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You don't have a shred of evidence for that so stop passing out pitchforks to the crowd. Artvoice said he apart an old alarm clock and put it in a hobbyist case. Not really an "invention" but he's not a 14 year old kid not a patent attorney. At worst he exaggerated his skill to impress his schoolmates. Not the first teenager to do that. http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

The whole thing was INTENDED to be discriminatory. I can just imagine the father saying "This ought to panic them because you are Muslim."

The reason that I say this? Sorry, but the kid did NOT make a clock. Not even close. He took a commercial clock, removed it from it's case, and put it in a briefcase. Period. I am not sure that the kid learned anything scientific except maybe pain associated with not touching the primary inputs on a 120V transformer.

Here is a link where some engineer was able to identify the MODEL of the clock that was taken apart.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

Actually... it was a Micronta alarm clock (a Radio Shack subsidiary) Catalog number 63-765. If you want an in-depth breakdown, have a look at
http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...
and there is additional info in the comments. Anyone who believes this kids story is either an idiot or is highly gullible. I took electronics classes in high school and if I had tried to pass this off as being built by me I would have been laughed out of the class with an F for cheating. Good riddance and don't come back to the entire family, and anyone who congratulated this idiot should be fired and deported for being stupid. The only award this kid should get is an ISIS award.

There's several electronics hobbyists that have already proven his "clock" was a scam... http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech... People that donated to this "cause" got ripped off big time, including POTUS.

ahmed was trying to do something constructive, in the STEM area.

Unfortunately, it sounds like the whole thing may have been a hoax in a misguided attempt to draw attention to Islamophobia - or at the very least a cry for attention.

Apparently the kid didn't build anything, he just took apart a 1980's Radio Shack digital clock and put it inside a very strangely "suspicious" looking metal briefcase with padded interior.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

So at the least, the kid lied about "building a clock" and at the worst he DID intentionally make it look like a (very fake) bomb (very possibly with the prodding of his activist father, who was also strangely quick to be interviewed and post details on all possible public media).

I hope (unlike the initial reaction) the media (liberal and conservative) takes a breath this time and tries to gather a few facts about what really happened. It has be pretty ticked off, though, as I initially came down strongly on the kid's side against the "totally unreasonable school" (which has apparently been saying all along they knew it was not a real bomb, but considered it an intentional fake), and now it sounds like many people may have been duped. I'm still hoping it was more toward the side of "kid lying about his talent" and not "father throwing kid under the bus for attention to his cause"...

Young Mr Mohammed seems to have
a) not "built" anything, merely taken the case off a clock, and put it in a box....
b)...which looked astonishingly suspicious with lots of bare wires all kludged in there...
c) which was then closed with a cord (why? Why not just latch the case closed with its latches?)
http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

Personally, I don't see this as a binary issue where one has to pick one "side" or the other.
I believe that:
- Young Mr Mohammed was either deliberately trolling his school authorities, or he was used to do so.
AND
- the authorities overreacted as did the cops who absurdly put a non-threatening willowy boy in cuffs why again? ...and the media ate that narrative shit right up.

Here's a guy who reverse engineered the clock he built.
http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...

They gave it to Obama, before he even did anything

In fairness, they really gave it to the idea of Obama much more so than to Obama himself. And really, the idea of Obama is what many people voted for, while in the end we have all received for president the man Obama.

Just curious - would the US govt be interested in message boards where ppl are discussing how to bomb a building?

Then why shouldn't the India govt be interested in boards where people are planning/ inciting the next riots

. Of course, having observed how the riots always occur at convenient times for the local politicos, I don't believe for one minute that this has anything to do with public safety. But I do question the holier than thou attitude adopted by many Americans over free speech when their military has willingly killed journalists many many times.

I do not find his position alramist or "slippery" at all. A LOT of civil liberties in America have been usurped since Bush declared war (oddly though, I thought only congress could do that) on terrorism. This is FACT, not fiction or a statement made without evidence. As an example: It used to be that in order to get a wiretap, a JUDGE had to grant it and there had to be reasonable cause. Now, any state's attorney can grant one without a shred of any evidence required to prove WHY it's needed.

I do not think it unreasonable to assume our (s)elected president and his posse^H^H^H^H^Hcabinet might consider cracking a form of terrorism.

It takes little for a cracker to then be labeled as an "enemy combatant" and all this stuff to play out in closed military tribunals.

No constitution will stop The Whitehouse of Evil!

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