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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by elorant »

vog wrote: post #36
userbinator wrote: post #21

Apparently the authorities have determined that the best way to stop terrorism is to discourage any manifestation of personal intelligence, so that the population turns into mindless sheep. "If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning. It is seriously disturbing. I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this i…

> If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning Do you have any sources to back up that claim? It this really their line of thinking? Or did you just deduce this from their actions, i.e. that they seem to think that way?

It's supposed to be sarcastic.

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by userbinator »

vog wrote: post #36
userbinator wrote: post #21

Apparently the authorities have determined that the best way to stop terrorism is to discourage any manifestation of personal intelligence, so that the population turns into mindless sheep. "If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning. It is seriously disturbing. I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this i…

> If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning Do you have any sources to back up that claim? It this really their line of thinking? Or did you just deduce this from their actions, i.e. that they seem to think that way?

Sorry if I was unclear; I mean that's what they seem to be doing. That's why I prefaced my comment with "apparently".

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by ryanlol »

What the hell is a fake bomb? How does a schoolteacher know what a "bomb" looks like? Are we talking about an IED here? That could be literally any fucking thing.

I really doubt that this clock looked even remotely like any of the industrially made ready-to-use explosives.

Sometimes I can't help feeling like some people should be forcibly removed from the gene pool.

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by god_bless_texas »

You can't legislate intelligence. Yesterday I went to my daughter's school's open house. When I entered, I was cornered by an administrator and told I had to sign some paperwork before I left. It was the computer policy. After I signed it, the admin said my daughter had to sign it too. She's 4.

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by thomnottom »

Navarr wrote: post #18

It is definitely profiling and I bet his race had a lot to do with it. But I think the same thing would've happened if I had brought such a device to school - having been a super dark dressed goth in school, the fear would've been it's a bomb. Schools are generally very very extra worried about everything these days, suspending him was unnecessary but with it only being three days I don't see it being a terrible thin…

A 14 year old kid was led out of his school in handcuffs after trying to show off his accomplishment. That's a terrible thing.

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Post by xlm1717 »

userbinator wrote: post #21

Apparently the authorities have determined that the best way to stop terrorism is to discourage any manifestation of personal intelligence, so that the population turns into mindless sheep. "If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning. It is seriously disturbing. I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this i…

The kid was too smart for his own good. He broke away from the other mindless sheep and learned things on his own.

Who knows what kind of subversive ideas he might come up with if he's allowed to continue to think for himself.

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Post by watty »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #10
mahouse wrote: post #4

Say what you will but I would be slightly concerned if Ahmed Mohamed brought this to school http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...

Ermmm... why? Would you be "slightly concerned" if Matt Jones brought that to school? Or Alice Jackson?

Because he's profiling, it's a survival instinct. He sees on the news daily about Muslims using bombs and blowing things up and he's associating it with this kid. He believes statistically that Ahmed is more likely to be carrying a bomb than Alice.

Is this true? I don't know, maybe it is? It's the same reason I am cautious when I walk alone downtown at night and a stranger approaches me. I act differently because I know statistically that they're more likely to be dangerous compared to at 2:00 PM... well, again... I assume so.

The hard part is trying to ignore statistics and the media on things like skin color and religion. It doesn't matter if x color or y religion is more dangerous, you need to ignore it. Thinking differently or acting differently because of these statistics is frowned upon.

In this case, it's silly. Of course it's not a bomb, of course the kid isn't dangerous.

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