound like a terrorist. Sure you're not leaving out part of the story?
In the center of Nuremberg there's a clock tower that's been around for 350 years. The clockwork animation that plays is hilarious, it's various townsfolk chasing the devil.
Clocks are evil. No Child Left Behind says so!
I mean, well, you know. Whatever. Nevermind.
America doesn't know what it is anymore thanks to Zion.
Zionism is satanism.
Stop using children to promote your hatred.
Two thoughts come to mind; first, the young man should be given a heart-felt appology by the school, the police and especially the teacher involved.
Second, what do you think might have caused this reaction?
Being dark skinned, maybe. Being a Muslim, again perhaps. Being a dark skineed Muslim in Texas, though -
Just saying
Craig
If it were a blonde girl, the outcome would be entirely different.
Yeah. She'd have been strip-searched.
If he wasn't a terrorist to begin with, we will make him become a terrorist.
-Texas Authorities
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave eh? Not bloody likely. In the 50's, 60's, 70's and part of the 80's you had kids actually making bombs and blowing shit up for fun. I proudly count myself among them. But this energetic kid simply made a clock and you put him in handcuffs? What a fucked up country Amerika has become. How STUPID are the cops and school officials. No common sense. They can't fucking recognize a clock when they see one.
Last Christmas, I bought my 5 yr. old grandson "The American Boy's Handy Book."
http://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Handy-Book-Centennial/dp/0879234490/...
Much hilarity ensued.
He was arrested because he has a functioning brain and therefore is a threat to the powers that be.
Just think, people thought Vonnegut was writing fiction!
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Same punishment as if you walked into school with a copy of the Bill of Rights.
His fault was to build something by himself and not to buy it from the Apple store.
So much for nurturing the next generation of American inventers and entrepreneurs.
Why even attempt to learn how machines work if one is to be penalized and or marginalized for it?
Why teach about the maint. of automobilies? Isn't that how people learn to bypass catalytic conveters and cut break lines?
Isn't teaching computer programming dangerous? Isn't that how hackers are created?
On and on...
Idiocy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
"Jobs's biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (b. 1931), was born into a Muslim household and grew up in Homs, Syria.
. . .
While an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, he was a student activist and spent time in jail for his political activities.
. . .
Schieble became pregnant in 1954 when she and Jandali spent the summer with his family in Homs, Syria. Jandali has stated that he "was very much in love with Joanne ... but sadly, her father was a tyrant, and forbade her to marry me, as I was from Syria. And so she told me she wanted to give the baby up for adoption."
The widely revered Steve Jobs was the Bastard Son of a Muslim and Political Agitator.
Steve Jobs wasn't the genius inventor. Steve Wozniak was. Jobs was just the sales and marketing guy - who, it should be noted, ended up screwing over the actual genius inventor in a big way.
Meanwhile, Wozniak was NOT the bastard child of any Mohammadean or Alinskyite.
That is all indeed true. I dispute nothing you say.
I'm just pointing out that the days of people being inventive and/or entrepreneureal in their basement or garage are probably over. The same fear mongering and over reaction will probably be manifest in the fields such as coding and other intellectual and/or artistic pursuits if it isn't already under way.
I expect that the US is going to shortly become intolerant of not only inventing but arduino, bread boards, prototyping and circuit bending, etc. One of the last people I collaborated with moved away to Eastern Europe where creativity is not entirely sanctioned and ridiculed and marginalized.
Neither a clock or a bomb: http://www.ebay.com/itm/151815571972?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p...
Is it NOT a weapon of some kind: http://www.ebay.com/itm/151815571980?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p...
I would not recommend taking either object to the middle school talent contest.
REAL high class Protoype musical instruments is what they are.
What they look like is kinda whatever you think they look like.
NOT looking -or sounding- exactly like everything else is the whole idea...
FUN. From friends who tinkered for laughs and relaxation.
no, but he was "Berkeley Blue" of phone phreak fame, who invented and sold equipment specifically designed for committing toll fraud on phone networks...
but look at him now...
A deer in my yard, I call the wife and kids to have a look. A bear in my yard, I call animal control. This case was probably an over-reaction, but the word "Islamophobia" was created by the Islamic Brotherhood and propogated by the leftist media to mentally disarm Westerners who have every reason to hold Islam and its practitioners in suspicion for the acts of their fellow practitioners. Why are 9 out of 10 "violent extremists" muslim (the majority of the remainder leftists) rather than say Lutherans? If 9 out of ten were Lutherans, I'd be suspicious of them instead.
Animal Control for a bear? He's just passing through...keep your kids inside for a bit, and he'll be gone. Really, they don't want to run into you anymore than you want to run into them.
We have plenty of black bears here. They aren't like Grizzly's, which CAN be very aggressive. As long as they aren't nursing cubs, they are more likely to beat it when they know humans are around.
Or get a 20 year old arthritic housecat. Our Boo-
Boo Kitty once chased a huge black bear off our property, and that bear was running! With the scraggly skinny old cat right on his heels!
I think he was more surprised at the sudden aggression from this tiny angry creature that made him run, because he could have, with one swipe, sent her straight to Kitty-Heaven.
But that cat STRUTTED around the house after that day..."Yeah, that's right bitch! You BETTER run!"
Yup. Just let the critters be. Life is tough enough for them these days already without being caged and shot by Animal Control for nothing.
Christ - my neighbor's whole family freaked f'n out the other night becasue there was a possum playing dead near their car. You woulda thunk they were being stalked by a rabid wolverine they way they were carrying on. I picked it up by the tail, dropped it in a cloth sack and put it in my back yard. 5 minutes later the little guy was on his way (possums eat slugs, so we encourage them around our garden).
In light of the more recent information related to this case, I just wanted to stop by and say "fuck you - I'm vindicated" to those who voted me down in defense of this punk, except those who voted me down taking the side of wildlife/bears. You are right, and I will not call animal control
I didn't see the teacher's name mentioned. Why not? He is the guilty party.
Exactly. Why no picture of the teacher? Why don't they mention the name? Put the morons in the spotlight and let them defend their actions, if they can.
But we have a right to know who it is. This is a public school teacher, paid for with citizen tax dollars. They should not be permitted to remain anonymous.
If anyone finds out the name, or gets a pic, please post it online, for all to see.
All roaches run when the lights come on.
What a fucking disgrace - what a bunch of fucking cowards - the teacher, the cops, the 'justice system'. Yeah, Texas, last fucking beacon of individual freedoms and American values in the otherwise fascist union - bullshit, just another bunch of statist cowards.
All I can say is it's lucky for him it didn't look like a gun. He'd be dead now.
Kids need to be very careful of what shape they may accidently form when eating a Pop-Tart, slice of pizza, sandwhich, etc.
And if this makes them feel constantly watched (they are) and anxious - they can go to the nurse and get drugs for that.
' Land of the free, home of the brave ' ?
Are you kidding ?
Show a Pic of the clock...C'mon Media...SHOW IT...then let intelligent people decide if it was fashioned to look like abomb, or simply a science-project clock with batteries.
BULLSHIT REPORTING AT ITS BEST - Pic of the Boy, and nothing of the "Clock"
As for Mooooslims - They have themselves to blame for the hysteria....and Americans have themselves to blame that a teacher MAY not be able to distinguish a home-made clock from a "Bomb"
FAIL on Both sides.
14 year old kid and an science project for fucks sake - so you feel like if it DID 'look like a bomb' the teacher's response was appropriate, as opposed to, say, talking to the kid? This country is fucked.
Everybody, time to stop talking about what needs to be done to prevent a police state, and start talking about how best to cope with living in a fucking police state.
What is wrong with a clock being made specifically to look 'like a bomb'?
Probably the only reason to have a traditional clock these days is for kitch value.
Darting cat eyes and swishing pendulum tail type gear, etc..
A nice round black ball with a little fuse with a sparkling led on the end of it that 'goes off' when it's programmed and wakes you up with hokey old cartoon explosion noises, or bulky bundle with a stupid tangle of blue and red wires and a big digital display that wakes you with an bland emotionless voice countdown both sound pretty rad to me....
'Bomb clocks' are probably some of the few clocks I'd give a shit about owning.
LIKE THIS:
http://www.amazon.com/Novelty-Defusable-Alarm-Clock-Bomb-like/dp/B00C587QUM
& FOR NEXT TO THE GROOVY BOMB CLOCK ON THE NIGHTSTAND:
http://www.amazon.com/Atlanco-5812000-Tru-Spec-Dummy-Grenade-Pineapple/d...
Every day there seems to be a new reason to ask: WTF is wrong with people these days???
Absolutely Nothing wrong with it.
Its the purpose of the things that counts.
"time to stop talking about what needs to be done to prevent a police state, and start talking about how best to cope with living in a fucking police state. "
NO.
IT IS TIME TO START DISMANTLING THE POLICE STATE.
Yes, he - like the 'teachers' - probably never built an electronics project in their life. But they can judge what 'looks like a bomb' because they have wasted thousands of hours watching t.v. 'action shows' so are fully qualified.
Of course, Americans don't manufacture or repair much nowadays so how would they know a damned thing about electronics or any practical subject?
Prove it for Fucks Sake...doesnt look NOTHING like a clock. mangles mess of fucking wires.
I used to make Science projects and I was PISS FUCKGIN POOR as a kid, and none of them looked nuttin like that.
I like how the story doesnt mention how long the kid went to that school, parents , etc etc...
Dry-Run by Media, or maybe daddy told the kid to take that thing to school cuz daddy is a crazy MOOOOSlim and wanted to see security protocol...I mean, those guys would NEVER EVER use kids would they?
Wise up. Ask real questions.
If it was a school project, then the kid made a really lousy looking one and gets a D for not doing a good job. Did the clock even properly keep time...if not, he gets a D-.
Here's a real question:
Were you dropped when you were a baby or is your problem with thinking crystal meth?
Because of this STUPID fucking Media report, some kid with Crazy ISIS parents will now geta Real bomb into a school.
Teacher see's a bomb...Teacher is now supposed to SAY NOTHING. Just because it LOOKS like a gun, doesnt mean its a gun - Mouths closed.
Great...We are now fucked both ways to hell.
Then again...why in the hell would a teacher even be thinking it "looks" like a bomb? Why? Oh...maybe cuz the friggin muslims actually use bombs.
We use jets, dropping bombs, they make IED's and hand-held bombs....any correlation here? Nope - MOve along.
You fucking pussy.
The expression on his face says it all. Funny thing is he can probably code like no ones business.
"because it looks like a bomb" Looks like a bomb to anyone? Is that a crime?
I think his teacher ought to be sent back to repeat special ed because he "looks like a moron."
The teacher 'looks like a child rapist to me' is the one valid response to this bullshit.
Really: the parents should sue with extreme predjudice.
I am SO glad I don't have kids in school anymore. If that was my kid I'd be the one in handcuffs after kicking in the principal's office door and screaming "What are you, some kind of fucking IDIOT?"
10 years ago, when mine were in school, I came close a couple of times. The school realized I wasn't playing, and backed off on some "disciplinary actions' they were thinking of taking against my kids.
It's 10 years later, and these days I think I might actually escalate to physical assault. I'm small, but can really fuck you up if I put my mind to it. The fact that rage makes me insensible to pain helps, and since I'd be going to jail anyway, I'd be damned sure I got my money's worth out of your sorry hide.
freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
How come I always here how great for Liberty the state of Texas is. Yet 75% of the asshole cop videos I see on YouTube cone from that same shithole state. Fuck the Texas police. And Fuck George Bush too.
Yeah, no shit, I was wondering the same thing.
This school is just 7 miles from my house. And that traitor Bush lives just 12 miles away. Texas has a lot of Liberty loving people -but we are a minority. The State is filled with Zio-Christian warmongers. John Hagee lives here. Rick Perry is a Fraud -as is the Zio-warmongerer Ted Cruz. Now I love Texas, but there are far too many people with their heads up their asses-Republicans and Democrats alike. I was a Republican activist for 25 years -supported the good candidates and we have a handful of elected officials who are pretty good. This incident with this kid is just another example of the paranoid warmongering sheeple who have drunk the coolaid and lost their minds, their hearts, their conscience and their humanity. If you want to end the refugee and "terorist" crisis, stop invading and bombing other countries, stop funding and training AlQuada, Al Nusra and ISIS. Get rid of our controlled media, jail everyone on Wall Street and bring back the Bill of Rights by repealling the patriot Act and also jailing treasonous poiticians.
^^ What savy said.
Last time I visited Austin it was all hipsters in Crocs, skinny jeans, and porkpie hats. Lo how the mighty have fallen.
The People's Republic of Travis County has fuck all to do with Irving, as the people in Irving will loudly proclaim to anyone who can hear...
but the Carne Guisada tacos though
I have 3 adult sons in Austin. Yes there are a lot of hipsters, but politically it's got a real large group of poilitically enlightened people. Ron Paul ran very strong there.
"I don’t know how obvious it has to become before people come to grips and start to do something about it."
But they won't, the country is fractured because of differing cultures, illegal immigration, refugees, and multiple languages.
How do you get a unified response from a collection of vastly different cultures?
I remember the advice of my first stock broker 20 years ago telling me to never to allow yourself to stand out in any way and keep your inventiveness to yourself for your own profit as the assholes are watching. Guess what, he was right. I didn't take his advise and ended up charging my menagement line with harrassment to protect myself. Won the case and got to retire at 45 years of age. Have to love the incompetence that made this possible.
My inventiveness has led me to create a simple model for entering and exiting stock trades that has allowed me to make 25 out of 26 winning trades in just the last 2 months. I kid you not. A virtual money printing machine. Think I am going to let this out? FU to the assholes. lol
Um, I have had plenty of contact with employees of the Irving school system before in the course of my career. Which is why I can declare unequivocally that this has to be a misquote:
"It looks like a bomb."
What the teacher really said was:
"It look like bomb."
And what's the member of Irving's finest, standing at the ready in the background, thinking? It would sort of be along the lines of this:
"Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."
Except that it would have a slight buzzing sound to it.
Good way to turn a smart Muslim into a muslim terrorist. Hopefully on the side of Liberty.
Did this writer say the same thing when a 6 yr old was suspended for eating a pop tart into a gun shape?
Or is overreaction less alarming if the kid is white?
You'd think people would be clued in that this was a manufactured-for-media event when Hillary and Obama both personally chimed in within 24 hours.
That response speed means nothing. These folks have people who watch media all day long for anything that they can leverage into influence.
Ummm... Google is you frend. http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/02/24/the-police-states-of-america-eld...
..that's one Dumbass Dimwitted kid.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
ANY parent that doesn't teach their kids that America is teetering on the brink of being a Warzone in Airports and Schools is a Dumbass Dimwit.
Poor kid, I'll bet he has no idea that building timing devices was his ancestral village's main occupation back in the day.
But shame on the school for being dicks. The trouble with Texas, is that it's full of Texans.
ZH is the best financial doom porn site there is but when did it become such a bastion of bleeding heart moonbat LibTard islamo felching assholes?
I dunno. And here's another poser: When did the Confederacy go gay?
Some of the most gifted and famous officiers of the Confederacy were Rear Guard Generals
Who could be relied on to never leave their brother's behind.
State of The Nation. When they take away our egg-timers, they cripple the hen business.
You Will be Very Afraid of Everything.
You will Not ask questions, Ever.
You will Not think, Ever.
The Greatest Threat is Out There, not right here - - between your ears.
They asked how people could be so foolish as to follow a Hitler or Stalin ? How could people serve as the physical bodies to carry out those horrible acts that the demagouges could have never done by themselves ?
This is how.
Yeah not going to lie.. kinda looks like a bomb lol
Cunting Cuntsville Cunts and the Cunts who Cunted them into this Cunting World. Fuck this shit, seriously.
Any School Resource Officer should be tarred and feathered. Any sensible parent with kids in the System should take them elsewhere.
Your odds of being the victim of a mass attack are much less than being struck by lightning. Yet the US wastes massive amounts on such 'resource officers'.
Fear mongering is the M.O. of the parasites running the government con.
Lock him up. In 10 years, this little prick Will rape a 12 year old.
Lock him up. In 10 years, this little prick Will rape a 12 year old.
Remids me of the 2007 Boston Bomb scare, remember 01-31-2007!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEZJqVjoDg
The short version, a couple of guys, as part of a marketing campaign, setup up what was baiscally a Light Brite set that showed a cartoon character with its middle finger extended. The 'device' was in place for several days until someone called it in as a 'bomb device', and then the fun started. (I suspect it was some old lady who was off her meds and didn't know what the hell is going on in reality.)
I happened to be at home that day, and got a phone call later that afternoon from someone I knew, that was at the copy shop at Center Plaza in Boston, which is next door to the court house. When people first saw it on the news there in the shop, he said that 'people started to freak out' . Even after the two guys, who had made the 'device' and set it up, called the police and explained what it was, and that it was not a bomb, the city officials insisted they had a bomb. The city even issued a press release stating they had 'detonated a device' at Deer Island (island near Boston, connected by causways that has a water treatment plant) and such device was a bomb.
We found it incredible that even the Boston Bomb squad could not tell that a circuit board with batteries was NOT a bomb, especially with the cartoon character for lights.
My friend said that as soon as they said the device had been 'planted in Sommerville' that even he knew it coulnd't/wouldn't be a bomb, since there was nothing of value or importance to bomb in Sommerville.
What I found alarming is that the no one seemed to be able to tell the differnece from a Light Brite set and a bomb.
There were Lite Brites placed everywhere. Only the East Coast, USA acted like someone was ruffling their panties.
This is because "you never let a good crisis go to waste". Much like the Lite Bright incident, it's another opportunity for TPTB to continue their endless fear mongering.
So howcome nobody objects to Banksy? Some of his stuff is literally explosive.
Here's a clue, folks... anyone named after history's most notorious child-raping serial mass murdering pirate madman, or who holds said madman as the epitome of how a person should behave, is not your friend!
Just ask the Kurds whose "nice Muslim neighbors" they'd known for a dozen years didn't hesitate to point out which homes were not occupied by other Mohammadeans when ISIS rolled into town.
The only peace the religion of Islam knows is the waiting period while they gather the strength to destroy you outright. Whoever you are, whoever you may be, whoever your other friends and enemies may be, Islam will always be your perpetual enemy unless you submit to their absolute domination.
Well, let's see now. Estimates of the number of Iraqis killed by the continuing war, run from 1 million - 2 million.
And who is supposed to be the 'terry-ists' ?
(Yes, I attended US 'schools', - but thankfully, it didnt all stick.)
What's worse - the accusation, or the government lackey's who carry out the humiliation without calling a stop to it, knowing the whole thing is a farce...? Just following orders perhaps? Gotta put food on the table and retire, right...?
Got to justify your job. If there are no terrorists, who needs you?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair
Any digital clock could be wired for a fuse for a bomb. In airports all unattended backpacks and bags are treated like they could be potentially a bomb. In this case the teacher and the cops obviously overreacted to the situation. They are suspicious of Muslims, why is that? Is there any valid reason to be suspicious of Muslims?
No Valid reason, however being racist is one reason
News flash: calling people racists stopped being an effective argument years ago
It's not a matter of him being Muslim. It's a matter of most people involved in the Public School system are bottom of the barrel intellectually and that school systems in order to shield themselves from lawsuits turn all matters over to law enforcement. 20 years ago I would have had to have shanked someone in the lunch room to have the police called. Now two kids get into a shoving match on the playground and they end up having to make bail and go before a judge.
I remember when I was in high school in 1968. A classmate's father was in the construction business and had a large stash of dynamite, blasting caps, and fuse cord. The classmate brought a bunch of this stuff to school and during lunch we went onto the football field and lit off some blasting caps with short fuses, kind of like cherry bombs. But what to do with the dynamite? Well the campus had a path through the woods to shop class which was in what used to be the segregated black high school. On the way to shop class after lunch we stuffed 4 sticks of dynamite with blasting caps and a long fuse under an old tree along the path, lit it and when on to shop class. The fuse was long and after about 10 minutes in shop class someone started giggling and it was contageous and the whole shop class ended up rolling on the floor in uncontrollable laughter waiting for the bang. Finally after 5 minutes of rolling on the floor the dynamite went off and broke all of the windows in the gym. The shop teacher, who was later the county sheriff, of course knew we were guilty. The classmate who brought the dynamite pleaded guilty to the principle for bringing a cherry bomb to school and was suspended for 3 days. The tree did not fall over as we expected but did eventually die from it's injuries. Things have definitely changed.
Retroactive penalties...
Guantanamo for you, sir!
Ahhh... 1968, those were the days.
American students that point fingers like a gun at school are suspended, expelled, and have their parents run through the wringer. American students that take bites out of a piece of bread or a cookie to make it look like a gun - woe woe woe.
But let a supercitizen come to school with a prototype bomb and we all have to like it
Bites out of a piece of bread or cookie?
What the hell are these references to someone being suspended/arrested for making a piece of food look like a gun? Did this really happen somewhere or what?
Bites out of a piece of bread or cookie?
What that hell are these references to someone being suspended/arrested for making a piece of food look like a gun? Did this really happen somewhere or what?
So let the little Muslim boy wander the halls with something that looks like a bomb? Where have you been since 9/11, you idiot?
We do have terrorists in Dallas -George Bush is the most dangerous. You don't have a clue who was behind 911-do you?
Your comment exemplifies how common sense and logic has been replaced by knee-jerk reactions to unbridled emotions. People believe everything the hear and see on TV. Hell, most people just dream shit up and think it is true. Whoever thought the clock this kid built looked like a bomb is a mind-controlled lemming who needs to turn off the TV and take a course in elementary logic.
Eahudimac - the fools won't ask the simplest & most obvious questions. Would a real threat show his wares to the teachers ? Would a real threat put such a device in an enclosure that would draw attention from those who have watched way too much t.v. & spent way too much time in such 'schools' ?
This country is full of morons.
Did somebody bring a home-built clock to school on 9/11?
You gotto change that name
Cassius Clay changed his name. He did so for his beliefs, because he lived in a somewhat free country, notwithstanding Vietnam and the draft.
Perhaps You should change Your name?
Stupid educators should be heralding the fact that this little BLACK KID was doing something good, using his mind, building himself into a position where he could get a high paying job and being a role model for other BLACKS who spend their whole lives being groomed into professional victims.
Stop locking BLACKS into victim-hood!!!!
Oh and the school people should be fired for being dumber than wood.
Obviously the kid was self taught because his teachers are mentally retarded.
either this place is getting overrun with psyops or ZHers aren't as smart as I thought they were
I should note I got down arrowed like mad also when I pointed out the original "drowned boy" story was likely to be false. Anyone remember how that one turned out?
Pattern recognition, people - use it!
Downvoted - stop speaking the truth before this gets worse for you.
You''ve been warned...
I agree with you, Sanity Bear. The comments I am agreeing with on this thread are getting greatly down-arrowed.
Muslims are in the act of blowing up innocent people all over the globe as I am writing this. Not Christians. Not Buddhists. Not Hindus. MUSLIMS.
BTW, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is a very good book.
update:
obama invited him
Dry run, next one is real.
This country is fucked up. Years ago, lots worse with no problems until the ignorant retards came in charge. Kids are probably scaed to TP a house now.
Progressives own and run the schools in Texas. You can bet the school staff responsible for this outrage are card carrying obamatron assclowns.
The progressive stupid, it burns.
Grimaldus
Thank You Patriot Act. I knew he was a muuuslimm when I saw the NASA t-shirt. Part of Obama's NASA outreach I bet. Make him prove he's not a terrorist. Hint terrorist can't float
This is what I've learned watching people trying to "do something" for 40 years. The ones who are dumb enough to actually stick their necks out... they get arrested and sent away for 20 years, or they're fired, relentlessly smeared, disgraced, divorced, bankrupted and mercilessly tarred and feathered. The only "thing" that got done? They unravelled their own lives. They fought the law and... the law won.
America loves its rugged individualist go-it-alone heros only in the abstract. Or cartoons. The bitter reality is much different. If you want to effect real change, become a mob of a few million dispossessed bombed-to-shit Syrian refugees and rush European borders all at once. Strength in numbers. Boom! Demographic cataclysm guaranteed. It's baked into the cake.
The wheels are coming off the wagon. It's plain as day for anyone to see. Why bother with the lug wrench when this jalopy is heading over the cliff under its own power. Just be ready to jump.
Assuming they don't completely destroy the planet, maybe the next generation will learn a lesson -
No matter what, - keep things small.
Egomaniac psychopaths Will eventually get into power. The majority of the people - who want a 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' figure - will make it so.
If you keep things small - you limit the resources available for bringing tyranny & destruction.
The break up of the USSR was a great human victory. The imposition of a one world government New World Order would be a great human tragedy.
according to the
[clueless] school principal,
everything done was just standard operating procedure,
that no one should find objectionable because it was keeping the school "safe".
And furthermore in a letter to the boy's parents, "this is a good time to remind your child how important it is to immediately report any suspicious items and/or suspicious behavior."
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9337857/ahmed-mohamed-texas-school-dis...
In 1967, four of us were parked at the town's popular drive-in. One of our friends drove up next to us and said he'd just bought a nice hunting rifle. It was in the trunk of his car, and he wanted to show it to us. So there we are, five teenagers standing behind this car with the trunk open, and we start passing this hunting rifle around, looking at it. One of the dudes took it and aimed it (out into the street).
A cop drove by, and saw this dude holding this rifle up as you would if you were aiming at something. The cop turns around and wheels up next to us and says "Boy...what the fuck do you think you're doing?". The dude says "Nothin' officer. We are just looking at this brand new hunting rifle".
The cop says "Well, ya stupid little shitass! What's the matter with you? Don't be pointing a gun around in a public place like this. Now put that damn thing away and don't do that shit again, ...ya hear me... boy!?!".
...Then the cop drove away.
Black cop, black kids, Harlem?
The cop's last name was ANNUSHKA (Russian). Two White, one Hispanic, and two Black teenage kids in one car and the kid who owned the gun was some Jewish kid, as I recall.
The guy who had the gun in his hand at the time the cop drove up was one of the white kids, so I'll have to hand at least that much you (I'm sure you'll come back with another snide comment since I OBVIOUSLY gave you the opportunity).
And BTW... this happened in the state of Texas.
Where I lived, the cop (Sheriffs Deputy) woulda come over to admire that rifle - if it was a really nice one.
Texas is a joke. So many people on houstons news websites shitting bricks that this kid was muslim, saying that he wanted to make a bomb rah rah rah mofo America! and other shit. They should be more worried about the stupidity in charge of their schools and the Texas Board of Education...
It might be helpful to see the homemade clock before going postal on the cops.. it was in a case and looked like a bomb.. NOT a clock
cops did the right thing,,
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/09/16/clock-irving-texas_wide-83cea...
If he wanted to bring a bomb to school he would/could have disguised it as a cake or something as harmless.
He probably should have talked to his teacher/principal before bringing the clock though, it may have stopped the stupid.
If you cant make a clock that looks like a bomb, can you make a bomb that looks like a clock?......
That teacher just destroyed this childs life by criminalizing his interest in science.
He/She should suffer the same and EVERYONE that had a hand in his arrest.
Insane!
Over the top. I'm sure you mean well, but....
but what?
cuz he's a muzzy or not your child?
he was a kid for pete's sake.
i wouldn't put it past the teacher getting a kickback for filling up private juve detention centers.
kids for cash dontchano.
just another example of trying to get civil unrest via religious beliefs.
better safe than sorry
" better safe than sorry "
I'm sure they said the same thing before hauling some poor guy off to a Stalinist prison camp in Siberia.
" Ivan seemed like a decent guy . . . but better safe than sorry. "
JUST an arrest record will disqualify you from many .gov programs i.e. Global Entry. Everyone will need to be arrested at least once to ensure state security.
Cue the feigned outrage that this is a non-white so there must be some discrimination or hate and requires the Justice Dept to intervene and perform sensitivity training.
Next they'll be harrassing him about his Halloween costume...
http://www.ryot.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20.jpg
What's he wearing, bundled Kotexes?
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The left owns this. The filthy-leftist-liberal-progressive.
This sort of paranoia, grew out of the now rampant and ubiquitous idea of the helicopter parent, the fretting soccer mom, who drives her child to school 2 blocks away, who won’t let the kid out of her sight.
And this grew out of the politically correct, Ms. Manners, fretting, feminism of the 70’s, that allowed women to be viewed as competent mothers in their shrill paranoia looking after their children, finding meaning in their constant competition to be more paranoid than the other parent.
This behaviour was assimilated into the schools, by snivelling bureaucrats, gutless to stand up to them, into the society, by modern feminism and the lack of balls by men to say, “Enough is enough” as they were gradually bitch-slapped into submission, called rapists, and beaters, and haters, at every turn when they protested all the incremental behaviours that lead to the very situation we have today.
Much of this knee-jerk behaviour by moms was initiated through legal actions, as they also successfully sued the schools through many iterations to make these institutions into nightmares of politically correct, stranger-danger, paranoia, for the slightest issue, such as their little darlings falling off a slide.
Which they removed from school yards, decades ago, in case another child was injured, ‘playing’.
This is shameful behaviour that reveals a society that is literally going mad.
We used to use that term, ‘mad’ as in ‘madness’.
We call this the war on boys, but it is a madness that is consuming us that is truly gender-neutral.
We all not express our outrage, but like the weather, we never do anything about it, because it is just so ingrained into our society, that we’ve given up.
It’s not going to get better, either, until a complete expulsion of this political-social philosophy is made, and it’s doubtful that that will be done in a calm, rational manner.
Too bad for the kid.
A good start would be to fire every adult involved with this drama, who did anything but congratulate him on his ability.
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Hindsight being what it is, someday this kid is going to wish he resisted arrest and slugged as many of those dumb fuckers as he could get away with before beign subdued with a taser. Not to say that he would have done much damage to anyone, but still.
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
-George Orwell's 1984
Check the parent's bank account for a big deposit.
I watched thsi Kids video he posted. If this is the incredibly "Bright" kid who built this home-made clock to display 4 digits, he sure didnt spend much time making it nice & tidy. Most bright kids, who want to show off their skills, make sure and make whatever they are building look somewhat "cool", or even trick/techy...Id know, I used to build all sorts of stuff, INCLUDING Clocks, and LED Displays. My room was a mess, and much of my "inventions" were not beautiful, but they sure were not a mangled mess of wires, that quite honestly, looked NOTHING like a clock.
CLocks that run digital LED displays these days use small Integrated Circuits that need only a few connections, capacitors, resisters, diods etc...and a single 9-volt or few AAA or AA batteries.
Not only that, but I could hardly understand a work of "English" this kid spoke...and it wasnt "camera fright"...he just was mumbling about.
I want to see a pic of mommy and daddy, and know what daddy does for a living...how long they have resided in the US etc...MUSLIMS USE KIDS to test security and even EXPLODE Bombs...U.S> Aint perfect, and we have our share of blood in the ME, but fact is there is a track-record of certain groups of people doing certain things which makes them suspect in certain circumstances.
How long did the teacher know this kid...was he new to school...
C'mon ZH and the rest of the Media...TELL THE WHOLE STORY. And Please show a BETTER PIC of the "Clock".
Obaminator, I'm surprised you did not want to seize his parents house and assets, you are a racist, you would not be speaking like this if a white American boy was arrested.
I have no desire to do such...you and 99% of the others fail to ask the real questions.
a) The Teacher is either completely Stupid or
b) The Kid made a horrific looking science project and should have done a better job making it clean and nice (like we used to have to do in schoool to get a good grade or
c) His Parents are crazies and had him go to school with a device looking NOTHING LIKE A CLOCK to see how security would respond.
all 3 of the above Represent STUPIDITY in the US not just from one side of the Aisle...but ALL SIDES.
Dont put words into my mouth...read what I am saying, then think to yourself why this is even in the media and why did it even happen in the first place?
I am quite certain many families around the world with loved ones blown to pieces by real bombs would have a few things to say about the tendency for One certain religion in the world to use Kids and Bombs to blow other people up. Oh wait...is that too non-PC for everyone?
Obaminator, much less racism in your reply, seems you have put some thought into what you actually wanted to say.
I am beginning to think that you are a governemnt troll. You conclude: "should have done a better job making it clean and nice (like we used to have to do in schoool to get a good grade or"
are you kidding me? Us nerds never gave a sh** about grades or how we look. You are living in a make believe world (are you paid by a government to write this crap?)
Oh, another racist. Got it.
1. his wires etc are a lot neater than the disorder I always made when I built a circuit, I dont know what you are talking about. An ordered desk and ordered circuit/wires is a sign of a disordered mind.
2. the school admittedly already had an expert (engineering teacher) resource and as an organization ALREADY KNEW there was no problem. Maybe your argument should be upside down: the school harrassed him over a known innocent clock that their own expert already knew was innocent and safe BECAUSE they wanted to trouble his father.
3. any idiot who understands technology easily can see there is no chemical material here. There is no question that the stupid school had the agenda and not the child or his family. The school could have put him in detention for disturbing the English class by letting his clock beep then. Instead they wanted to make some issue.
4. Who cares anyway whether the kids father or uncle or cat is a person with political activities. Having a relationship with a political actor (activist lawyer) does not automatically strip a person of his freedom (to make and show off clocks for example) and it is incorrect to ascribe his acts as those of his father. get a life
Growing up in Texas in the 70's and 80's we would store rifles and shotguns in the rear window gun racks of our trucks in the high school parking lot. There were never any shootings or accidents with those weapons. In one class taught by a coach we were given extra credit for taking care of putting together a billboard he was responsible for on one wall of the classroom. My turn came in March, so I put up a photo of a bomb with the caption "Happy St. Patrick's Day from the IRA"
I'm guessing that wouldn't fly these days.
That just made me laugh!
We used to take .22 rifles to school and shoot gophers during breaks. If you did that today some gay Mountie would call in a swat team.
Russian school assembly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Thinking that teacher and the cops need psychological treatment.