Irving, Texas, authorities — I use that term loosely — announced yesterday that the case has been closed. Over. Finito. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
What case? That of the 14-year-old clock-maker assumed to be a potential bomb-making/let’s‑err-on-the-side-of-panic terrorist.
Perhaps it didn’t help that the youngster had the wrong last name: Mohamed. Or that his family had immigrated from Sudan.
Ahmed loves to tinker. On Monday, he brought one project, a clock, to school hoping to impress his engineering teacher. His teacher mistook the clock for an improvised bomb, and told Ahmed not to show it to anyone. When the clock’s alarm went off later, his English teacher took the clock and told him to pick it up after school.
Later, the principal pulled Ahmed out of class. Five policemen then interrogated the lad, eventually handcuffing and marching him to juvenile detention.
A police spokesman admitted there was never any threat made. And, of course, no bomb. Ahmed’s engineering teacher clearly wasn’t scared. Yet, this 14-year-old was still treated like a … terrorist.
Before being released.
Some charge this is a case of obvious bias against this student’s race or religion. Maybe that’s why even Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the student and why President Obama invited Ahmed to bring his clock to the White House.
Though prejudice may be part of this story, I doubt it’s the main issue. Many students not named Mohamed have been treated similarly — for bringing a butter knife to cut an apple at lunch, or gnawing a PBJ sandwich into the shape of a gun, or (horrors!) “shooting” pointed fingers at classmates.
Public school’s zero-judgment zero-tolerance is equal opportunity insanity.
Not Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
5 replies on “Case Closed … But Ticking”
Paranoia is the fuel of the police state patrol car, and enhanced interrogation room.
Liberty has always be paid for by blood and treasure — and so it must remain if there is to be any liberty at all.
Paul, I think this may be a setup: http://www.infowars.com/fake-hate-is-clock-kid-furor-all-a-big-setup/. My tendency these days is to disbelieve anything reported by mainstream media. They’re an integral part of unfolding the agenda of full-spectrum dominance of the individual by the Western Cabal.
Here’s more on this type of ilk: http://dailysign.al/1F8HL3n
The boy claimed he had made a clock and put it in the case so as not to upset anyone. This young man is clearly capable of building a clock from scratch based on his work with robotics and other electronics.
Turns out it is a 1980’s RadioShack clock removed from the factory case and installed in a pencil box. So the young man lied. The police can tell you that it is very similar to the unit that is used to train police in identifying IEDs. Journalists can tell you this is the SECOND one he has made. Why?? His father and CAIR are now suing over the sons detention. Who are they suing?? The teachers? No. The Principal? No. The Police or Police Chief? No. How about the Mayor… This is the town where the mayor refused to allow the Muslims to start an illegal Sharia Court. Yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Be careful with this one, Mr Jacob. The kid invented nor made anything approaching a clock. What he did, was take an off-the-shelf clock and break it apart the way bomb makers do and, from it, made a timer. The kind of timer that moslem terrorists have used to trigger the detonators of scores of thousands of deadly bombs, employed in the mass murder of many of islam’s 1400 years high pile of a half billion barbarically-buggered and brutally-butchered bodies.
Now the family are suing the pants off the “local authorities.”
My money is New York City to a single second-hand brick the whole deal is a designed-to-dangerously-disarm-us scam.
Brian Richard Allen