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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, Builds Clock, Is Cuffed for Bomb Hoax, and Ends Up Invited to White House
NY Times ^ | SEPT. 16, 2015 | PETER BAKER and CHRISTINE HAUSER

Posted on 09/16/2015 3:14:15 PM PDT by TroutStalker

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To: Darksheare
the media bending over backwards to excuse this away is interesting.

The people on Free Republic bending over backwards to excuse this away is frightening.

241 posted on 09/17/2015 3:45:38 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: discostu

This was the comic book version. They smart when your life in their hands - well lets say deadly.


242 posted on 09/17/2015 5:48:27 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: ladyjane

They forgot 9/11 2001, the foot bomber, the underwear bomber, etc etc.


243 posted on 09/17/2015 5:55:50 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: TroutStalker

Mayday! Mayday! Deport! Deport!


244 posted on 09/18/2015 1:25:22 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Darksheare

“This was a test to see what they can get away with.”

Heartening to know the excuse-making, and turning of blind eyes went all the way up to the Oval Orifice, eh?

Yeah, so the arrest was over-the-top, but some time with local LEO discussing cultural relevance, and the stupidity of bringing bomb-lookin’ thingies to a public school, and then LYING about them when asked direct questions...DEFINITELY. Everyone’s got the potential to do mostly harmless, if not exactly smart things, and ending up with an arrest record and in the Federal pen isn’t “the answer.” There’s one stunt I pulled in 1983 with a buddy at my H.S.; done today it’d have got me in a heap o’crap with Homeland Security. So, there’s that factor in this equation, too.

And his jewel of a father...WHEW! What a rotting codfish HE is! Makes you wonder if this whole blow-it-off exercise is to keep him chill so he won’t get antsy, and run off where Federal eyes would have a hard time tracking him.


245 posted on 09/18/2015 4:19:40 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

This stunt probably was pulled to make a smokescreen.
The authorities likely will avoid him now.


246 posted on 09/18/2015 7:50:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare; discostu; caww
... AND you don’t put it in a suitcase, bring it to school, plug it in, AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT AS IT BUZZES.

If you were "prepping" your school to accept something as "normal", then you certainly would:

1. Setup such a device.

2. Bring it to school.

3. Plug it in and "Show" it to the Teacher, and assure Him/Her that you were sensitive to the fact that you didn't want to make it look like a bomb.

4. Don't answer queries about it because your Daddy didn't/couldn't prepare you for an Adult's queries, so suggested to just be "evasive".

5. Disregard directions to put it away until you could take it home, and instead, show it around school so as may people as possible would see you and your "clock" as just a part of school "scenery".

6. Once normalcy of you carrying around your "clock" was reached, it would be simple to actually carry a fully armed "clock" anywhere into the school (say the quad during lunchtime).

If anyone doesn't believe that a 14 year old Moslem wouldn't blow himself (and as many others as possible) up, hasn't been paying attention.

He would be an instant Martyr in the Moslem world.

I fear something very bad is coming to America, and a school full of kids is one of the likely places where it will arrive.

I give discostu the benefit of the doubt, but I don't believe he fully realizes that America's enemies are within our border, that they are relentless, and that they will fully take advantage of our laws and good nature, and sacrifice their children, to destroy us.

247 posted on 09/20/2015 7:03:45 AM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: Col Freeper

You don’t answer questions because:
A - only idiots answer questions from the police without their lawyer present
B - he’s a teenager.

Meanwhile it is obviously a clock. And EVERYBODY knew that. If anybody thought it was a bomb then why didn’t they evacuate? And he’s leaving the school, so the idea that he was “prepping” them has just been proven ridiculous.


248 posted on 09/20/2015 7:35:04 AM PDT by discostu (dream big and dance a lot)
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