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Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School
The Grim Reefer writes: In a followup to this morning's story about the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, President Obama has invited the teen to the White House via Twitter. The President tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great." The Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas sent an email to parents about the incident asking students to: "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior."
Where's the gofundme? After being punished so badly for doing everything right, I think the wealthier geeks in the world could have 4 years of college paid for in a few days.
They don't need to smear his name with silly stuff like that, IMO. The man is a liar, he has broken his promises to us, and his primary accomplishments have been an expansion of the power of the government.
This nice gesture does not make up for his abuse of power against his people.
Not because I don't want them to learn about evolution
Not because I think Jeebuz thinks the road to hell is paved with Global warming or that that allow gay kids in school.
It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads who can't tell the difference between a circuit board and an IED, because little children get arrested for sexual assault for kissing another child, because now that police are patrolling the schools, causing little kids getting arrested for resisting arrest and assault felonies and a million other stupid things.
You cannot build intelligent adults from the hopelessly stupid school teachers and administrators who apparently orgasm when they destroy a child's future.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Would a kid of any other background been arrested?
YES....
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
It's a good move, but I know an even better one. How about "inviting" (summoning) the teacher, the principle, the police officers and their chief of police to the White House, to ask them what the fuck they were thinking. The president giving these idiots an earful semi-publicly (not in public but it'll make the news) might give other panic-mongers and closet dictators some pause. It'll be worth it even in the extremely unlikely event that the backlash from a presidential chewing-out allows a terrorist to slip through. Fear, suspicion, surveillance and oppression aren't going to stop them anyway.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
The 1970's were awesome! The FBI asked my mother about the tall, tomato-less tomato plants that my bother grew in the backyard and she insisted were tomato plants (they weren't). The Hell's Angels and the sheriff department had a brawl down the street that brought out the fire trucks and news media. Firecrackers were sold on every street corner no matter how many roofs caught on fire.
And if police were ever to detain you for hours because you had a Raspberry Pi in your backpack, you'd shit on the floor in fury and start looking for a lawyer.
The whole thing might not be so bad if it wasn't for the official statements from the Irving, Texas mayor, the principal of the school and the police chief. They're still pretending that there was some danger to the students. There was not.
And they STILL suspended the kid from school for three days. Fucking Texas is a shithole. When they're not executing innocent people, they're running around thinking that the U.S. Military is invading them and when they're not Jade Helming themselves into a frenzy, they're banning science and history in the classroom if it doesn't conform to Christian teaching. Now, when a kid builds a clock and takes it to school, they arrest him because they "wanted a broader explanation of its purpose". Basically, the kid said, "This is a clock" and they said, "Yeah, but what's it FOR? And what kinda name is "Ahmed" anyway?"
I'm just surprised they didn't fire a warning shot into the kid's head.
You are welcome on my lawn.
When my dad was a hippie in the sixties and lived briefly in Milwaukee they had the same "red line" for "long-hairs" as for blacks. He literally walked half a block into the wrong neighborhood, and was stopped by the police and told which side of town he was allowed in.
The difference is, as a long-hair he was driven back to "his side of town." If he was black, he'd have probably spent a night in jail to "explain the situation." That was before they realized they could just shoot blacks, of course.
Back then, I'm also not sure being "brown" would have even been different than "black."
I don't know if you noticed, but there's been a war on law enforcement recently.
Seems I missed it, since the number of police officers being killed is 13% lower than last year. And if you figure that there are around 765,000 sworn police officers at the state and local level and, so far this year, there are about 26 police officers killed (or about 0.003%), it's not much of a war.