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jelun

moldyoldy wrote:

I said: it's sad they thought that kid had a bomb.... (show quote)

Cuz, you know, we were keeping the students safe.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

moldyoldy wrote:

Texas high school student arrested, suspended after bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, says his hobby is to "invent stuff," and he stands by his assertion that, contrary to what police and officials at his high school say, the homemade clock he brought to show teachers was not a fake bomb.

The freshman at MacArthur High School was detained by police Monday after the principal and authorities were shown his invention. Mohamed said he enjoys making radios and other gadgets at home, so on Sunday, he spent about 20 minutes putting together the clock, using a circuit board, digital display, and case. He told The Dallas Morning News he showed his engineering teacher at the beginning of the school day, who said it was "really nice," then added, "I would advise you not to show any other teachers." Mohamed kept the clock in his bag, but an English teacher heard the alarm go off during class, and he showed her the device. Mohamed said she told him it "looks like a bomb," then kept it.

Mohamed said he was in sixth period when the principal, accompanied by a police officer, pulled him from class. He was led to a room where four other officers were waiting for him, including one he had never seen before who said: "Yup, that's who I thought it was." Mohamed said he was searched and told by the principal that if he didn't write a statement, he'd be expelled. Mohamed was handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted. After that, he was released to his parents.

Police spokesman James McLellan said authorities "have no information that he claimed it was a bomb. He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation." When pressed by The Dallas Morning News, McLellan added, "It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?" Mohamed maintains that the clock was built to tell time. He has been suspended from school for three days, which his father finds upsetting. "He just wants to invent good things for mankind," explained Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, a Sudanese immigrant. "But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-high-school-student-arrested-suspended-after-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school/ar-AAelysP?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Texas high school student arrested, suspended afte... (show quote)

You think your son got mistreated? A student suspended because he decided to make something that looked like a weapon. The case of Ahmed Clock Bomb Mohamed? Nope try a seven-year-old boy who nibbled a Pop-Tart into a gun.

At the end of the 2013 school year, seven-year-old Josh Welch was suspended for two days for biting the toaster pastry into a shape that kind of looked like a firearm. In addition, the incident would stay on his permanent record until he left high school and might even be asked about during the college admissions process.

Why didnt we hear about this for weeks on end? Well, Welch was white and the Islamophobia aspect simply couldnt be worked into the story the way it was with Mohamed.

(Welch) was just as imaginative and is just as adventurous as Steve Jobs was at the age of 7, said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the Anne Arundel County, Maryland Welch family.

They tried to brand this kid and throw him under the bus, and hes going to be in the school system for more than 10 years, Ficker said, according to the The Huffington Post.

Nobody is saying that the case of Ahmed Mohamed, in which the teen was arrested by Irving, Texas, officials after bringing a homemade clock to school, wasnt an overreaction by school authorities who should have known better.

The facts will come out in due time, and we can all judge whether school officials erred on the side of caution or blew the incident out of proportion. However, lets make a comparison between these two cases.

Mohameds clock, with its wires, flashing red LED and briefcase housing, could be reasonably construed to be a bomb by a casual onlooker. There is no amount of conceivable alteration that could make a Pop-Tart look like anything other than a Pop-Tart.

A 14-year-old like Mohamed could conceivably create a bomb. No 7-year old nor anyone short of MacGyver could fashion a gun out of a Pop-Tart. Its challenging enough just to make it edible.

Mohamed got invited to the White House. All Welch got was a lifetime membership in the NRA.

If theres any cultural issue at work in the arrest of young Ahmed Mohamed, its not Islamophobia, its an insane culture of zero tolerance for normal male behavior in our nations schools.

However, since the mainstream media inexplicably supports the bubble-wrapping of our children by overzealous educators, its much more expedient for them to blame intolerance, even if that intolerance doesnt exist.

H/T Mad World News

Anigav6969

mwdegutis wrote:

You think your son got mistreated? A student suspended because he decided to make something that looked like a weapon. The case of Ahmed Clock Bomb Mohamed? Nope try a seven-year-old boy who nibbled a Pop-Tart into a gun.

At the end of the 2013 school year, seven-year-old Josh Welch was suspended for two days for biting the toaster pastry into a shape that kind of looked like a firearm. In addition, the incident would stay on his permanent record until he left high school and might even be asked about during the college admissions process.

Why didnt we hear about this for weeks on end? Well, Welch was white and the Islamophobia aspect simply couldnt be worked into the story the way it was with Mohamed.

(Welch) was just as imaginative and is just as adventurous as Steve Jobs was at the age of 7, said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the Anne Arundel County, Maryland Welch family.

They tried to brand this kid and throw him under the bus, and hes going to be in the school system for more than 10 years, Ficker said, according to the The Huffington Post.

Nobody is saying that the case of Ahmed Mohamed, in which the teen was arrested by Irving, Texas, officials after bringing a homemade clock to school, wasnt an overreaction by school authorities who should have known better.

The facts will come out in due time, and we can all judge whether school officials erred on the side of caution or blew the incident out of proportion. However, lets make a comparison between these two cases.

Mohameds clock, with its wires, flashing red LED and briefcase housing, could be reasonably construed to be a bomb by a casual onlooker. There is no amount of conceivable alteration that could make a Pop-Tart look like anything other than a Pop-Tart.

A 14-year-old like Mohamed could conceivably create a bomb. No 7-year old nor anyone short of MacGyver could fashion a gun out of a Pop-Tart. Its challenging enough just to make it edible.

Mohamed got invited to the White House. All Welch got was a lifetime membership in the NRA.

If theres any cultural issue at work in the arrest of young Ahmed Mohamed, its not Islamophobia, its an insane culture of zero tolerance for normal male behavior in our nations schools.

However, since the mainstream media inexplicably supports the bubble-wrapping of our children by overzealous educators, its much more expedient for them to blame intolerance, even if that intolerance doesnt exist.

H/T Mad World News

You think your son got mistreated? A student suspe... (show quote)

Pop tarts ARE dangerous....especially on your teeth !......but damn their good...especially toasted !

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Anigav6969 wrote:

Pop tarts ARE dangerous....especially on your teeth !......but damn their good...especially toasted !

Nothing like a little deflection to put things in perspective.

Anigav6969

mwdegutis wrote:

Nothing like a little deflection to put things in perspective.

You obviously haven't had a toasted pop tart in awhile

jelun

As usual you twist the facts... since it was more than two years ago nobody remembers all the facts so I checked...

The incident has captured national attention and focused a debate on what constitutes a threat among schoolchildren. Josh's suspension came in the wake of heightened security concerns in schools across the country following the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children were killed.

In the weeks following the school system's decision, Josh and his father appeared on Fox News and local television broadcasts. On Monday, J.B. Welch spoke at North County Area Library in Glen Burnie as a guest of Anne Arundel County Campaign for Liberty, a chapter of the Maryland Liberty Political Action Committee. On its website, the chapter described the suspension as "the latest example of overzealous government hysterics."
The incident prompted State Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican representing Baltimore and Harford counties, to introduce a bill to prohibit principals "from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/student-suspended-for-pop-tart-gun_n_2903500.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-suspended-gun-shaped-pop-tart-lifetime-nra-membership-article-1.1359918
Not enough attention for you, for a 2 day in house suspension?
So yes, it did get weeks of attention.
Now what?

mwdegutis wrote:

You think your son got mistreated? A student suspended because he decided to make something that looked like a weapon. The case of Ahmed Clock Bomb Mohamed? Nope try a seven-year-old boy who nibbled a Pop-Tart into a gun.

At the end of the 2013 school year, seven-year-old Josh Welch was suspended for two days for biting the toaster pastry into a shape that kind of looked like a firearm. In addition, the incident would stay on his permanent record until he left high school and might even be asked about during the college admissions process.

Why didnt we hear about this for weeks on end? Well, Welch was white and the Islamophobia aspect simply couldnt be worked into the story the way it was with Mohamed.

(Welch) was just as imaginative and is just as adventurous as Steve Jobs was at the age of 7, said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the Anne Arundel County, Maryland Welch family.

They tried to brand this kid and throw him under the bus, and hes going to be in the school system for more than 10 years, Ficker said, according to the The Huffington Post.

Nobody is saying that the case of Ahmed Mohamed, in which the teen was arrested by Irving, Texas, officials after bringing a homemade clock to school, wasnt an overreaction by school authorities who should have known better.

The facts will come out in due time, and we can all judge whether school officials erred on the side of caution or blew the incident out of proportion. However, lets make a comparison between these two cases.

Mohameds clock, with its wires, flashing red LED and briefcase housing, could be reasonably construed to be a bomb by a casual onlooker. There is no amount of conceivable alteration that could make a Pop-Tart look like anything other than a Pop-Tart.

A 14-year-old like Mohamed could conceivably create a bomb. No 7-year old nor anyone short of MacGyver could fashion a gun out of a Pop-Tart. Its challenging enough just to make it edible.

Mohamed got invited to the White House. All Welch got was a lifetime membership in the NRA.

If theres any cultural issue at work in the arrest of young Ahmed Mohamed, its not Islamophobia, its an insane culture of zero tolerance for normal male behavior in our nations schools.

However, since the mainstream media inexplicably supports the bubble-wrapping of our children by overzealous educators, its much more expedient for them to blame intolerance, even if that intolerance doesnt exist.

H/T Mad World News

You think your son got mistreated? A student suspe... (show quote)

jelun

mwdegutis wrote:

Nothing like a little deflection to put things in perspective.

Weren't you making the same argument about Doritos? Or was it one of your dishonest pals?
It is called humor, WMD.

jelun

mwdegutis wrote:

Of course you left this outBut House Speaker Mich... (show quote)

Oh, I see the irony.
You support a little white kid who has, at 7 yo, been indoctrinated into the gun culture in the country to such an extent that he has to turn a piece of breakfast cardboard into a facsimile and wave it around like a weapon.
Is this overreach? Of course.
Is the situation in Texas one of overreaction? Of course.

You have forgotten that the reason I responded with the information that I did was to rebut your assertion that the situation with the second grader received no attention.
You can try to pretend that it was about the legislature. It was not. That is why I didn't include positions that it was for a school district to deal with. No more small gov't arguments, I guess. Gotta love conservative hypocrisy.

You can scream about real bombs all you wish.
By the time they neglected to evacuate the school they demonstrated to all of us that they knew it was not a bomb.
So why was he arrested and suspended?

I won't even ask about your inability to see the difference in the two situations, your racist positions proceed you, Christian.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

jelun wrote:

Oh, I see the irony. br You support a little whit... (show quote)

If you'll look back at my reply to you there was NOT ONE mention of race yet you brought it up not even ten words in to your "diatribe" and had the audacity to call me a racist in the end.

moldyoldy

mwdegutis wrote:

If you'll look back at my reply to you there was NOT ONE mention of race yet you brought it up not even ten words in to your "diatribe" and had the audacity to call me a racist in the end.

You do not need to say it, when you now and forever imply it.

moldyoldy

mwdegutis wrote:

How did I imply it? Are you putting words in my mouth?

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Why didnt we hear about this for weeks on end? Well, Welch was white

moldyoldy

mwdegutis wrote:

Nothing like a quote out of context to forward your narrative. Besides, I didn't say it, it was from the article.

The quote said it, while it also shows that you implied it.

jelun

moldyoldy wrote:

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Why didnt we hear about this for weeks on end? Well, Welch was white

And the whole "we didn't hear about it for weeks on end" was a lie anyway.

Anigav6969

Ve'hoe wrote:

This is why they came to the "lefty only site",,,, so they can control discussions they cannot win in open forum.....

they are losers,, and it is laughably lame!!

No, we just wanted to get away from A'Hoe's like you !.......it gets tiring listening to the miserable old farts all the time

moldyoldy

Ve'hoe wrote:

Then get your head out of your liberal a-s,,,,,

Why do you post here V'hoe? You have nothing to contribute, but your vile invectives. We strive to have civil discussions. Not ignorant insults.