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14 Year Old Texan, Ahmed Mohammed, Arrested For Home-Made Clock Because "It Looks Like A Bomb"

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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.

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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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Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:05 | 6557119 wisebastard
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maybe his clock was bigger then theirs and they got mad at him

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:16 | 6557195 darteaus
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Maybe the clock was counting down...

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:21 | 6557234 nnnnnn
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judging from peoples response to this case on twitter, youtube and zero hedge   america will be so easy to turn into sweden

you can basically do whatever you want to with 99% of people by just showing them some cute pictures and a sad story and they will be ready to kill themselves and cut off their childrens future

 

later you will wonder why your son is working 5$/h and muhammad 50$/h and fucked all of your girls

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:30 | 6557301 Arthur Two Shed...
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Why did Mohamsteak marry a 6 year old and consumate the marriage when she was 9?

 

Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234:

Narrated Aisha:

The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:21 | 6557237 Sanity Bear
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Hillary, Obama, and now Zuckerberg all loving on this kid.

Figured it out yet?

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:23 | 6557244 Onan_the_Barbarian
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Citizen, you don't need to know the time.  We will tell you the time when you need to know.

In fairness, I bet this kid tried to make this look like a cheesy James Bond villian movie suitcase bomb.  He's clearly smart enough to know that it would look suspicious.  Clock my ass.

But the teacher and the cops should have taken one look at it and said "Don't do that, you dumbass." 

 

 

 

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:24 | 6557261 silverer
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They finally get a decent, well meaning, law abiding Ahmed into the US, and totally screw it up.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:27 | 6557276 GIABO
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O ya cause the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it was a "clock". Fucking hate you social justice warriors, kids an idiot and should of known better.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:40 | 6557350 flysofree
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So this is news worthy because the kid is a Muslim?

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:18 | 6557352 Chris Dakota
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Kid knew what he was doing, he wanted to make it look 'badass'

and he got what he was looking for which was charged with making

a 'hoax bomb'.

The left is rocking the system seeing if they can collapse it. He is part of that.

They have no idea how ugly this ends. I am glad he was arrested.

 

I told ya so update:

President Obama defends hoax bomb maker.

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/president-obama-defends-muslim-boy-detai...

Obama sends this just before WH on lockdown due to suspicious package found.  Ya can't make this crap up.

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/mDjBS.0zrhUbclQaiI0MfA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlna...

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:41 | 6557361 Who was that ma...
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That kid sounds like he's probably smarter than all the morons he's had to deal with at his school and the police put together, he's certainly very well spoken for a 14 year old.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:46 | 6557380 Winston Smith 2009
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Considering his activist dad, this was obviously a stunt to sucker the school and cops into doing exactly what they did. His "engineering" teacher that he first showed the clock to told him that he shouldn't show it to anyone else, but he did.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan

When Florida pastor Terry Jones put the Quran on trial and later burned it in 2012, Mohamed ElHassan Mohamed (the kid's dad) was the Muslim holy book's defense attorney,

In 2012, Florida pastor Terry Jones said he was putting the Quran on trial. Jones had threatened to burn the Quran before, around the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, before eventually being talked out of it by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

This time, he wanted to stage a trial at his Florida church, and he needed a defense attorney. Mohamed volunteered: "[The church] put an ad on their channel: 'Whoever feels in himself he has the power to defend Quran is welcome,'" he told the Dallas Observer.

Mohamed, who leads a small congregation of Sufi Muslims, a mystical sect of Islam that is generally more liberal, told the Dallas Observer that he was grateful to have a chance to defend Islam, including his own interpretation of the Quran.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/muslim-at-koran-trial-says-he-didnt...

Mohamed Elhassan, a 50-year-old computer store owner who leads a tiny Sufi congregation in Irving, Tex., readily agreed to defend the Koran. He’d debated Islam with Jones’s supporters before and wasn’t put off by the prospect of interacting with Jones himself, though he knew that the pastor had threatened to burn the Koran in September.

“I thought it would help other Muslims, other Christians and Terry Jones himself. I thought we were just going to discuss the Koran. That’s why I went there,” Elhassan said.

A photo of the clock in the briefcase:

http://static4.techinsider.io/image/55f9b6e29dd7cc14008bad60-1280-960/fu...

Any remotely electronics savvy person would know this isn't a bomb. Many wouldn't, "knowing" from movies that all "bombs" have digital time displays, usually red, right? Which is why his electronics teacher told him to not show it to anyone else.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:31 | 6557657 Sanity Bear
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I knew there would be a political connection.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:53 | 6557435 cinderalle
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remember Obama you didnt make that, you should not make or create anything in America, and people wonder why the country is going down the toilet, this is lunacy

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:59 | 6557478 Dollar Number Zero
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Wow, I and my son build a multi-function Tesla coil for a school science project. I guess we were lucky that the 1 amp Tesla coil was not mistaken as a weapon of mass destruction. I could now imagine that the gizmo could have awarded me "A" ticket to club Gitmo and my son spending the rest of his childhood in duress under the care of child protective services as punishment for his genius.

Let’s all chant “LAST STAGE OF EMPIRE” so to speed up the collapse to save our children from suffering from the establishments stupid attacks.  Moreover, I pray that there is enough unpolluted young minds left after the fall so they can rebuild a better future for their children. Remember a young brilliant mind is a true weapon of mass construction.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:17 | 6557582 Winston Smith 2009
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"Wow, I and my son build a multi-function Tesla coil for a school science project. I guess we were lucky that the 1 amp Tesla coil was not mistaken as a weapon of mass destruction."

Knowing what a Tesla coil is, I doubt it was in a briefcase with a large digital clock.

This event was obviously a stunt to sucker the school and cops into doing exactly what they did thereby drawing all kinds of free publicity and typically uniformed, knee-jerk indignation. About that, see my post above which includes a link to a photo of the actual clock which you won't find in any of the politically correct outrage articles on the web. Wonder why?

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 19:19 | 6558124 Dollar Number Zero
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It was a mini 1 amp mini Tesla coil that could fit inside a small 12" X 12" x 12" milk crate.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:01 | 6557485 Arthur Schopenhauer
Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:20 | 6557612 Chris Dakota
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Well Barry "That's what makes America great"

 

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/mDjBS.0zrhUbclQaiI0MfA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlna...

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:18 | 6557593 jcdenton
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In high school, I took a class in aerospace where we actually made (designed from scratch, not kits) rockets, and fired off them on school campus. Would that be allowed today? Probably not. Violates the Patriot Act ..

Today you can only build delivery vehicles for potential explosives under supervision of the feral govt ..

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:28 | 6557649 PaperBear
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Are they really this stupid ?

Why climb a mountain ? Because it is there, that is why. Why build this thing ? Because it is creative.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:32 | 6557662 PaperBear
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In the Obama tradition of 'you didn't build that, the community built that', shouldn't the community be charged with building a hoax bomb ?

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:38 | 6557692 Sanity Bear
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Or perhaps because your political activist father put you up to it in order to generate a timely Muslim feel-good story to justify importing 100,000 feral Syrian Mohammadeans?

 

I thought people here were good at smelling out a con.

 

Correction. I previously thought people here were good at smelling out a con.

 

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 17:46 | 6557719 Chris Dakota
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Or their is the clash of the Titans going on which I have suspected since the murder in San Fran pier.

Now the package shows up at the WH.

It is obvious to me there are competing false flags as well.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 18:20 | 6557862 tarheeler
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Na, ZH readers used to be a smart group of people but now we are overrun with liberals who will shit all over you if your opinion is different or original. Their favorite retaliation when they have no arguement is to wish that you were castrated.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 18:56 | 6558020 Spiritof42
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If anybody needs more proof, the kid got invited to the White House to meet Obama. Zuckerberg gave him an invite too.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 18:58 | 6558025 satan2liberals
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How about posting a picture of said clock before we rush to defending

 lil mohammad?

 

We're tired of getting 1/2 the story up front.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 20:53 | 6558464 Teh Finn
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Taqiya.  You ****ing fools defending him are falling all over yourselves to aid him.

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 21:27 | 6558577 Chris Dakota
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He is the new Trayvon since Barry tweeted.

They are holding clocks and saying he is brownnnnnnn like the old gray hoodies.

And he is begging for money now

https://twitter.com/IStandWithAhmed

Wed, 09/16/2015 - 22:27 | 6558778 dochood
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Yeah, I feel bad for the Muslim Clock kid getting suspended because of the idiot zero-tolerance program at his school. But you know what? That kind of crap happens EVERY SINGLE DAY in America to white, black, hispanic, etc kids... and it seems only the "right wing" press ever bothers to talk about it. Now that it is a MUSLIM kid (or a kid with a Muslim name) getting nailed, now EVERY ONE is up in arms about the ISLAMOPHOBIA "on display" at this school. Once again, just like "Black Lives Matter", SOMEBODY is misdirecting all of the anger. "Black Lives Matter" should be "Cops Need to Stop Using Deadly Force Against Non-Threatening Citizens"... The campaign here against "Islamophobia" should be against "zero-tolerance". But, it only becomes an issue of in officially-sanctioned "victim-group" is affected, and then, it only becomes THEIR issue because of whatever particular buzz-victimization word they decide to market it under.

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