Smart kid. He won't get invited to the White House and he won't be offered a scholarship to MIT. He is a true American and that doesn't fit with the PC agenda of bending over backward like a goat and taking it up the ass from our "peaceful muslims." Ahmed is supposed to be a smart kid. Is he so smart that MIT knows he would qualify for admittance? Everybody who goes to MIT is smart. Ahmed is 14. 14 year olds do dumb things. But seriously, when you were 14 would you have brought a "clock" to school in a metal briefcase with wires knowing that it would appear to be a bomb to a lot of people. I thing not. Unless you are a muslim trying to provoke a reaction. Or making a test run for a real bombing later. His parents by now have surely lawyered up. Arresting and handcuffing Ahmed was not necessary but he should rightfully have been detained untl it could be ascertained whether or not it really was a bomb. From the pictures I've seen I don't know where the explosives would be but it could still be a remote detonation device for explosives nearby. It is not racist to be vigilant about the activities of a member of a religion sworn to kill anybody who isn't a member. Or is a member of the wrong kind of muslim sect. It's common sense. It's well known that ISIS is actively recruiting young American and European muslims and others and attempting to radicalize them and get them to commit acts of terrorism on American and European soil. Has Ahmed's computer, cell phone and social media activities even been examined? Be pretty damned interesting to see what they would find.
Video, :55 "I would have never got this far if it wasn't for you guys." Gee, sounds like someone who wanted attention.
Yes, 14-year-olds do all kinds of dumb things (I have one at home.) And a week ago, on the anniversary of 9/11, a 14-year-old on her high school campus thought it would be a fun prank to call 9/11 on his cell phone (what a brainiac; he's no Ahmed...) and tell the dispatcher that he knew of a gun on campus, calling out every policeman and woman in Plano, along with every news station in the Metroplex. And now, that kid is in juvey.
A former Muslim student of mine is all over FB complaining about Ahmed's treatment and blaming it on his being Muslim. She always complains about how Muslims are treated and has a real chip on her shoulder, most of it coming from how people react to her hijab, which she says she freely chose to wear. One of her FB friends is one of my older daughter's preschool teachers, and she's always going off about how Muslims are treated, too. It kind of makes me wonder if any of that rhetoric was ever part of her teachings? My daughters, growing up in Plano, are exposed to so many different ethnicities and religions that they really don't think differences are strange at all; they do find them interesting. We can't say that for everyone, though.
I'd rather meet the President, and you can insert whatever president's name it wouldn't matter. I'd like to give the Prez a piece of my mind. What's the point of meeting whoever the 2 dancing with the Stars people are?
Don't laugh. I, along with others from my District, went to a "bomb training" for 3 days last year. On a "Crisis Mgt Team" our District has. There were 12 of us and the rest were a room full of State Troopers, Sheriff Deputies and local members of surrounding police departments. If there's a bomb threat at any given school in our District I am called out. I straight up told them I'd gladly help with crowd control, transportation, etc. but I'm not going snoop around for a bomb. I was told by a supervisor that the cops wouldn't clear the building. I told him I'm a educator not a SWAT team member.
