Kid's get pulled out of class, their parents called, suspended, whatever for anything remotely resembling a weapon. I read about some kid getting into trouble for bringing a g.i. joe to school, another kid drawing a picture of a gun, another kid chewing his food into what appeared to be a gun.
COps get called, Kids get handcuffed in school all the time for suspicion of drugs, weapons, threats, fights, being high etc.
His parents cried racism and he became a national symbol/hero of a persecuted victim of islamaphobia and went on a world tour. CLock? The little prick knew exactly what he was doing, and the little game he was playing with school officials by putting his so called great clock invention into that briefcase. Now they are suing for 15 mil. They're scumbags.
got all these attention and scholarships to prestigious schools, and instead he chose to go to Qatar!!
Normal kids like us had to actually accomplish something to pay to go to good schools.
I'm sure those that supported him are heartbroken that they won't see his genius blossom in this country.
Skin color works both ways, I definitely don't think what happened to him was right, but I honestly can't say that racism and Islamophobia are all that I see here.
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They hid behind this guise that STEM and academic learning was being usurped from this poor kid who was simply trying to get an education. They gave no benefit of the doubt to the school or police; it was a clear case of bigotry towards a Muslim.
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
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About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
RE: Every moron jumped on the bandwagon so incredibly early Â
They hid behind this guise that STEM and academic learning was being usurped from this poor kid who was simply trying to get an education. They gave no benefit of the doubt to the school or police; it was a clear case of bigotry towards a Muslim.
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
Pfffft. Whatever. Do you even know what a homemade briefcase clock looks like?
They hid behind this guise that STEM and academic learning was being usurped from this poor kid who was simply trying to get an education. They gave no benefit of the doubt to the school or police; it was a clear case of bigotry towards a Muslim.
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
Pfffft. Whatever. Do you even know what a homemade briefcase clock looks like?
I think he's agreeing that the family and little douchebag are at fault.
Fuck him and his family. I hope they get recruited by knifepoint by ISIS
meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
Quote:
About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
Quote:
About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
If you actually READ through the whole thread it has the majority obliterating this putz while the original defenders of this pencil neck have been more like :
(I regret that I had to use to such a cool movie scene to illustrate what the dum dums have been suggesting to this point).
meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
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About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
Who makes a fucking briefcase clock? Come on. Make your little reconstructed clock. Fine. Great job. Really interesting. Why stick it in a briefcase? Ran out of shoeboxes? Or you're just trying to be cute?
meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
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About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
Who makes a fucking briefcase clock? Come on. Make your little reconstructed clock. Fine. Great job. Really interesting. Why stick it in a briefcase? Ran out of shoeboxes? Or you're just trying to be cute?
I think it's an abstract art piece... like a treatise on the modernity of technology obsoleting social norms.
I mean, who the fuck uses a clock anymore? Or a briefcase? Or TTL logic?
with someone who thinks that anything inside a metallic briefcase with a digital display is a bomb. The cops clearly didn't think it was a credible threat, or they would have called in a bomb squad.
maybe one of the cops was on the bomb squad or had training. Most police departments don't have a separate bomb squad and most have part time swat teams. So your average patrol officer could be on one or both. If not, they could have texted a picture to a bomb squad member which is the first thing they are told to do.
Maybe the cops didn't think it was a credible threat, but you assume a lot and often.
My implication is the cops knew it wasn't a threat Â
Lookalike weapons, lookalike drugs, bomb threats, pulled fire alarms.... Just another day in the office. Kids arrested for stupid shit like this all the time to little or no fanfare.
My opinion is that this kid, probably with some help from his dad, took advantage of the current climate of America in which racism lurks around every corner, real or perceived (Ferguson), and played the American media/public (including the President) for fools.
They'll be laughing all the way to the bank. In Qatar.
met this kid then we see him hanging out with criminals like Bashir tells me all I need to know about this family. And frankly, pretty embarrassing for Obama, no?
• There was no "school project" or science assignment to justify Mohamed bringing the device to school .
• Just three weeks into his freshman year, Mohamed was no "science whiz well-known by high school teachers for tinkering."
• The "clock" wasn't made from scratch but just the guts of a mass-manufactured digital clock, complete with AC cord and 9-volt backup battery connection.
• With its exposed wires and lack of a face, the gutted clock looked like a bomb. It also sounded like a bomb: The alarm was set to go off during English class; the beeping startled the teacher who called police.
• When police questioned Mohamed, he wasn't cooperative and was described as "disrespectful."
• The police chief said the device was "intended to create a level of alarm; in other words, a hoax bomb."
• Mohamed's Sudanese father — a Muslim political activist involved in previous Muslim grievances — reportedly asked the cops to re-handcuff his son — so his daughter could take the photo that went viral.
• Mohamed tweeted: "Thank you fellow supporters. We can ban together to stop this racial inequality."
• The family's spokesperson is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror-tied group that in 2006 sued US Airways for kicking several Muslim activists off a flight for behaving suspiciously and rattling passengers — a stunt that looks eerily similar.
1-3 are probably fact. Most of the rest is either conclusion or pretty irrelevant to whether he should have been arrested. For example, did the police know AM was going to tweet something? Did police make a CAIR connection (and what does terror-tied mean?)? Of course not. Did this thing look like a bomb? I think no -- frankly not at all. It "sounded" like a bomb? On the conclusion side, you have the police chief speaking to AM's intent -- he may well be right but unless AM said something relevant, it's really just the chief's evaluation of the same facts we all have.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
1-3 are probably fact. Most of the rest is either conclusion or pretty irrelevant to whether he should have been arrested. For example, did the police know AM was going to tweet something? Did police make a CAIR connection (and what does terror-tied mean?)? Of course not. Did this thing look like a bomb? I think no -- frankly not at all. It "sounded" like a bomb? On the conclusion side, you have the police chief speaking to AM's intent -- he may well be right but unless AM said something relevant, it's really just the chief's evaluation of the same facts we all have.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
1-3 are probably fact. Most of the rest is either conclusion or pretty irrelevant to whether he should have been arrested. For example, did the police know AM was going to tweet something? Did police make a CAIR connection (and what does terror-tied mean?)? Of course not. Did this thing look like a bomb? I think no -- frankly not at all. It "sounded" like a bomb? On the conclusion side, you have the police chief speaking to AM's intent -- he may well be right but unless AM said something relevant, it's really just the chief's evaluation of the same facts we all have.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
And how convenient is it, that the public will never know the school's or police side of the story due to rocksolid privacy laws for minors. The school system begged Muhamed's family to let them release their side of the story, but they refused to sign off on it. So when this gets thrown out in court, it will be because they have access to that side of the story. But the public never will. All the public knows is what Muhamed's family wants them to know, through their attorneys.
why should I care? Everything going on in the world and this gets this much attention?
No, no. Feel free to stick to your riveting contributions on Joe Beningo, Computer Help, and James Jones. Much more in need of attention in this world.
I lived there for a year in the early 80s. I was about 2 miles from Texas Stadium. Irving is a dry city. So it's not only a shit hole, you couldn't even buy a beer.
unless you have an incredibly small view of the presidency.
Obama as usual jumped into this situation without the facts like he did with the professor "police acted stupidly", Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown etc and he should have been embarrassed especially after this kid is embracing a dictator wanted for genocide in Darfur a day or so before being celebrated at the White House. Obama has a bad history of backing the criminals over the police.
I think his comments were right in some of those circumstances. They're wrong if you just remember a caricature of Obama took the side of criminals against the police and ignore the substance of what he said in full. His attempt to communicate very nuanced points during those incidents did not end up doing much good, mostly because as a country we dont much enjoy nuanced points.
COps get called, Kids get handcuffed in school all the time for suspicion of drugs, weapons, threats, fights, being high etc.
His parents cried racism and he became a national symbol/hero of a persecuted victim of islamaphobia and went on a world tour. CLock? The little prick knew exactly what he was doing, and the little game he was playing with school officials by putting his so called great clock invention into that briefcase. Now they are suing for 15 mil. They're scumbags.
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But, but David says we're all Islamaphobes for thinking such things! David knows the difference between right and wrong!
Normal kids like us had to actually accomplish something to pay to go to good schools.
I'm sure those that supported him are heartbroken that they won't see his genius blossom in this country.
Skin color works both ways, I definitely don't think what happened to him was right, but I honestly can't say that racism and Islamophobia are all that I see here.
In comment 12640856 Britt in VA said:
I had forgotten completely about this story until this lawsuit.
I have no idea what this kids name is or what he looks like.
His name is Clockmed.
I laughed
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
Quote:
About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
Pfffft. Whatever. Do you even know what a homemade briefcase clock looks like?
Quote:
They hid behind this guise that STEM and academic learning was being usurped from this poor kid who was simply trying to get an education. They gave no benefit of the doubt to the school or police; it was a clear case of bigotry towards a Muslim.
And as the months go on, it looks more and more like the kid, or his family, played everyone, exploited society and preyed on the emotions of those on social media.
Pfffft. Whatever. Do you even know what a homemade briefcase clock looks like?
I think he's agreeing that the family and little douchebag are at fault.
Fuck him and his family. I hope they get recruited by knifepoint by ISIS
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meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
Quote:
About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
Good one.
Sarcasm sucks.
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meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
Quote:
About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
Good one.
Brilliant, insightful response.
If you actually READ through the whole thread it has the majority obliterating this putz while the original defenders of this pencil neck have been more like :
(I regret that I had to use to such a cool movie scene to illustrate what the dum dums have been suggesting to this point).
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In comment 12640921 Deej said:
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meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
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About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
Good one.
Brilliant, insightful response.
Good one.
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In comment 12641647 Deej said:
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In comment 12641631 Sarcastic Sam said:
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In comment 12640921 Deej said:
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meanwhile in Irving, TX -- where this incident took place -- we have this from this weekend:
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About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.
Just horrifying. Im picturing people standing outside my synagogue with guns and masks telling people about how they're just trying to stop the Jewification of America. It's disgusting. Link - ( New Window )
OK, so on one hand, you have 12 morons rallying in Texas.
On the other hand, you have 1.2 million lawyers destroying America.
So I guess we need to focus on the former?
Good one.
Brilliant, insightful response.
Good one.
I know you are, but what am I?
I mean... Thanks!
I think it's an abstract art piece... like a treatise on the modernity of technology obsoleting social norms.
I mean, who the fuck uses a clock anymore? Or a briefcase? Or TTL logic?
Let them have to drag their asses back to the U.S. to have the kid deposed.
Get all the facts out in this incident.
David's best response was: I'm too smart to dignify that with a response. (translated:I ain't got shit)
the police decided not to prosecute and he was released. This should be a no story.
On a personal note, I believe the kid knew it could be mistaken for a bomb and the cops should have pursued it.
On the comments that it doesn't look like a bomb, well it doesn't look like a clock either as a container with loose wires,
maybe one of the cops was on the bomb squad or had training. Most police departments don't have a separate bomb squad and most have part time swat teams. So your average patrol officer could be on one or both. If not, they could have texted a picture to a bomb squad member which is the first thing they are told to do.
Maybe the cops didn't think it was a credible threat, but you assume a lot and often.
yes.
My opinion is that this kid, probably with some help from his dad, took advantage of the current climate of America in which racism lurks around every corner, real or perceived (Ferguson), and played the American media/public (including the President) for fools.
They'll be laughing all the way to the bank. In Qatar.
• Just three weeks into his freshman year, Mohamed was no "science whiz well-known by high school teachers for tinkering."
• The "clock" wasn't made from scratch but just the guts of a mass-manufactured digital clock, complete with AC cord and 9-volt backup battery connection.
• With its exposed wires and lack of a face, the gutted clock looked like a bomb. It also sounded like a bomb: The alarm was set to go off during English class; the beeping startled the teacher who called police.
• When police questioned Mohamed, he wasn't cooperative and was described as "disrespectful."
• The police chief said the device was "intended to create a level of alarm; in other words, a hoax bomb."
• Mohamed's Sudanese father — a Muslim political activist involved in previous Muslim grievances — reportedly asked the cops to re-handcuff his son — so his daughter could take the photo that went viral.
• Mohamed tweeted: "Thank you fellow supporters. We can ban together to stop this racial inequality."
• The family's spokesperson is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror-tied group that in 2006 sued US Airways for kicking several Muslim activists off a flight for behaving suspiciously and rattling passengers — a stunt that looks eerily similar.
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Good job, bleeding hearts of the media and the rest of America.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
You suck!! =)
You suck!! =)
Really needs its own thread. To complicated to address here.
Some of this stuff is relevant. If the family was aiming to make a mountain out of a relative molehill, that should undercut a claim of damages. E.g. if the father asked that the kid be handcuffed for a photo (I hadnt heard that before but I dont follow this closely), then are the embarrassment damages self-inflicted? Probably.
And how convenient is it, that the public will never know the school's or police side of the story due to rocksolid privacy laws for minors. The school system begged Muhamed's family to let them release their side of the story, but they refused to sign off on it. So when this gets thrown out in court, it will be because they have access to that side of the story. But the public never will. All the public knows is what Muhamed's family wants them to know, through their attorneys.
No, no. Feel free to stick to your riveting contributions on Joe Beningo, Computer Help, and James Jones. Much more in need of attention in this world.
Good job, bleeding hearts of the media and the rest of America.
This reminds me of a Final Jeopardy question:
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Obama as usual jumped into this situation without the facts like he did with the professor "police acted stupidly", Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown etc and he should have been embarrassed especially after this kid is embracing a dictator wanted for genocide in Darfur a day or so before being celebrated at the White House. Obama has a bad history of backing the criminals over the police.