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by joanro on 17 May 2016 - 14:05
by beetree on 17 May 2016 - 14:05

by GSD Admin on 17 May 2016 - 15:05
by beetree on 17 May 2016 - 16:05
I really don't think I would sue any body. I might have written a scathing Letter to the Editor in the local newspaper, demanding an apology and a call for a change in how the situation needs to be addressed fairly, but really, trying to make the situation into a money maker would never cross my mind.
by joanro on 17 May 2016 - 16:05
Reality has already raised it's head to the kid...he's undoubtedly learned careful what you wish for... 'In a long-distance video phone interview with Dallas CBS affiliate KTVT 11, the “Clock Boy” said he was ready to come home and wanted to do so immediately, but claimed a recent armed yet peaceful protest outside the Irving mosque thwarted that plan. Ahmed told the TV news outlet: “I was scared because I’ve heard what happened recently with, like, people with guns going to my local mosque,” adding: “…I mean, they have the right to do that but it’s scary because I’m afraid, you know.” Yes Ahmed, I’m afraid too. I’m afraid people with guns will actually start SHOOTING in restaurants and blowing themselves up at sporting events while shouting “allahu akbar.” I’m afraid people will make bombs out of things that look like clocks they can stick in suitcases, load them on planes and blow them out of the sky. I’m afraid because all of that has actually already happened. And may well happen again. Gosh, what a shame you miss the old U.S. of A, where spoiled brats like you are free to bring fake suitcase bombs to school and become a celebrity. Stay afraid, young Ahmed. And don’t hurry back.'
http://www.allenbwest.com/michele/boo-hoo-homesick-clock-boy-makes-shocking-confession

by GSD Admin on 17 May 2016 - 17:05

by Mindhunt on 21 May 2016 - 19:05
It was a racist driven arrest. Come on, why would the device be kept with the boy in the principle's office if everyone was afraid it was a bomb. It was mishandled from the beginning and reading how it was handled, it was clear that no one believed for an instant it was a bomb. He was a victim and all he wanted to do was build a clock for his project. Clock building is meticulous and detail oriented, many find it calming to build clocks. Would a white middle class or upper class kid have been treated the same way? Hell no.......
by joanro on 21 May 2016 - 22:05
I don't believe it was racist driven...that excuse is exactly why the San burnadino woman was allowed into this country unvetted...not PC to question her religion.
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/09/clock-boy-had-racked-up-weeks-of-suspensions/
by beetree on 21 May 2016 - 23:05
Racism vs. stereotypes, that is the question. Racism traditionally is defined and seated within a sense or superiority of one race over another. The reaction this kid recieved is more closely based on a cultural stereotype that simply acknowledges terrorists are often self-proclaimed Muslims of the most intolerant kind, that we feel the need to differentiate as extremists.
We do that because we don't want to hate everyone just because they are.Muslims. We just don't want to be taken by surprise because we have been naive or have been guilted into ignoring something that turns out to be dangerous.
by joanro on 21 May 2016 - 23:05
He didn't 'make' a clock, anyway. All he did was tear up a digital clock and stick it in a suit case.
If it had been a catholic white kid, the teachers would have done the same...call the cops.
Heck, how many little white kids get suspended for making a finger 'gun', and the little kid suspended for biting a piece of bread into the shape of a gun...surely those adults didn't feel in danger by those kids. But with the clock thingy, it resembled a bomb, so they did what any responsible adults should do.
What if they decided that calling cops would make the teacher appear racist, so they decide not to get involved, suppose it turns out to be a real bomb....that would have been a true tragedy.
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