"When a seemingly possessed projector kept shutting off midlecture, young boys’ snickers surrounded Ahmed’s desk, where he sat with a hand-built remote control in his lap.
Talkative to a point of disruption to class, Ahmed...
"...tried to get out of detention by reciting the First Amendment in the principal’s office. “That was genius, son,” Kubiak recalled saying sarcastically. “What did she do?” “He said, ‘She gave me Saturday detention.’” Detention wasn’t the worst of it. While his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts.Ahmed said he was suspended for several weeks in sixth grade. A family friend, Anthony Bond, said the boy and a cousin were blowing soap bubbles in the bathroom, and the school overreacted.
"Ahmed blamed an administrator at the school who, Bond wrote, the boy felt “has been terrorizing him since the 6th grade” — hindering him from praying in school and unfairly punishing him." ... "Bond’s letter called the boy’s treatment “Muslim bashing”
"Bertha Whatley, who was Irving ISD’s attorney last year, said “high-level” officials at the district reviewed Bond’s letter. Bond said the principal overturned the suspension after meeting with Ahmed".
"...“I told you one day I’m going to be — and you told me yourself — I’m going to be really big on the Internet one day,” Ahmed said."
******
*****Not only did the kid NOT invent a clock,[see this clip with Bill Mahr] during which he equates Ahmed’s invention with “bowl of cereal”:
... essentially "Clockmed" (apropos identity coined by Atlas) went "fishing" using his "bowl of cereal"/”invention” as bait moving from class to class until one of his teachers finally took his bait. The first teacher simply requested he put the 'invention' away and not take it out during school time. Clockmed was fully aware of the fact that his ‘invention’ looked suspicious:
“I closed [the ‘clock’] with a cable, I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat … so it won’t look that much suspicious.”
Instead of taking this instructors advice, this kid decided to plug in his 'clock invention' ensuring the alarm would sound off to obtain the attention he sought during class time.
Having achieved the sought after one-on-one attention, he’s suddenly traumatized by the fact that faculty was not enamored with his 'invention', rather they were concerned and annoyed, particularly when the kid refused to cooperate and respond to inquiry by various authority figures.
In fact, the kids family refused to respond to authority figures as well as refuse to sign a release form. Instead of appearing at the appointments to meet with school and police which were rescheduled to accommodate the family’s request, ...the kids family decided to hold a press conference in front of their home exactly at the appointed and agreed upon times they were supposed to be meeting with school & police.
Family members including the kid and his sister had no hindrances elaborating and voluntarily answering questions posed by the fawning and sympathetic media.
In fact, several subsequent media interviews provide damning details given by clockmed AND his sister which reveal prior instances of disciplinary action for similar terror related misconduct...all related while smiling at the cameras which are recording journalist reports about accolades and valuable gifts and scholarship offers to NASA’s Space Camp, invitations to drive NASA’s Opportunity Rover, tour MIT, intern at Twitter etc. etc. all lavished on this kid by celebrities like Dr. Oz, Ellen DeGenerous, network and cable news shows, Twitter, Google, NASA, and even from the current-occupant-of-the-oval-office (whose twitter admiration arrived before any of the details of this incident hit the media).
For instance:
"After the MSNBC segment, Eyman and I sit down in the hallway where she says the same thing happened to her as Ahmed. “I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with.” Eyman talks with the slightest lisp, almost imperceptible, but it becomes stronger as she gets emotional. “I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous, I’m kinda like—it’s like he’s standing for me.” Eyman said her suspension was in her first year of middle school, “my first year of attempting middle school in America. I knew English, but the culture was different, the people were different.”Now, after all is said and done...
Clockmed was not “handcuffed” at school. The only reason his classmates and student population are aware of his notoriety is because he was guided by those he trusted most to go to the media. The fact that clockmed refused to be forthcoming with details to the authorities resulted in self inflicted trauma.
Then talk about CHUTZPAH!
yet...
Despite this: via CNN: "Irving police had held onto the clock as evidence, but on Thursday, they told CNN that it's ready for Ahmed to pick it up." (last week)
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WHO KNEW?! Ahmed is entitled to disrupt class at will – it’s his ‘right’!
*****Here’s an interesting video clip to ponder:
LIVELEAK video of "ALI VELSHI ON TARGET"
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ff 0:10 Ali Vleshi: "...when you introduced your clock in your earlier classes the teachers liked it. . .it wasn't until you introduced it in a later class that a teacher felt that your digital clock was suspicious and said to put the clock away.
0:22 Ahmed: "...so um, I brought my clock to school and my teacher thought that it was a threat to her because in her eyes it looked suspicious. So, the clock, in fact, is built from scrap, scrap found around the house, some of the boards are already manufactured, yes, it was put together.
0:43 Ali Vleshi: "...so, what happened? Did the teacher ask you to put it away or what happened then?
0:46 Ahmed: "...um, the teacher – the clock, in fact, was plugged in during the classroom, so it didn't go off in my backpack. So, it was plugged in and I set a time on there and I showed it to a student sitting next to me." And it went off, so the teacher looked around and said 'what was that noise?' and I just unplugged it immediately."
01:13 Ali Vleshi: "...and then what happened? When did they call the security people at the school?
01:19 Ahmed: "...um, the security people were called around sixth period. Well, that's when I got called out of class. But, after the students left the classroom I did show my teacher the clock and I showed it to her and that's when she took, confiscated that from me.
01:35 Ali Vleshi: "...now is that the particular teacher that you wanted to impress? Was that your engineering teacher or was that a different teacher?
01:41 Ahmed: "...that was my, a different teacher, but I wanted to impress ALL of my teachers."
01:45 Ali Vleshi: "...and most of them, were they impressed?"
01:49 Ahmed: "...um, no, I only got to show two teachers because the rest of the day I didn't get to stay at school. (watch traumatized Ahmed grin broadly and glance over to his left)
01:54 Ali Vleshi: "...ah, no kidding. So, the security people called you in, then what happens? They look at this clock and they determine that it's a clock. At any point tell you that maybe it was a bomb or did they talk to you about whether it was a bomb?
02:09 Ahmed: "...um, yes they did talk to me whether it was a bomb. They looked at me and they were like 'what is that' and I told them that it was a clock. And they kept asking me that question. You're like 'it doesn't look like a bomb to me.' In face, oh, sorry, 'it doesn't look like a clock to me', one officer said. And when I told the other officer - one of the other officers told me, 'looks like a movie bomb', so he told me 'do you watch movies at home?' Of course, I told him 'yes'. And (he squirms) he told me, 'that looks like a movie bomb to me' and 'did you try to copy the bomb from the movie?' I told him, 'no, officer, I didn't.'
02:42 Ali Vlashi: "...amd then, I saw a picture of you with handcuffs. How did that happen?
02:46 Ahmed: "...um, I was detained later at school and then taken to the police station to where I was handcuffed.
02:56 Ali Vlashi: "...even though they had determined that it wasn't a bomb, that the decided it wasn't a bomb.
03:01 Ahmed: "...yes.
03:02 Ali Vlashi: "...so you say you felt like a terrorist and that wasn't the first time that you had felt that way. That struck me as pretty strong. You're a fourteen year old kid. How come you've been made to feel you're a terrorist?
03:14 Ahmed: "...well, in middle school it was a rough journey for me too. Sixth grade year, one of the students says "Osama bin Laden your uncle, why did he kill those people on 9/11?". I told him he wasn't my uncle. So, that really got to me and I really did feel like a terrorist.
03:31 Ali Vlashi: "...Wow. What, where, whe...let me ask you, where is this clock now? Have the police given it back to you?
03:37 Ahmed: "...um, no. It's still with the police.
03:39 Ali Vlashi: "...the Irving police chief said that you weren't forthcoming with information about your digital clock and that's partly why they took you into custody. Do have any reason why they...do you have any sense of why they think so? You seem like a talkative kid. Do you, do you....why would they say you weren't forthcoming?
03:55 Ahmed: "...um, I was forthcoming but I did tell the officers there was a clock multiple times and I told why about school. I told them all the questions they asked me so, I don't know why they said I wasn't forthcoming but yeah I did tell them the questions they asked me.
04:12 Ali Vlashi: "...uh, no charges were laid against you. I think that's important to - for everybody to know. And I'm sure you're very very relieved because of the whole thing. You want to proceed with a career moving toward engineering? Do you want to stay at your school?
04:26 Ahmed: "...I want to pursue engineer, a career in engineering.
04:33 Ali Vlashi: "...and are you o.k. going back to your school?
04:37 Ahmed: "...um, no, I uh, I'm not o.k. going back to my school cuz it's really - it didn't really feel good that what happened there. I don't want to go back to that.
04:45 Ali Vlashi: "...is there something they can do that will make you feel better - the school, or the mayor, or the police?
04:49 Ahmed: "...I mean, no. They could apoligize but that's not gonna change anything because what was done was done.
I share your concerns and disgust about how the media has and likely will continue to misrepresent the truth in this case.
We all “know,” after all, what the media immediately concluded - that he was profiled and targeted for being Muslim (case closed).
Despite stories like these, the synopsis of the story has been set by the media at large, and they are likely to permanently maintain it no matter the outcomes of any legal actions in the case, and no matter what information comes out in the future.
I posted here yesterday a suggestion to contact the media and advertisers next week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, calling them out on just such things.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3341552/posts
It’s not a coordinated effort but if a number of people would contact them around the same time, that would be a good start towards reigning in a good part of their undue influence. They’ve gone beyond their usual bias of the past to frame stories completely dishonestly, without any true and even-handed investigation of the facts, because they’re following cases of “online outrage” through Twitter trends. They purposely piggyback on social media because it provides them cover and a rationale for their biased reporting (”just reporting on an injustice which many people are outraged about”), and they’re happy to do so since they know due to the relatively low knowledge and age of Twitter users versus the rest of the population, the “outrages” are likely to have a extremely liberal bent.
But I’m sure there are a great many Americans out there, that if someone like Ted Cruz or Donald Trump would just stand up and say that the media is jumping to conclusions and rushing to judgment, and we have to get all the facts before deciding who was right and who was wrong, rather than just following some opinions on social media, that it would strike a chord with them, just as Trump’s comments did on immigration. Everything the media is doing in their rushing to judgment and making Muslims out as unassailable and any concerns of possible Muslim terrorism to be bigotry (was this kid ever interrogated for just being a Muslim in school before he brought an unassigned project to school that resembled a bomb?) goes against everything most Americans have been taught and believe about doing proper and fair investigations. It smacks of pushing agendas at the expense of truth and real justice, but the problem is most people don’t have a voice to compete with Twitter, which skews very young, and you don’t have to offer any analysis of anything, but simply offer a one-liner judgment.
We need politicians not cowering to Twitter, but speaking out. This is actually a sure thing, because the Twitter effect seems to be about more generational divide than even a party and ideology issue. Liberals are reflexively defending these Twitter driven stories despite all evidence because once they make the mainstream news (who pick them up because they love controversies) they have to “defend their narratives.” But there’s no doubt that many liberals closer to the stories are concerned about being caught up in a Twitter driven controversy. Many liberal teachers and administrators have to wonder if they might be pilloried next, for just about anything. There was the case of school lunch lady Della Cox, who was fired for supposedly feeding poor kids. The media ran with it worldwide, on only her word and the school being unable to respond in kind. It asked Curry for permission to do so, and she refused. The school could only say that she was not fired for giving food to poor kids. The elementary school got threats. This was the supposed injustice:
Her focus now, Curry said, is on lobbying local school boards and lawmakers to change the law so every student gets a complete meal — hot entree, fruit or vegetables and milk — regardless of ability to pay.
Cherry Creek’s policy now is to give students (my note: students not poor enough to qualify for free lunches) lunch the first three times they forget their money and charge their parents’ accounts. On the fourth time, the student gets either a cheese, chicken or turkey sandwich and carton of milk.
Curry said that sparse meal is her chief concern.
“That’s not lunch, that’s not even a snack,” she said.
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/extra-security-school-aurora-lunch-lady-canned/
I hope we will work on calling out the media on things like this, things so obvious that most Americans will immediately recognize their truth, and getting politicians to not fear Twitter (it’s a straw dragon) but reasonably speak out against it. Most Americans could get behind the statement that we have exercise caution about Twitter and not unskeptically believe that Twitter trends tell the whole story.
His sister had also been suspended for supposedly claiming she was going to blow up the school. She wears a hijab while whining about America culture doesn’t jive with hers.
Clocks, remote controls and cell phones. Naw, those don’t have anything to do with bombs. Move along.
Interesting how all these muslim visa holders from 9/11 to clock boy have ambitions of becoming engineers. All the kid needs is to get his pilot’s license. Of course, hussein invited him to the WH. He’ll probably gift obl, jr. with some extra special ingredients to complete his “clock”.
And his father keeps running for the presidency of the country they came from. Sudan?