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Lol, not sure what he was thinking here
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
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The biggest crime is the media trying to paint him as some kind of genius. What the teacher should have told him is it looks like a piece of crap. Stick to fucking goats.
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Now the kid will build a real clock bomb
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You live in a fucked-up world, where seeing something like this, the absolute first thought that comes to mind is that it is a bomb. The school admins overreacted, the police had insane 'protocols' as usual, but the biggest problem is the science teacher. You're a science teacher, yet have no idea what a board looks like? Couldn't deduce in half a nanosecond that for something to explode, there has to be explosive material attached to a detonator of some sort? Pathetic.
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The reaction of the school and police was obviously ridiculous but the reaction by the media has also been ridiculous. You'd think the kid was the 2nd carnation of Thomas Edison by the way they've portrayed him. ::)
Having said that, the biggest threat to American schoolchildren are deranged, manic depressive white kids, not terrorists. :-\
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The full story is that his dad is a radical Muslim who put his son up to this to create more sympathy for Muslims and make it easier for Muslims to get a pass when it comes to security. They want to pretend that 9/11, Benghazi, Beirut, Charlie Hebdo, 7/7 London train bombings and nearly every other bomb attack in modern history was committed by someone other than Muslims.
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Nothin new here folks.....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-finger-gun/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-finger-gun/)
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The full story is that his dad is a radical Muslim who put his son up to this to create more sympathy for Muslims and make it easier for Muslims to get a pass when it comes to security. They want to pretend that 9/11, Benghazi, Beirut, Charlie Hebdo, 7/7 London train bombings and nearly every other bomb attack in modern history was committed by someone other than Muslims.
this. fuck em!
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The full story is that his dad is a radical Muslim who put his son up to this to create more sympathy for Muslims and make it easier for Muslims to get a pass when it comes to security. They want to pretend that 9/11, Benghazi, Beirut, Charlie Hebdo, 7/7 London train bombings and nearly every other bomb attack in modern history was committed by someone other than Muslims.
I absolutely despise Muslims even more than blacks right now. I'm genuinely hoping Hungary starts shooting some then the rest of Europe will follow. Wishful thinkings. Parasitic people who should be exterminated.
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I can understand the concern by the school upon the initial discovery. but at some point well before suspension it should have been resolved
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Cuff him and take him into protective custody and iron it out later. Enough of the politically correct bullshit...You can be asked to take certain shirts off that express free speech in school. And if you don't comply, the school will call the police and have you removed regardless of the color of your skin. Something that looks like a bomb should be dealt with swiftly...
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/opinion-polls.htm
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This little fucker knew exactly what he was doing. He thought it would be funny to build a clock that looked just like a bomb. Too bad they don't gives swats in school anymore. He needs a good beating. ::)
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I absolutely despise Muslims even more than blacks right now.
Same.
The past two years really pushed them past the Phil Heathian-line.
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This little fucker knew exactly what he was doing. He thought it would be funny to build a clock that looked just like a bomb. Too bad they don't gives swats in school anymore. He needs a good beating. ::)
Was thinking the exact same thing. The lil' shit knew exactly what he was doing and it would look like a bomb to others.
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The kid was invited to the white house to meet Obama.
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That kid is a fuckin asshole. Yeah it sucks to get arrested for bringing a shitty clock to school but the kid is acting all cocky talking about his lawyer and shit. He had his 15 minutes now needs to kindly fuck off.
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Fuck Muslims!!
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Cuff him and take him into protective custody and iron it out later. Enough of the politically correct bullshit...You can be asked to take certain shirts off that express free speech in school. And if you don't comply, the school will call the police and have you removed regardless of the color of your skin. Something that looks like a bomb should be dealt with swiftly...
I'm okay with cuffing anyone that carries that kinda homemade thing into school
BUT in this case, I think I read the police arrested him AFTER they knew it wasn't actually a bomb? That's crap.
The kid seems like he's 80 IQ with the maturity of a 10 year old, and the personality of a lawn gnome. Idiot all day.
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I'm okay with cuffing anyone that carries that kinda homemade thing into school
BUT in this case, I think I read the police arrested him AFTER they knew it wasn't actually a bomb? That's crap.
The kid seems like he's 80 IQ with the maturity of a 10 year old, and the personality of a lawn gnome. Idiot all day.
If they believed his plan was to scare everyone they had every right to take him into custody. No different than bringing a real looking but fake gun to school.
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lol at dumbass science teacher who cant tell the difference between a bomb and a clock.
Now I know why the education in America is going downhill.
These are the same teachers who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're" or "their," there," and "they're" or "to" and "too." Then again, most getbiggers can't either. :D :D
IF this kid would have walked into MIT or CalTech, guess how many professors would have thought it was a bomb and called the cops? 0
Highschool science teachers: 920902323
:D :D
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lol at dumbass science teacher who cant tell the difference between a bomb and a clock.
Now I know why the education in America is going downhill.
These are the same teachers who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're" or "their," there," and "they're" or "to" and "too." Then again, most getbiggers can't either. :D :D
IF this kid would have walked into MIT or CalTech, guess how many professors would have thought it was a bomb and called the cops? 0
Highschool science teachers: 920902323
:D :D
The only difference would be the explosive. Hypothetically that part of the "bomb" could have been in a false compartment or even for that matter, located elsewhere in his locker or bag. . I don't blame them for being concerned.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said on Saturday that arresting and suspending Ahmed Mohamed, the ninth grader who brought a homemade clock to school , was totally reasonable.
Palin called initial media reports of Mohamed's arrest "fishy" and said that school officials were totally justified in thinking that his clock, made out of a pencil box, was a bomb.
"Yep, believing that's a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history," she wrote in a Facebook post in which she shared pictures of her kids' pencil boxes. "Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England."
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So here's the deal with the Texas clock incident of 2015.
I see a lot of people talking about how it looked like a bomb.
I asked my police friends these questions.
If you thought it was a bomb, would you put it in the back of your cruiser and take it to the station?
If you thought it was a bomb, would you leave all the students in the school and not have them evacuate?
If the answer to the questions above is "no", then why would you think the police in Texas "really" thought it was a bomb?
They knew and they just wanted to fuck with someone didn't they?
All of my friends said "no to the above questions"... The police knew it wasn't a bomb from jump.
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So here's the deal with the Texas clock incident of 2015.
I see a lot of people talking about how it looked like a bomb.
I asked my police friends these questions.
If you thought it was a bomb, would you put it in the back of your cruiser and take it to the station?
If you thought it was a bomb, would you leave all the students in the school and not have them evacuate?
If the answer to the questions above is "no", then why would you think the police in Texas "really" thought it was a bomb?
They knew and they just wanted to fuck with someone didn't they?
All of my friends said "no to the above questions"... The police knew it wasn't a bomb from jump.
I think it was the English teacher that he showed it to and thought it was a bomb, not the science teacher. Also, the police did know it wasn't a bomb, but he was arrested for a "bomb hoax", not for attempted bombing.
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they admitted they knew it wasn't a bomb, and arrested him anyway.
see, i'm all for kicking the everyloving SHIT out of a punk that brings a real weapon or bomb to school. But if you KNOW it's not a bomb, do you really need to arrest the little idiot?
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I think it was the English teacher that he showed it to and thought it was a bomb, not the science teacher. Also, the police did know it wasn't a bomb, but he was arrested for a "bomb hoax", not for attempted bombing.
That's even worse though... When he shows it to the science teacher, that should be pretty much it.
If they knew it was a clock, then why did they keep asking him "what it was"?
They allegedly asked him about 5 times "what is this"
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So here's the deal with the Texas clock incident of 2015.
I see a lot of people talking about how it looked like a bomb.
I asked my police friends these questions.
If you thought it was a bomb, would you put it in the back of your cruiser and take it to the station?
If you thought it was a bomb, would you leave all the students in the school and not have them evacuate?
If the answer to the questions above is "no", then why would you think the police in Texas "really" thought it was a bomb?
They knew and they just wanted to fuck with someone didn't they?
All of my friends said "no to the above questions"... The police knew it wasn't a bomb from jump.
hey read the story, they did not put it in no cruiser and they did evacuate. The problem here is that you are a supporter of radical islam as you proved over and over again on this forum. There is no doubt they overreacted but better to overreact than under-react.
The only blame here should go on the muslims for being the number one group of mass terror worldwide. Remember, not all muslims are terrorists but almost all terrorists are muslims.
Now go and tell me about a few isolated incidents in the world that involves some non muslim committing terror.
No clue why an ISIS supporter like yourself is allowed to hang out here.
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hey read the story, they did not put it in no cruiser and they did evacuate. The problem here is that you are a supporter of radical islam as you proved over and over again on this forum. There is no doubt they overreacted but better to overreact than under-react.
The only blame here should go on the muslims for being the number one group of mass terror worldwide. Remember, not all muslims are terrorists but almost all terrorists are muslims.
Now go and tell me about a few isolated incidents in the world that involves some non muslim committing terror.
No clue why an ISIS supporter like yourself is allowed to hang out here.
I'm a supporter of radical Islam? What the fuck are you talking about?
You are just lying now.
I am not a supporter of ANY religion actually, so get your facts straight before you start telling lies.
Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post report:
But the English teacher kept the clock, and during sixth period, Mohamed was pulled out of class by the principal.
“They took me to a room filled with five officers in which they interrogated me and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention,” the teen said. “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
But his questioner responded,
“It looks like a movie bomb to me.”
"Instead, no one alerted the bomb squad.
Instead, this English teacher, who thought it was a bomb, kept it with her. Why would she keep a device which could kill her at any minute?
Instead, this principal, who thought it was a bomb, let it remain on school property for several hours, where it could kill thousands of school students, staff members, and cute little hamsters in the science lab."
Want to keep going?
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This is the crazy left winger Bill Maher kind of on your side.
I don't agree with being scared of everyone, but hey, maybe it's cool you do.
Understand, I get where people initially would be like, what's that... What I don't get is how once everyone knows it's just a clock because he said so and they obviously realize it, that they arrest the kid.
That's not how this country is supposed to be.
Land of the Free and home of the brave right?
Not land of the imprisoned and home of the scared shitless.
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Just heard the kid has been locked up in Guantanamo Jr.
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/
In an interview late Wednesday with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Ahmed said he was pulled out of class at MacArthur High School by his principal and five police officers and taken to a room where he was questioned for about an hour and a half.
Still no evacuation here.
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I am still stuck on how I must be a supporter of radical Islam.
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Never once have I supported any hurting of ANYONE of ANY nationality.
Maybe you have me confused with someone else.
I also don't support running around scared like a bunch of bitches being afraid of your own shadow which is what the extreme right has decided to push on us.
That's what the terrorists WANT.
Are you scared of the world around you muscularny? Have you let the crazy Islamists win?
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Just heard the kid has been locked up in Guantanamo Jr.
Should be "resettled" somewhere in South America after about 10 years of interrogation.
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I am still stuck on how I must be a supporter of radical Islam.
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Never once have I supported any hurting of ANYONE of ANY nationality.
Maybe you have me confused with someone else.
I also don't support running around scared like a bunch of bitches being afraid of your own shadow which is what the extreme right has decided to push on us.
That's what the terrorists WANT.
Are you scared of the world around you muscularny? Have you let the crazy Islamists win?
Please stop overusing the "extreme right" nonsense and do not attempt to trick anyone here into not seeing your liberal style support of radical islam.
The greatest attack against the US on 9/11 was done by radical islam. The boston terror attack was done by radical islam.
If you were not such a islam lover you would admit that yes, we must be on guard against those that are muslims, you never know what minute of what day they will get radicalized.
You go and make a blanket statement about being scared of our own shadow? A muslim kid showing up with a box and wires you call being scared of your own shadow? At most you can say they over reacted and you can only say that after the fact.
WE should respect everyone who means well to protect this country even if 99.9% it is proven they overreacted.
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Lol, not sure what he was thinking here
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
I never understood peoples brains when they think someone being a celebrity meaning they have tons of knowledge. I understand he was wrongly accused but it was handled well once they realized he was not guilty. They released him and there was no problem otherwise. I can't believe they actually made the boy feel like he was a public figure and now he's getting invited to the white house and famous inventors are contacting him about stuff. Him being the topic of conversation in the media = knowledge? Absolutely not.
It further proves that the whole liberal agenda is earning minority votes by exposing the masses and false promises of a utopia.
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Please stop overusing the "extreme right" nonsense and do not attempt to trick anyone here into not seeing your liberal style support of radical islam.
The greatest attack against the US on 9/11 was done by radical islam. The boston terror attack was done by radical islam.
If you were not such a islam lover you would admit that yes, we must be on guard against those that are muslims, you never know what minute of what day they will get radicalized.
You go and make a blanket statement about being scared of our own shadow? A muslim kid showing up with a box and wires you call being scared of your own shadow? At most you can say they over reacted and you can only say that after the fact.
WE should respect everyone who means well to protect this country even if 99.9% it is proven they overreacted.
You're an idiot.
Thanks for playing.
I never said we shouldn't be on guard and actually did say so.
Understand, I get where people initially would be like, what's that... What I don't get is how once everyone knows it's just a clock because he said so and they obviously realize it, that they arrest the kid.
You're saying that by me saying I don't subscribe to any religion means I am an Islam lover?
You realize that's the dumbest logic ever.
You're an idiot.
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Meh, little bastard won't fuck around in school again will he?
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Meh, little bastard won't fuck around in school again will he?
Haha. No he won't!
I bet he doesn't come out of the local Best Buy with anything resembling a brief case and if something breaks and he should take it back to get fixed, he's going to think extra hard about how to transport it.
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Meh, little bastard won't fuck around in school again will he?
Research the dad who is a radical Muslim who has desperately tried to make a name for himself by appointing himself as an attorney for the Koran even though he's not a lawyer and has run for president of Sudan twice despite being a resident of Texas and a citizen of the US. He is the worst type of immigrant taking advantage of everything this country has to offer while failing to assimilate and continuing to bite the hand that feeds him.
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Research the dad who is a radical Muslim who has desperately tried to make a name for himself by appointing himself as an attorney for the Koran even though he's not a lawyer and has run for president of Sudan twice despite being a resident of Texas and a citizen of the US. He is the worst type of immigrant taking advantage of everything this country has to offer while failing to assimilate and continuing to bite the hand that feeds him.
Fuck his dad.
I've been catching bits and pieces of him roaming around.
Are you saying he's trying to support Sharia law? If so, he can carry his ass the fuck out of this country. This is a common law country. You immigrate here, you abide by the laws of the land.
If Sharia law is so great, why are all of the countries that use it so fucked up?
Fuck him.
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Lol, not sure what he was thinking here
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
I was on the kid's side until I saw this picture. Something just isn't right about this story because that sure does look like a bomb.
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I was on the kid's side until I saw this picture. Something just isn't right about this story because that sure does look like a bomb.
It's a pencil box. Not a briefcase.
The photo makes it look really big when it's apparently not very big at all.
Remember. It could fit in his backpack with all of his books.
Now, if his dad helped him with it (which I have seen no evidence to say he did) then I could see their being an issue, really if this kid wasn't brown, would anyone have looked twice at it?
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Fuck his dad.
I've been catching bits and pieces of him roaming around.
Are you saying he's trying to support Sharia law? If so, he can carry his ass the fuck out of this country. This is a common law country. You immigrate here, you abide by the laws of the land.
If Sharia law is so great, why are all of the countries that use it so fucked up?
Fuck him.
Irving is full of Muslims. Some public schools are more than 50%. They've already tried to push Sharia law there and are up in arms over a law passed preventing the imposition of Sharia law which the liberal media conveyed to the public as Islamaphobia. Irving is where a father honor killed his kids and used sharia law to defend himself a few years back. It's a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Can't believe he'd build a clock that looks exactly like an electronic timing mechanism with a digital display.
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Irving is full of Muslims. Some public schools are more than 50%. They've already tried to push Sharia law there and are up in arms over a law passed preventing the imposition of Sharia law which the liberal media conveyed to the public as Islamaphobia. Irving is where a father honor killed his kids and used sharia law to defend himself a few years back. It's a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
I remember that story.
Fuck that shit. I don't consider it Islamaphobia to honor the rule of laws of this land... period.
That is not how this country was founded from a legal standpoint and anyone who tries to promote Sharia law in this country should be considered treasonous to the United States.
Period.
I didn't realize anywhere in Texas was a big area of Islam.
50% Muslim population is very large in any one area, especially considering the fact that Muslims are less than 1 percent of the country.
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Actually, you'll find that ethnic congregation correlates directly with xenophobia. Immigrants have historically banded together in communities of their own precisely because the existing population makes it difficult for them to integrate. That's why even today every major city has a Chinatown. Because nobody can stand the sneaky slanty eyed little bastards.
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Actually, you'll find that ethnic congregation correlates directly with xenophobia. Immigrants have historically banded together in communities of their own precisely because the existing population makes it difficult for them to integrate. That's why even today every major city has a Chinatown. Because nobody can stand the sneaky slanty eyed little bastards.
But Texas?
I would have thought Texas would be the absolute last state any minority would think to go.
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Hmm, could be. Still, there's the whole frontier/ Mexi-flood thing happening so maybe it's an electric blanket of immigrant issue stuff and such. The actual truth is that I don't give a shit what happens to Texas.
Being from Texas isn't a thing. You're supposed to do something else as well, not just be from Texas. And what do you do? Well like ' said, I'm from Texas. Ok, well done.
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Hmm, could be. Still, there's the whole frontier/ Mexi-flood thing happening so maybe it's an electric blanket of immigrant issue stuff and such. The actual truth is that I don't give a shit what happens to Texas.
This is a valid point.
I don't really care either, but I keep thinking of moving again and I'm thinking of some place new... I've never lived in Texas, and it's got some good points to it (gun laws for instance) so while it doesn't matter to me right now, maybe it will in the future?
Who knows.
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Can't believe he'd build a clock that looks exactly like an electronic timing mechanism with a digital display.
Exactly..
Why not build a clock that looks like this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Alarm_Clocks_20101105.jpg)
No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:
(http://www.therightplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/briefcase-prop-bomb.jpg)
Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.
If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:
(http://www.perretsarmysurplus.com/images/001645.jpg)
Instead, you would send him out with this:
(http://www.passionforsavings.com/content/uploads/2013/07/Cheap-Water-Guns-300x269.jpg)
I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?
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I'm like 'fck racism' cause I grew up in akron projects then florida trailer parks, and I know it's all about $, not race... Every time some country club upper middle class kid on getbig that has never been evicted tells me about "race wars", I want to spit on their nice carpet...
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IN this case, if it's a pretty white girl with nice boobs and dimples, that brings in a homemade clock, her ass isn't in handcuffs. Let's be honest lol. Particularly AFTER they realize it's not a bomb, and that he showed teachers voluntarily... they arrested him AFTER they knew it was a clock.
this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.
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Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?
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That photo is not an accurate representation though.
That little thing is a pencil box... it's small, the picture makes it look larger than it is. You don't have a frame of reference on the size because no one is in the picture.
Also, no reports have him going around showing it to anyone.
According to all reports, it sat in his backpack as his science teacher told him not to show it to anyone. He left it there until the alarm went off when the English teacher requested he turn it off.
After that, the teacher took it and not until later in the day did someone come get him about it, so he could not possibly be showing it off to anyone.
Was this all a publicity stunt anyway? Possibly, but that doesn't negate the facts of what happened.
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I'm like 'fck racism' cause I grew up in akron projects then florida trailer parks, and I know it's all about $, not race... Every time some country club upper middle class kid on getbig that has never been evicted tells me about "race wars", I want to spit on their nice carpet...
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IN this case, if it's a pretty white girl with nice boobs and dimples, that brings in a homemade clock, her ass isn't in handcuffs. Let's be honest lol. Particularly AFTER they realize it's not a bomb, and that he showed teachers voluntarily... they arrested him AFTER they knew it was a clock.
this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.
You're right.
It also stems from the fact that after the 1993 World Trace Center bombing, we had a full 22 years of hypersensitization to everything Arab and terrorist related. It's our knee-jerk reaction to presume that anyone wearing a turban might be some form of sinister being that is capable of blowing up shit while having nothing more on hand than a few wires and a wooden box.
It will take a while for that school of thought to fade away.
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this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.
This right here.
If his name was Robert Smith, the kid is sent home with his clock and told to keep it moving.
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Exactly..
Why not build a clock that looks like this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Alarm_Clocks_20101105.jpg)
No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:
(http://www.therightplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/briefcase-prop-bomb.jpg)
Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.
If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:
(http://www.perretsarmysurplus.com/images/001645.jpg)
Instead, you would send him out with this:
(http://www.passionforsavings.com/content/uploads/2013/07/Cheap-Water-Guns-300x269.jpg)
I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?
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Great points. Hadn't thought about the possibility of it being a publicity stunt, but I bet you are right. If the kid and his family are so smart, please don't tell me they wouldn't have seen beforehand what should happen.
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This right here.
If his name was Robert Smith, the kid is sent home with his clock and told to keep it moving.
Right.
But as an Arab parent, knowing damn well what this society associates Arabs as a whole with, why would you send your kid to school with something that resembles a miniature, briefcase bomb (amidst all the school shootings over the last decade)?
Because ingenuity aside, that shit looks like an ugly fucking clock that I doubt anyone would ever use.
Also, the beauty of clocks is that they are typically visible to anyone in passing. You actually have to open this little case in order to read the time. How is that convenient? I see it as fucking creepy as shit.
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But Texas?
I would have thought Texas would be the absolute last state any minority would think to go.
Haha. Just google Irving + Muslims or Frisco + Indians. In many new construction developments you'd be hard pressed to find a single white family.
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I can't imagine that ANY kid bringing in a contraption like that wouldn't have went through the same thing.
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Not the media part, though, of course.
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I can't imagine that ANY kid bringing in a contraption like that wouldn't have went through the same thing.
One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.
When will we talk for real in this country?
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He got arrested for wearing a homemade wristwatch , he's white .
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/21/article-0-16157DA4000005DC-750_306x423.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/21/article-0-1626D1D0000005DC-76_634x544.jpg)
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For a dumb kid with limited $, a pencil box could be a logical choice for the case.
If the clock actually worked, I'd be showing it off too, that's something impressive to be honest. I don't know many adults that can build a clock, and the pencil case is handy with all those wires.
Palin still thinks it's a real bomb. Scary she was almost vice president.
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Exactly..
Why not build a clock that looks like this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Alarm_Clocks_20101105.jpg)
No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:
(http://www.therightplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/briefcase-prop-bomb.jpg)
Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150916134402-clock-ahmed-mohamed-texas-large-169.jpg)
We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.
If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:
(http://www.perretsarmysurplus.com/images/001645.jpg)
Instead, you would send him out with this:
(http://www.passionforsavings.com/content/uploads/2013/07/Cheap-Water-Guns-300x269.jpg)
I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?
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Uh oh. Idk the particulars of the case, especially since I get all my news from Getbig, but as far as I can see he put together all the components that comprise an electronic, non-mechanical clock. Put the guts of your bedside clock in a latch case and it's exactly that.
Which come to think of it looks a lot like what he did. A minute ago I was impressed thinking I couldn't build one. Now I'm asking if he even did any soldering. I mean, that is not a homemade circuit board at all and that's where it's all at. That's the whole logic circuit. Did this kid just move a clock radio into a box and plug in a $5 ebay digi-display? But I digress.
Whether the publicity is by design... I haven't got the info. I doubt a 14 yo kid would have the nous. And if someone put him up to it then he'll grow to resent them for it anyway.
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Right.
But as an Arab parent, knowing damn well what this society associates Arabs as a whole with, why would you send your kid to school with something that resembles a miniature, briefcase bomb (amidst all the school shootings over the last decade)?
Because ingenuity aside, that shit looks like an ugly fucking clock that I doubt anyone would ever use.
Also, the beauty of clocks is that they are typically visible to anyone in passing. You actually have to open this little case in order to read the time. How is that convenient? I see it as fucking creepy as shit.
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According to reports, the kid really keeps it by his bed most of the time, just sitting open like that.
If you believe the kid and the father, which most people seem to not.
I have not seen anything to specifically say they are being dishonest in this instance.
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One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.
Undeniable. Everyone needs to carefully think about this, while keeping in mind that ANY kid showing up with a device that looks like a bomb would have people freaking out. All of it is undeniable.
When will we talk for real in this country?
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I don't know how it could even begin. But I am fully convinced the role of "our" media is to keep that real talk from being broadcast.
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One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.
When will we talk for real in this country?
That's quite true and ridiculous as well. No reason why the white house should care about the kid once he is not charged. Many people are freed from invalid arrests and still have their lives destroyed due to the process never caring about the aftermath, only the charge.
This kid is an exception and he should be the rule.
Although, I hight doubt anyone would ban a non muslim from the whitehouse for making a clock.
They are not mutually inclusive.
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According to reports, the kid really keeps it by his bed most of the time, just sitting open like that.
If you believe the kid and the father, which most people seem to not.
I have not seen anything to specifically say they are being dishonest in this instance.
Anyone who nods along with the media believes it.
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Anyone who nods along with the media believes it.
In general I have a distrust of anyone who doesn't eat bacon, but it's not a crime after all.
Speaking of, that Trader Joe's uncured black forest bacon is the bomb.
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In general I have a distrust of anyone who doesn't eat bacon, but it's not a crime after all.
Speaking of, that Trader Joe's uncured black forest bacon is the bomb.
I believe lots of suckers are buying into the "poor Mislim child being abused in America" crock, and they don't realize how ridiculous the story is. That's what I think.
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I believe lots of suckers are buying into the "poor Mislim child being abused in America" crock, and they don't realize how ridiculous the story is. That's what I think.
My problem is not the kid being Muslim, I don't care if he's white / black / brown / pink.
What I do care about is everyone's civil liberties. If this kid was questioned without his parents, that's messed up, I don't care what color they are.
If they knew it wasn't a bomb, then stop being douchebags and move on. Tax dollars wasted.
Also, as the kid isn't charged, it's over, time to move on.
Be vigilant, but move past it.
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(http://www.etonline.com/photo/2015/09/24179508/640_ahmed_mohamed_twitter.jpg)
Classic egghead geek going through life blissfully unaware. Arrested for a school science project. [Legendary.] As if he didn't have a hard enough time in school being named Ahmed Muhammed in Texas over the last decade.
He doesn't want to blow you up. He's jerking off thinking about some cheerleader girl.
Fucking hell, gentlemen. Fear itself, you know?
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My problem is not the kid being Muslim, I don't care if he's white / black / brown / pink.
Yes, exactly. That's the whole point, right there His actions are what matter. He practically asked for this to happen and got it.
What I do care about is everyone's civil liberties. If this kid was questioned without his parents, that's messed up, I don't care what color they are.
If they knew it wasn't a bomb, then stop being douchebags and move on. Tax dollars wasted.
Also, as the kid isn't charged, it's over, time to move on.
Be vigilant, but move past it.
Yes, and to be perfectly clear.. anyone out in public having a device that looks like a bomb is going to be shaken down, hard.
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(http://www.etonline.com/photo/2015/09/24179508/640_ahmed_mohamed_twitter.jpg)
Fucking hell, gentlemen. Fear itself, you know?
I agree... nothing to fear.
That said, I do understand that as others have stated, while HE may be blissfully unaware, maybe his dad has some motive.
Yes, exactly. That's the whole point, right there His actions are what matter. He practically asked for this to happen and got it.
Yes, and to be perfectly clear.. anyone out in public having a device that looks like a bomb is going to be shaken down, hard.
Possibly, but would a white kid really be arrested?
I mean, I guess now he as to be arrested right?
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While people are saying, "Peace and safety"...
(http://www.etonline.com/photo/2015/09/24179508/640_ahmed_mohamed_twitter.jpg)
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I agree... nothing to fear.
That said, I do understand that as others have stated, while HE may be blissfully unaware, maybe his dad has some motive.
Possibly, but would a white kid really be arrested?
I mean, I guess now he as to be arrested right?
A white kid would have went through the same thing... but the coverage would have very likely been local and short lived.
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A white kid would have went through the same thing... but the coverage would have very likely been local and short lived.
I don't know that I necessarily agree, but it's possible.
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Making a clock? He took the guts out of a clock radio. He made nothing. He removed the case from a clock radio. Why is everyone acting like he's a prodigy engineer?
I will tell you this. If you saw a Muslim with a bunch of wires and a transiter board you would run for the hills too.
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I don't know that I necessarily agree, but it's possible.
Policy would cause it to happen. Of course.
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It's a pencil box. Not a briefcase.
The photo makes it look really big when it's apparently not very big at all.
Remember. It could fit in his backpack with all of his books.
Now, if his dad helped him with it (which I have seen no evidence to say he did) then I could see their being an issue, really if this kid wasn't brown, would anyone have looked twice at it?
It looks like a bomb but once they found out that it wasn't, he should have been left alone. However, I think he was trying to bait this controversy into the mix. I bet that his dad put him up to it since he's big on campaigning in the area . If that's the case, its a dangerous game he's playing with his son
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It looks like a bomb but once they found out that it wasn't, he should have been left alone. However, I think he was trying to bait this controversy into the mix. I bet that his dad put him up to it since he's big on campaigning in the area . If that's the case, its a dangerous game he's playing with his son
Absolutely... No parent should put their 14 year old in harms way. I have a 14 year old myself and there is no way I would do that to him.
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I can understand the concern by the school upon the initial discovery. but at some point well before suspension it should have been resolved
Dad put him up to it. He didn't invent shit. He took a Radio Shack clock apart and super glued it in an Amazon pencil case that looks like a small briefcase.
It was obviously a Hoax bomb meant to illicit some sort of response so he could get some attention.
Obama being the Muslim American hating POS that he is invites him to the WH.
Why??? Because this supports his agenda, that's why.
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Let's now forget how shitty this clock looks. Looks like it was made by a 6 year old. A 14 year old Muslim I interested in engineering should do way better.
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It looks like a bomb but once they found out that it wasn't, he should have been left alone. However, I think he was trying to bait this controversy into the mix. I bet that his dad put him up to it since he's big on campaigning in the area . If that's the case, its a dangerous game he's playing with his son
Very interesting. I didn't know that.
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Has anyone seen anything written about how he made the clock? Or the site he undoubtedly got the directions from? (if he didn't strip a normal alarm clock, that is.)
Tapeworm mentioned that he likely couldn't have made the circuit-board, for one thing.
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There's some idea it might be one of these:
(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Micronta-Clock.jpg)
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According to reports, the kid really keeps it by his bed most of the time, just sitting open like that.
If you believe the kid and the father, which most people seem to not.
I have not seen anything to specifically say they are being dishonest in this instance.
He didn't build shit. Isn't it obvious to everyone by now that he did this wanting to create a stir at school so they could scream racism. He wanted the [police to arrest him. Hence him not being forthcoming and not answering any questions that were asked of him.
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He didn't build shit. Isn't it obvious to everyone by now that he did this wanting to create a stir at school so they could scream racism. He wanted the [police to arrest him. Hence him not being forthcoming and not answering any questions that were asked of him.
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It's fair if you don't think so... I'm fine with that.
I thought they asked him what it was and he said a clock like 5 times.
Again, I'm just reading reports and you know how that liberal media is.
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Nothin new here folks.....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-finger-gun/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-finger-gun/)
Exactly. Or when some kid makes a paper gun and gets expelled. Shit happens, but when some white or black kid does it and gets in trouble, no one says shit. Most likely because the black kid is shot by the cops and the white kid is a filthy racist.
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this will go down as another highly strange incident in media.
the kid likely removes an old alarm clock from its original housing and puts it into another container.
wtf ???
then despite all that happens as a result of it, the media fails to investigate why he did something so seemingly inexplicable. they want to say he built the thing in the name of science, then was soundly abused for it... despite the fact that ANYONE with a bomb-looking thing in public should and would be investigated.
not a peep about his dad, either.
news has become nothing but a bizarre stage show.
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news has become nothing but a bizarre stage show a bunch of half-truths and lies.
Fixed.
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Making a clock? He took the guts out of a clock radio. He made nothing. He removed the case from a clock radio. Why is everyone acting like he's a prodigy engineer?
I will tell you this. If you saw a Muslim with a bunch of wires and a transiter board you would run for the hills too.
That's the odd part. He made a nonfunctioning nothing, that looked very much like a bomb. Intentionally like a bomb?
Why?
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The kid isn't really that bright. Not nearly as smart as he wants people to think he is.
He takes a clock radio apart and puts it in a pencil case and tries to impress people at school with his "invention" which is really not one.
The clock radio contains two power sources. The AC power source with the transformer and power cord that plugs into the wall and a 9 volt battery power source.
If you want to make it look like a bomb why leave the clunky AC power source inside? How many bombers ask for an extension cord before they blow you up?
Why did the kid leave it inside? He wanted to show people how it worked and he didn't have a 9 volt battery.
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Fixed.
whatever you want to call it...
stories that don't compute, endless failures to investigate, ads masquerading as news, destructive agendas pushed without a shrug...
i notice now when a "tech world is buzzing" story comes on (actually an advertisement by any realistic definition), the fuckers are putting up the facebook logo and address of the company the "news story" is about. licenses should be lost for this bullshit.
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whatever you want to call it...
stories that don't compute, endless failures to investigate, ads masquerading as news, destructive agendas pushed without a shrug...
i notice now when a "tech world is buzzing" story comes on (actually an advertisement by any realistic definition), the fuckers are putting up the facebook logo and address of the company the "news story" is about. licenses should be lost for this bullshit.
Best is to ignore this stuff altogether.
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The kid isn't really that bright. Not nearly as smart as he wants people to think he is.
He takes a clock radio apart and puts it in a pencil case and tries to impress people at school with his "invention" which is really not one.
The clock radio contains two power sources. The AC power source with the transformer and power cord that plugs into the wall and a 9 volt battery power source.
If you want to make it look like a bomb why leave the clunky AC power source inside? How many bombers ask for an extension cord before they blow you up?
Why did the kid leave it inside? He wanted to show people how it worked and he didn't have a 9 volt battery.
are you saying you'd expect everyone to immediately analyze it to the point they'd make those same conclusions based on the existence of the power cord?
because that doesn't make any sense.
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Best is to ignore this stuff altogether.
i do. the only time i catch bits and pieces of this trash is when i'm visiting someone. tv is worthless to me.
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are you saying you'd expect everyone to immediately analyze it to the point they'd make those same conclusions based on the existence power cord?
that doesn't make any sense.
the power cord gave it away as a simple clock radio. You want to pull this hustle you don't leave it in there.
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the power cord gave it away as a simple clock radio. You want to put this hustle you don't leave it in there.
but if you have a device that looks like this (a bomb to most people), you should expect the take-down is going to precede any close analysis of it. how could it be done any other way?
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i do. the only time i catch bits and pieces of this trash is when i'm visiting someone. tv is worthless to me.
Nice.
I gave my TV away right after 9/11.
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Nice.
I gave my TV away right after 9/11.
i didn't catch on as quickly as you, sorry to say. but i'm now at the point where it makes me so mad to see it, that i'm not going to let it get to me anymore. there's no direct value to gained from it. none. it is pure destruction to those who believe it.
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i didn't catch on as quickly as you, sorry to say. but i'm now at the point where it makes me so mad to see it, that i'm not going to let it get to me anymore. there's no direct value to gained from it. none. it is pure destruction to those who believe it.
Yes.
And manipulating.
Fuck that shit.
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but if you have a device that looks like this (a bomb to most people), you should expect the take-down is going to precede any close analysis of it. how could it be done any other way?
the English teacher keeps it all day in her room but thinks it is a bomb? She obviously did not think it was a bomb which is pretty clear after looking at it for 10 seconds.
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the English teacher keeps it all day in her room but thinks it is a bomb? She obviously did not think it was a bomb which is pretty clear after looking at it for 10 seconds.
no, it's not clear to many people. that should be obvious to you by what happened to this guy.
and someone responsible for bringing it should expect to be taken down while the situation is being investigated (as is exactly what happened).
that's all true, isn't it?
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i've just got to ask: what is the point of removing an alarm clock from its case and putting it into another container?
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i've just got to ask: what is the point of removing an alarm clock from its case and putting it into another container?
To get disciplined , possibly suspended by the school for a "fake bomb" so his professional Muslim troublemaker parents (they are full time Victims) can run to the papers and cry islamophobia
Probably didn't think he'd be arrested but they struck gold when the police put those cuffs on him
The Westboro baptists troll the shit out of people all the time so it's odd that people don't seem to understand Muslims do the same thing - they are obsessed with being victim and the libtards fall over themselves to join in a SJW jihad whenever someone so much as looks at a goat fucker wrong. Muzzie shoots up a cafe in Australia? Let's start a hashtag campaign about islamophobia.
Muzzie makes a fake bomb, same shit.
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i've just got to ask: what is the point of removing an alarm clock from its case and putting it into another container?
increasing resale value.
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Sounds like someone is looking for a payday on the backs of the American taxpayer....
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i've just got to ask: what is the point of removing an alarm clock from its case and putting it into another container?
Bump.
As fucked as it is, the answer to this isn't the troubling part. We can expect it to happen, because that's people for ya!
The kick in the balls is trying to move forward with knowledge that we're being carefully misdirected by an entity that is supposed to do its very best to properly and fully inform us.
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Looks like a bomb.
He's Muslim.
Blame the media.
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Bump.
As fucked as it is, the answer to this isn't the troubling part. We can expect it to happen, because that's people for ya!
The kick in the balls is trying to move forward with knowledge that we're being carefully misdirected by an entity that is supposed to do its very best to properly and fully inform us.
Honestly, I haven't seen anything to say that he just pulled a clock out of one place and put it in another.
If he did, then it's as has been stated, some way to get media attention, however I haven't seen anything say that other than here on getbig and other boards.
No articles about that.
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What the media is not telling is the reason the kid was arrested. His charge was "possession of a hoax bomb". When officers were questioning him on why he would made it, and why he brought it to school, he would not cooperate. All he would tell them was, "It's just a clock".
I wish the county would fully press charges on this little bastard. >:(
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I'd be willing to donate a few dollars towards getting all the Muslims and Gypsies a colony built on Mars.
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What the media is not telling is the reason the kid was arrested. His charge was "possession of a hoax bomb". When officers were questioning him on why he would made it, and why he brought it to school, he would not cooperate. All he would tell them was, "It's just a clock".
I wish the county would fully press charges on this little bastard. >:(
Im confused, what part of "It's a clock I made for science class" is not cooperating? And repeating "it's just a clock" if that's the truth.. is not refusing to cooperate, it's repeating the answer.
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Honestly, I haven't seen anything to say that he just pulled a clock out of one place and put it in another.
If he did, then it's as has been stated, some way to get media attention, however I haven't seen anything say that other than here on getbig and other boards.
No articles about that.
If you could feel confident that it's what he did, what would you then say about the lack of reporting on it?
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If you could feel confident that it's what he did, what would you then say about the lack of reporting on it?
it was on my Facebook news feed that he used an alarm clock.
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it was on my Facebook news feed that he used an alarm clock.
How recent, and what's said... any way you could post it here? (i don't know how fb works, and wouldn't know where to look)
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I understand.. it's a feed from newssites. I'll look.
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So it isn't the media itself saying anything, but folks like Richard Dawkins (of all people)...
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Shouldn't it be reporters asking the questions, BEFORE they run with a story?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't that how it's supposed to work?
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Mmmm.. so what are the chances that any reporters are on the story, checking its legitimacy, right now?
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Interesting how the teen claims he'd previously been called a "bomb-maker" as an insult.
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This is an outrage!!!! >:(
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Richard Dawkins said this kid is a fraud for essentially doing exactly what was shown in that video. He shouldn't have been arrested, but obviously this is not an invention or some kind of incredibly interesting idea.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/18/05/2C6E20CD00000578-3239468-image-a-17_1442549187890.jpg)
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Im confused, what part of "It's a clock I made for science class" is not cooperating? And repeating "it's just a clock" if that's the truth.. is not refusing to cooperate, it's repeating the answer.
Exactly. What else are you supposed to say?
I'd choose my words carefully too. Imagine if you made the mistake of trying to explain the components and said "...and this is the timing circuit." It'd be like the monkey-monolith scene from 2001. It's a timer! It's a timer! You're desperately trying to get across "OMG THAT'S WHAT A CLOCK IS!!!" Fucking surreal.
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/639/590/5c9.jpg)
People have no idea how everyday items operate or what's inside them. "The button I push makes it work. Also magic." Astounding.
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Interesting how the teen claims he'd previously been called a "bomb-maker" as an insult.
Why is it interesting? It's a slur against him because of his name/religion.
He has the worst name to have in a country that has spent $2 trillion fighting terrorism and then exporting the aftermath (refugee crisis) to Europe. Meanwhile catching about 3 "terrorists" who, combined, have killed less than 2 or 3 mass gun killings or even car crashes combined.
I don't know if anyone listens to Michael Graham but he summed it up perfectly - US schools and police hire the lowest of the low education wise and this leads to kids being arrested for chicken nuggets that look like guns, playing cowboys and indians and other innocuous acts. I would blame the media, but they profit from such fear; being so uneducated as to decide what is a real danger and what is hysteria is from a lack of education; putting such people as educators and policemen leads to this.
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This guy is annoying as fuck, but he's spot on. Fuck Ahmed! I wish they'd push the charges and stick him in Juvie. :)
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Why is it interesting? It's a slur against him because of his name/religion.
It's interesting because it shows he wasn't unaware of what to expect.
He has the worst name to have in a country that has spent $2 trillion fighting terrorism and then exporting the aftermath (refugee crisis) to Europe. Meanwhile catching about 3 "terrorists" who, combined, have killed less than 2 or 3 mass gun killings or even car crashes combined.
And those they caught probably were funded by the FBI, even. I agree.
I don't know if anyone listens to Michael Graham but he summed it up perfectly - US schools and police hire the lowest of the low education wise and this leads to kids being arrested for chicken nuggets that look like guns, playing cowboys and indians and other innocuous acts. I would blame the media, but they profit from such fear; being so uneducated as to decide what is a real danger and what is hysteria is from a lack of education; putting such people as educators and policemen leads to this.
I know. But mr. alarm clock got what he asked for.
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Exactly. What else are you supposed to say?
They can't immediately take his word, either. That would defeat their purpose.
I'd choose my words carefully too. Imagine if you made the mistake of trying to explain the components and said "...and this is the timing circuit."
I don't think that was a risk in this case.
It'd be like the monkey-monolith scene from 2001. It's a timer! It's a timer! You're desperately trying to get across "OMG THAT'S WHAT A CLOCK IS!!!" Fucking surreal.
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/639/590/5c9.jpg)
People have no idea how everyday items operate or what's inside them. "The button I push makes it work. Also magic." Astounding.
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Google hosts Texan teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed
By Matt O'Brien
mobrien@mercurynews.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Teacher doesn't like the homemade contraption you brought to class? Try telling Google co-founder Sergey Brin about it instead.
One week after 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was detained for showing his high school teachers in Texas a clock they mistook for a bomb prank, the teenager was getting the VIP treatment in Silicon Valley, meeting with Brin and attending an annual youth science fair at the tech giant's corporate campus.
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Writing that she was was glad the clockmaker "took us up on our invite to attend this year's event," Mariette DiChristina, editor of Scientific American and the contest's chief judge, said in a blog post that "curious young scientists, inventors and builders like him should be encouraged and empowered."
It was a whirlwind trip for Ahmed, who tweeted he was "Going to Cali!!!" early Sunday morning, made a sightseeing detour through San Francisco, stopped at In-N-Out Burger and spent hours mingling with fellow science-loving teens from around the world who convened Monday at the Googleplex for the science competition.
Winning the contest's $50,000 grand prize was Connecticut high schooler Olivia Hallisey, who created a new way to detect Ebola. Other finalists won awards for projects that tackled Alzheimer's Disease, vaccine transportation and clean drinking water.
"Amazing projects and people," Ahmed tweeted from the Monday night award ceremony shortly before flying back to Texas.
Silicon Valley last week had rallied behind the Muslim ninth-grader from Irving, Tex., while he was still under suspicion from local authorities and on a three-day school suspension for bringing the clock to class.
The student, who was wearing a NASA shirt as police escorted him from school, swiftly became a social media sensation and a folk hero for the maker community, getting shout-outs from President Barack Obama and the CEOs of Facebook, Autodesk and Box, and an internship offer from Twitter. A backlash against the Sudanese-American teen has also ensued, with some -- such as conservative talk show host Glenn Beck and Irving's mayor -- defending the school's caution and others -- such as atheist author and biologist Richard Dawkins -- criticizing him for showing off a device he merely assembled but did not invent.
"He never stated that he invented the clock. He built the clock," said family spokeswoman Fatima Tekko, in an interview Tuesday.
As he tries to adjust back to normal life, the teen still has a busy season ahead of him. A return trip to California might happen later, Tekko said, but in the meantime he is traveling to New York to visit Google's branch office there and meet with United Nations officials.
His father withdrew him from his high school while he was visiting Google , and the teen plans to transfer to a more welcoming school, according to the Dallas Morning News.
His fall plans include attending the White House Astronomy Night on Oct. 19 to join scientists, engineers and possibly the president in stargazing from the South Lawn.
"We think Ahmed will fit right in," wrote DJ Patil, the White House's chief data scientist and a former Silicon Valley technologist who hails from Cupertino, in a blog post about the astronomy event.
Patil added: "P.S. -- Don't forget your NASA shirt. I'll be wearing mine."
Contact Matt O'Brien at 408-920-5011. Follow him at Twitter.com/Mattoyeah.
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Is in-and-out halaal certified?
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The kid took his little scam to the top, and we've no one to blame but ourselves.
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The media certainly presented a united front of lies and omission in this shitfest
Did you know that the evil racist islamophobe Irving mayor stopped the muzzies, including the bomb makers dad, from setting up the first sharia court in the U.S. A few months ago? but hey I'm sure that had nothing to do with this.
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i've just got to ask: what is the point of removing an alarm clock from its case and putting it into another container?
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The media certainly presented a united front of lies and omission in this shitfest
Did you know that the evil racist islamophobe Irving mayor stopped the muzzies, including the bomb makers dad, from setting up the first sharia court in the U.S. A few months ago? but hey I'm sure that had nothing to do with this.
Link?
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Link?
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/muslims-are-angry-at-texas-mayor-after-she-stops-sharia-court-here-is-her-epic-response/
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http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/muslims-are-angry-at-texas-mayor-after-she-stops-sharia-court-here-is-her-epic-response/
How can I see that this kids dad was involved? Is he in that video? I'm not against watching it, but when reading the article, I might have missed his name.
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How can I see that this kids dad was involved? Is he in that video? I'm not against watching it, but when reading the article, I might have missed his name.
I'm not sure. They all look the same to me, and all have the same names? ???
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I'm not sure. They all look the same to me, and all have the same names? ???
Kind of like the name John Smith in the US.
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Interesting how the teen claims he'd previously been called a "bomb-maker" as an insult.
And sister got suspended from school for making bomb threats earlier :D :
After the MSNBC segment, Eyman and I sit down in the hallway where she says the same thing happened to her as Ahmed.
“I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with.”
Eyman talks with the slightest lisp, almost imperceptible, but it becomes stronger as she gets emotional.
“I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous, I’m kinda like—it’s like he’s standing for me.”
Eyman said her suspension was in her first year of middle school, “my first year of attempting middle school in America. I knew English, but the culture was different, the people were different.”
This part of Texas is a hotbed of Islamophobia. Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne in March claimed Muslim clergy were “bypassing American courts” by offering to mediate disputes between worshippers according to Islamic law. Residents of Farmersville last month fought against creation of a Muslim cemetery in their town. Garland was the site of a “draw Muhammad” contest hosted by anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller that was subsequently attacked by two gunmen inspired by ISIS.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/man-i-went-viral-my-day-with-ahmed-moahmed-the-most-famous-boy-on-earth.html
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So he took apart an alarm clock and put it into a pencil box and is labeled a genius and is cashing in off of it? Only in America.
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It would have been an epic media-backfire if it caused a trend to develop, with thousands of kids making their own cool clocks to bring to school. It would be comedy gold for the ages.
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And sister got suspended from school for making bomb threats earlier :D :
I'm sure there was some very interesting conversation about the clock before it ever left the house.
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So he took apart an alarm clock and put it into a pencil box and is labeled a genius and is cashing in off of it? Only in America.
The whole thing is stupid.
The clock is stupid.
Charging the kid is stupid.
The kid is stupid.
The kid's dad is stupid.
Everyone is fucking stupid.
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I am fucking tired of him being called an inventor, clock maker or anything remote to it. He didn't invent shit, he didn't make shit. He literally did what any 14 year old would do in smashing a fucking alarm clock and not knowing what the fuck to do with it so he handed it in as a science project.
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I am fucking tired of him being called an inventor, clock maker or anything remote to it. He didn't invent shit, he didn't make shit.
They flat-out lie with words used in that Google article.
He literally did what any 14 year old would do in smashing a fucking alarm clock and not knowing what the fuck to do with it so he handed it in as a science project.
He wanted to cause a reaction, and he knew exactly what it would be. He knew the entire time to play Mr. Innocent, and no one could do anything but suspect him.
It's irresponsible and dangerous how the media played it up like this.
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Watch this... stupid piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing, played the muslim victim card like a pro.
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Donald Trump called and wants his talking points back :D
Fuck you Howard.
;D
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Shady as fuck.