Congrats Texas, you probably just created a future terrorist.
By xfahctor
@xfahctor (14118)
Lancaster, New Hampshire
September 18, 2015 9:04pm CST
And an apparently smart one at that. A kid with an interest and aptitude for electronics, creates a clock, shows it off at school and is subsequently suspended and arrested. Does the fact that the kid was also of a certain ethnic back ground that's been stirring up a lot of paranoia and bigotry lately have any thing to play in how this turned out for the kid? Who the heck knows. But It is very reasonable now to presume it could in the future. This kid is now prime recruiting material. ISIS has a very dangerously well designed psychological recruiting regimen and infrastructure. They recruit plenty of kids like this of any ethnicity with impunity. How hard would it be for them to take a young vulnerable mind and convince him that he must lash out at the people who oppressed him? Or that his place is over there fighting along side his brothers? This is the sort of micro example of the blow back we get when we do things like kill a guys family in a bomb strike. We didn't kill a terrorist, we just created one. And before all ya'll come in with "muh blame america first!" I love America. I hate when it's government does stupid, dangerous crap in my name then tells me I have to send my kids over to fight the people we pi$$ed off last time over it.
/Rant off.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
19 Sep 15
Having kids in the public schools and seeing firsthand how they deal with situations, I truly think this would have happened regardless of his name or ethnicity. And this is why I have always told the kids that they just don't do or say certain things in school or even bring certain books to school, etc. School officials had to confiscate it and investigate. But there was no reason to arrest the kid.The kid's father is already heavily involved in protesting Muslim discrimination and has publicly done so and is involved with CAIR. Could this have been on purpose? I don't know. But I do think that schools overreact a lot. In this case, they were right to confiscate it, if you saw the pictures, it doesn't look like a clock at all. It looks like a bomb. Even 14 year olds know that you shouldn't take something that looks like a bomb to school.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
@xfahctor The more I find out about this, the more it looks like he was put up to it, or even set up by his father. I read that the clock was a basic clock taken apart and put into the case, not assembled by him from scratch. And that he took it out in several classrooms until finally, one teacher got concerned. It wasn't in his backpack all day as they originally reported. Go see what Mark Cuban said about talking to him on the phone. I think they had every reason to suspect that it was a "hoax bomb" or to at least ask him about it, but apparently, he didn't answer their questions which is why they detained him. Now, I think the reason the first teacher didn't confiscate it or have him questioned is because he is Muslim, because they sure as heck would have detained my kid if he brought a suitcase full of wires to school.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
19 Sep 15
I was just talking to someone about the days when I could go to the Pharmacy for Salt Peter like it was nothing and it was really inexpensive as well. Now it would be really expensive and people would wonder why you are trying to buy it at all. Of course for pyrotechnics, but people assume bomb making to be the top of the list before anything else. This world has gotten screwed up.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@xfahctor Yes, that as well. And compressed air is locked up in some stores as well, because it's inhaled, even though it says on the package "The Intentional Misuse By Deliberately Inhaling Contents May Be Fatal." (Yes, I picked up a can I have nearby just to get that phrase correct!)
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
19 Sep 15
I've read a story today about this. It's a comparison story in which they describe the Muslim boy being arrested for building a clock, while a white teen built a nuclear reactor and was offered help with it by Homeland Security.
Because, of course, a black kid who can build a clock is much more dangerous than a white kid with a nuclear device!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Sep 15
Yep, I agree with you. And I saw a post about how the school could not seriously have thought it was a bomb as they did not evacuate the school or call the bomb squad. It seems like stupidity and harassment more than anything else. The science teacher most likely could have told them that it couldn't possibly be a bomb. And the mayor of that town came out and said they did nothing wrong. Stupid.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
21 Sep 15
They mayor is a pretty big anti-Muslim activist herself. Hard core, tea party type republican. Even if the kid was put up to it or manipulated as some have suggested, the reaction is wrong from all angles. It was pretty clear there was no threat, either from the bomb or the kid.
@jstory07 (139697)
• Roseburg, Oregon
19 Sep 15
The parents should sue the police and the school. They never looked in the backpack just heard the ticking. Why didn't
they ask him what was ticking.
they ask him what was ticking.
@DeborahDiane (40292)
• Laguna Woods, California
23 Oct 15
I agree with ForeverTheLamb. The school obviously did not think it was a bomb because they did not evacuate the school or take any similar action. It was obviously an act of prejudice.
