Supposedly, the device started beeping during English class, and the teacher freaked out when the kid went to shut it off. Is that planned defiance or an accident?
I can't imagine someone who teaches English being skilled enough to readily identify a device like that shown in the photos.
Well said! I always hated English class!
But the overarching point remains that adherents to islam should not be given the same treatment as Americans. I unabashedly favor a double standard and fully support profiling.
The overarching point is that Irving overreacted. Whether the kid is innocent or a Mooselimb provocateur, the fact is, Irving bought it! Hook, line, and sinker! And now Zero is making the most of it!
Nobody smarter than an English teacher (which is to say 90%+ of the general population) should be alarmed by circuit boards and LED displays in the hands of an engineer wannabe kid.
I'll grant you that the alarm bells of an English or Bible teacher (or any non-engineering field) would not go off in their head for an "engineer wannabe kid". But when muzzie is added to the description, it becomes a different matter entirely. One of the few (only?) things that Jesse Jackson ever got right was this famous quote:
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
I apply that same line of thinking to the muzzie population in our Republic. In the specific case of the device brought to school, had the tinkerer been American, I think there may have been -- at most -- a momentary sense of befuddlement. With a muzzie, it's a different story.
As I mentioned to antceecee (whom I've pinged as a courtesy), I generally breeze though the TSA screening at D/FW. But it does gratify me and give me some measure of hope, when I see them taking more time with an individual who has a muzzie look. Profiling is discrimination and discrimination is discernment.
I think, as does the (gorgeous -- gratuitous but you HAVE seen her?) Irving mayor, that the ISD and PD behaved competently and quite responsibly in this matter. Rush Limbaugh and Pamela Geller concur.