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And now, because of the over-reaction, if this was all intended, instead of just being some geeky teenage fiddling with low-grade consumer electronics -- which is still strongly possible is all it was --- the kid goes to the White House, and momentum is gained against 'profiling' of Islamics, which profiling is the very thing which you say you support.
Congratulations. If this was deliberate, they played you for a fool, and had you knee-jerk reacting just like they would have wanted, causing you to shoot your own cause (which I have some amount of sympathy for) right in the foot!
Pry the ice cream cone off your forehead, before posting, and I'll stop thinking of you as developmentally disabled, as for this single 'story' in the news cycle. We've got to be smarter, more cunning than our adversaries.
Never do what the adversary WANTS one to do. Or at least -- do it in a way he won't like, or be able to take advantage of.
I seriously doubt that you realize that you've dug the hole you were in, even deeper...

xactly

LOoks like this wasn't a genuine science/engineering project. but an "art project" designed to demostrate what a bunch of gullible nervous nellies Murricans are.

Mission accomplished!

...what a bunch of gullible nervous nellies Murricans are.

It's so very good to have an Australian critique the United States of America. /s

For the record, we are AMERICANS not "Murricans", a term of disdain favored by the left.

If it was a science project, I get the impression it wasn't one which was assigned.

It was more like the kid was trying to show off, that he could figure out how to rig a power supply and possibly & needed transformer to the inner workings of a consumer electronics digital clock, which for whatever reason he decided would fit well in a metal pencil box he likely had laying around.

He was a little weird about it all, but then the kid likely is a little bit weird, naturally.

Or else it was all a big set-up, deliberately.

I'm not convinced of that.

But if it was, then the North American Imans Federation got what they were aiming for, instead of this being just something of an organic accident which broke in their favor.