* Cultures with a long view never stop probing.
* I think there’s three things that explain why Obama and the left have jumped all over this incident: 1) disdain for white Texans who “cling to their guns and their religion” 2.) a desire to have more “diversity” in the STEM fields 3.) a desire to import Syrian refugees—The message you’re supposed to get from this incident is quite clear: We need young Muslims like Ahmed to stay competitive in the STEM fields; thus Americans must become more accommodating and welcoming to Muslim immigrants (and all third world immigrants); anyone who’s skeptical of Muslim immigration (and all third world immigration) into the United States is just a dumb, uneducated Texan who is oppressing young Muslim geniuses like Ahmed.
* The effect of this incident is not that schools will have some common sense reevaluation of zero tolerance. Rather, the effect will be that school and law enforcement officials will be to greater or lesser degrees more reluctant to investigate suspicious activity from Muslims.
Why on earth has this microscopic story attracted the attention of the sitting presidents, his flailing anointed successor, desperate to distract from her arrogance and ineptitude, and a pro-amnesty techie plutocrat?
Don’t be naive.
* I wasn’t even fazed when the story of the poor widdle Muslim astronaut boy turned out to be, what is called in pro wrestling, “a work.” There’s a roaring demand out there for victimhood-heraldry and the supply will rise to meet the demand.
* Anyone with an understanding of electronics will immediately see this “homemade clock” is not the tinkering of a child or teen. It was never Ahmed’s idea to begin with. This isn’t some innocent science project. The picture of the clock exposes the lie. Ahmed did not lovingly patch together IC chips and resistors, as the media would like you to believe. What you see is the guts from a manufactured digital clock, right down to the 9 volt memory backup, and the prefab button board. Absolutely nothing was made. It’s the equivalent of taking the plastic surround off of your TV and claiming you “made” a TV.
Look at the case itself. CNN calls it a “pencil case.” Please. The whole package is vaguely sinister, and it’s intentional. … It’s almost as if someone designed this clock to look like a questionable object.
Again, from CNN: “”I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed told reporters Wednesday.” It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it.””
Ahmed, you didn’t build a clock. You’re a pawn to your Dad’s political and social agenda. This is all a creation of your father. I’m sure he involved you in the process, and made you feel as though you were truly making something, but you didn’t. It’s a clock without its case. Everything in the “pencil case” was made in a factory. See, a legitimate electronics project full of diodes and resistors looks innocent. It usually runs off of a battery, not an exposed AC to DC transformer… speaking of science projects, Ahmed, why again did you bring this to class? Was it part of an assignment? Oh, you just wanted to impress your teacher with a clock you rearranged inside a small briefcase? Hmm…
From dallasnews.com: ““He fixed my phone, my car, my computer,” Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed said. “He is a very smart, brilliant kid.”
If he were so smart, he’d know the difference between creating a circuit and stripping the guts from a manufactured clock. His dad helped him “make” this, and dad helped to make this “project” look as questionable as possible, within the realm of plausible deniability.
The dad is a politician. He made this happen. Whatever agenda he’s advancing, it just further demonizes western society, and reminds us all to be guilty for how racist we all are. Maybe that’s the agenda.
It’s propaganda.
* The “clock” was never considered a bomb. The police arrested Ahmed for bringing a “hoax bomb” to school, which is illegal in Texas.
And their side of the story makes a lot more sense now. Why did Ahmed bring to school a repackaged clock that appears to *intentionally* resemble someone’s idea of a suitcase bomb? It’s a legitimate question, because the clock was not an original electronics project of any interest from a hobbyist/engineering standpoint.
* He’s being portrayed as a misunderstood child genius. The president has invited not only him to the White House but also illegal aliens and sex weirdos as well as making calls to athletes who come out of the closet. The criteria for presidential attention is really something else. What kind of a country is this becoming anyway?
* Obama is just having fun with this, holding up a middle finger to the people in the world he most hates: white American Republicans. I cannot figure out how it will help the Democrats though, unless he thinks the Republican slate is such a shambles that Biden or Hilary is sure to win. Either way, he reveals himself to be a vicious, petty, hateful, mean-spirited prick for the umpteenth time.
* I worked for TSA for a short time. While a lot of it is security theater in the security industrial complex, there was one thing I saw that never became public. In my short time I saw a handful of incidents where Arab/Muslim/Middle Easterners would bring through very suspicious crap. It was often too stupidly conspicuous to think it was some terrorist probing. And in a few of the cases I witnessed it was American Arabs/Muslims. They would do stupid crap like put razor blades in the spine of a Koran or have electronic wire shoe laces. On a few of these incidents the FBI would show up to do some perfunctory BS checklist chat with them before letting them go. I guess it was all just Muslim defiance and civil disobedience or perhaps buying a ticket to the lawsuit lottery.
* Well, if this teacher has a nervous breakdown (after being accused of overreacting and xenophobia by the court of PC) and winds up hospitalized, or dead it’s a problem for the pundits who grabbed those pitch forks early before a proper police investigation was completed.
I guess I am more fired-up over this because I have personal connections with Newtown; my mother was a teacher; and, duh, teachers are being attacked/denigrated/blamed for “failing” to close the mythical achievement gap. There is a nationwide shortage of teachers, and who would want to teach anymore since they seem to be the most hated group of professionals in this country. Calling that teacher, those teachers/administrators in TX morons, will backfire, I think it already has since I saw no articles in our state newspaper today.
Like I said in my earlier post, teachers MUST be vigilant of alleged guns, bombs, knives, violent ideation of students (gleaned from what they write) not to mention: heroin, weed, booze, cutting and burning. Lanza was an extreme case – would that someone could have stopped his car, grabbed his bag, stopped him before he mowed down a lot of kids and teachers in 5 minutes. The public doesn’t know how much his “school shooting” changed everything even more than Columbine. I am just outraged that this boy (must have been coerced to do this by dad/mom,) with his “show and tell” project, (after science teacher said, “put it away”) punked a bunch of gullible pundits, even the President. Besides, in HS, “show and tell” is over if it is not tied to a specific class or science fair.
All I can think of is: AL showed the American public that teachers/students in a building are vulnerable…better to overreact than dead. Playing the race card, PC card (in this TX case) is completely irrelevant and abhorrent after Newtown tragedy. Those pundits should be ashamed of themselves. BTW, they still haven’t settled the 2 lawsuits of parents suing Newtown.
* He brought the case and timing of a bomb to school. He did not build a clock. Briefcase is shorthand for ‘hard sided case’ backpack is shorthand for ‘soft sided’ case.
He obviously did not hope to see Obama what he wanted was some airtime he could show back home so he could be a serious candidate. He pulled equally boneheaded stunts before.
He just got the jackpot this time. A kid brings the guts and case of a bomb without the explosives to school right after 9-11? Yeah and he was told not to show it around because it looked like a bomb. Now I’ve only seen a few bombs but it does look like one.
* In psych-ops you humiliate, confuse and demoralize the opposition. In this case, whites are once again paranoid, low-rent racists picking on poor innocent non-whites. You hammer this over and over as a kind of ambient, background music. Subliminal penetration.
* Ahmed’s clock may not be very advanced technologically–but it doesn’t look to me like a briefcase bomb (comparing the photos).
The real story here is that unlike, say, 7-year-old Josh Welch, the second-grader who got suspended in Maryland for nibbling a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, Ahmed has a Muslim name, so the liberals can scream “Islamophobia!” and his arrest/suspension took place in conservative Texas rather than liberal Maryland, so the liberals can scream “Texas wingnuts!”
This is a zero-tolerance story: Zero tolerance is great in liberal Maryland, not so great in conservative Texas. When little Josh was suspended, not a single liberal pointed to the silliness of it all. Not so with Ahmed, where the liberals can’t stop raising Cain.
* “Zero tolerance” isn’t even tangential to this–because the device is understandably suspicious. Zero tolerance is when a kid faces legal action for stealing a kiss or having a pen knife. It may be tangentially about extreme law enforcement methods–why was he in handcuffs? But that’s like saying Ferguson was about militarized police because the cops there had an armored personnel carrier. Horse shit.
It’s about the US being trolled. It’s about a president who, without so much as a nod to the difficult job law enforcement has, immediately seizing on the nth opportunity to promote the Narrative. It’s about one of the most powerful businessmen in the country, one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and every “respectable” news outlet using it to stick it to us again. “Doesn’t look like a bomb to me” is–I’m biting my tongue. I actually saw some asshole somewhere saying “where’s the detonator, huh?” “where’s the fuse?” Yes, we’re all experts. Notice how all the folk praising the “brilliance” of young Ahmed aren’t too interested in the device. You’d think someone would be showing us just how ingenious an invention it is, I mean, if he’s got a spot at MIT all but lined up. Jeez!
By mostly, the kid wasn’t accused of bringing a bomb to school but of trying to create a bomb scare–which is almost exactly what it appears he did. It’s just they had no idea the type and scale of panic he was angling for. I’m sure his old man is pleasantly surprised by just how far this has gotten. Look forward to hearing more from him.
