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.
Re_nortex, you keep saying things as if they are facts, but without attribution.
Where does it say the kid is not an American?
Gee...I wore a cross and carried Mark Levin’s book “Plunder and Deceit” in my carry on. I received a thorough review and invasive screening and this person with the clock that looks and acts as a bomb is invited to the White House? What the hell?