Posted on 09/21/2015 11:11:22 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
Even a broken clock like Bill Maher (pun intended) can be right twice a day...
Maher points out that people thought Ahmed Mohamed's clock was mistaken for a bomb because it looks like a bomb. Of course he's right.
When I was in high school there was an incident with a "bomb" in the boys locker room. Someone was rumored to have made an explosive device using a tennis ball with matches and some other stuff (I don't remember what) packed into it.
That was before 9-11. With materials way more innocuous than what Ahmed had on him.
I know liberals want to pretend that the war on terror is really hard *sad face* because we don't know who the enemy is. Then when you point out the common denominator liberals call you a racist (because it's just not possible that they're idiots). Even then, there are certain things we simply have to look out for now...like briefcases full of wires...REGARDLESS of WHO built it.
If Ahmed Mohamed wanted to build suspicious looking crap and not be bothered about it he should've done it in a blue state with minds so open he couldn't blow brains out because the pervading liberalism of the state would've left him with none to begin with.
So now, with offers pouring in all over the place, this kid has pick of the education litter. That's his omelette I guess. Meanwhile conspiracy theories abound as to whether this was some orchestrated dress rehearsal for something more sinister.
I don't think so, if that was the case it wouldn't be tried in Texas where people aren't the type to ask questions first. I think this is just a kid who exercised poor judgement because that's what teenagers and leftists who never intellectually grow up do.
Meanwhile, smarmy liberal keyboard warriors everywhere have seized on yet another opportunity to show the world how awesome they know themselves to be by rushing to this kid's defense. They do it behind the luxury of their screens, having been nowhere near the school, or having any loved ones in the school. They blindly rush to this kids defense because they have no skin in that game.
They get to do the blogging equivalent of crapping on the teachers and officials of the school without having an iota know knowledge, much less the desire to understand, what it's like to be charged with educating AND protecting other people's kids from threats, perceived and otherwise, all day every day.
Those things are irrelevant to a liberal who dare not pass up an opportunity for others to bask in the glow of their magnanimous self-aggrandizement on behalf of a group that otherwise-rational people would vote "most likely to jihad."
Ahmed learned a hard lesson, and I know liberals don't give a damn about the "what if" of it having been a bomb after all...but if pop tart guns get suspensions and a butter knife warrants expulsion, their "omniscience" being offended shouldn't be enough to stop future kids wielding a briefcase full of wires from being met with scrutiny in schools, or anywhere else.
But don’t bite a pop-tart in the shape of a gun.
Now THAT’S scary.
Progressives don’t think. They emote.
re: “glow of their magnanimous self-aggrandizement on behalf of a group that otherwise-rational people would vote “most likely to jihad.”
great use of words
When the story first broke, I thought that this was something he’d make reading a schematic and buying resistors and diodes and LEDs and soldering it together. I did things like that when I was his age, I made a metal detector as an Electronics class project. I was inclined at first to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Then it comes out that he just disassembled a commercially-produced digital clock and repackaged it into the pencil case. What was achieved by that from a technical perspective? Zero. Then it comes out that his dad is an ‘anti-Islamophobia activist’. Ahh- I see what’s going on here. Provoke a response, re-sell it to the willing media as an overreaction by bigots, laugh all the way to the bank.
Moral narcissism is the basis of feel-good liberalism. It’s curable only through repeated reality muggings.
But of course, the teacher and the school are all just nasty racists who don't like to see minority kids succeed. Yes indeed, they're trying to destroy the imaginations and dreams of these poor, poor minority children...some who bring objects that look like bombs to school.
But, Ahmed DID make, or possess a fully-functioning DETONATOR. The alarm triggered in his backpack. That point must also be emphasized.
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