Posted on 11/24/2015 7:28:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Remember "clock boy," the bespectacled Texas adolescent who proudly brought a disassembled pre-digital era Radio Shack (remember them?) clock to school and showed it to his teacher? Cultural misunderstanding followed. Supposedly.
In the post-September 11 but pre-Paris, pre-Mali (remember that?) era, the teacher was concerned because the clock was packed in a briefcase with wires dangling from it. Could it be a bomb on a timer? The student's name was Ahmed Mohamed. The boy's father was a local agitator. And so the teacher said something, dutifully reporting his suspicions to the police. The police questioned the student, receiving evasive answers. More cultural misunderstanding followed. Also, publicity followed.
Some decried this as an example of racism, dreaded Islamophobia, and other politically incorrect, evil insensitivities. President Barack Hussein Obama (D) invited the boy to the White House, decrying the suspicions cast on the supposedly innocent student merely because of his name, skin color, and religious/ethnic background. Cultural understanding followed as the boy's father announced that the family was moving to the Muslim-dominated country of Qatar.
But more American cultural understanding followed from the family. The boy's family announced that it is demanding $10 million from the city of Irving, Texas plus an additional $5 million from the Irving School District for damages or the family will sue.
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Is Kyle’s Dad his lawyer?
Sue and be damned.
If we had a REAL American President, we would deliver the legal response in behalf of the Irving Texas school board via drone strike.
Maybe this lawsuit will allow scrutiny of Clock Boy’s actual technical achievement, or lack thereof, and what his motives really were. Agitator Dad’s motives and history should also be examined more closely. These scumbags set this up to stir the pot. Let them now be boiled in it.
I wrote an original post on exactly this topic on my Facebook page two days ago, and some libtards I know bombarded me with racism hooey, and completely ignored the facts - as libs always do.
Sorry you were inconvenienced. Here’s a dollar.
Little Precious’ mommy and daddy are looking for a big payday at the expense of taxpayers.
moslem hostility and exploitation of others can be passive-aggressive just as easily as a bomb.
As soon as they sue, they will be subject to extensive discovery. Their depositions will be taken under oath, and they will be required to answer interrogatories and identify and turn over documents.
They are hoping for a quick settlement, because their documents will not stand scrutiny. Here's hoping the city and school district paraphrase the Duke of Wellington and tell them, "Sue and be damned!"
The publicity stunt continues with a frivolous lawsuit. More headlines follow.
This is a shakedown. The attorney, his clients, and their behind the scenes handlers hope the school system and city government will quickly settle out of court for a few million dollars.
Hopefully the local government and school system will go to the mat and force a trial. It is hard to envision a Texas jury doing anything except laughing the plaintiffs out of court. Perhaps in addition to a not guilty verdict from the jury the judge will admonish the plaintiffs and their attorney for filing a frivolous lawsuit. With that, a petition to disbar or discipline the lawyer would be in order. Until we the people and our representatives start corralling the attorneys and their cartel (ABA), this nonsense will continue.
Let them sue, where can they find a jury in America that will all vote for them?
Allah Clockbar!!!
If I were a member of that jury that kids family would get zip and have to pay for the court cost as well as legal fees for the town.
This incident was created for one reason.That reason was too intimidate the public into not reporting criminal activity of these Muslim activist /potential terrorist.
It’s hard to commit a terrorist attack if your being observed while your planning it.
Schools have been expelling kids for drawing lines on a paper that are interpreted as a “gun.” Putting baking soda together with vinegar produces a bubbly mess, which schools have branded as a “bomb.”
The school reacted stupidly with this kid, as they do with all other kids.
The only reason why this kid is being treated differently is because he’s a mozlim. None other. Since others in his group have been murdering humans nonstop for years, his group aquired special privileges.
He deserves nothing.
But only if they are White Christians.
Last night, I heard the male relative still here in Texas, say, the family misses being in Texas. Tough cookies, they were ecstatic with joy when they left Texas for Muslim Qatar.
I followed this case since it happened not far from me. Heard engineer types, after studying the set up in that pencil box, say, it was a certain clock, gave the company name, model, and the year it was made, that he took out of the case and put it in that box.
If you see something, say something, happened to us a few weeks ago. We were coming home in the car and turned into our subdivision going in the back way. When we turned onto this road, there was a cop car with the door open and no cop inside, and his colored lights were turned on. In front of him was a car with the door open and no one inside. To us, it appeared the cop must be chasing the driver since no one was there. That road runs past the police department several miles from where we were.
We went straight to the police department but it was late night and the door was locked. We called them and explained what we saw and the policewoman said they had not had a call from a cop on that road, so they were sending a car there. When we left, still on that road, we saw a cop car pass us heading that way. We wonder if that cop was in trouble but we won’t know what happened. We had to do something because it didn’t look right.
Damages? This incident got the kid turned into an international liberal idol, got him a visit to the White House, potential offers from prestigious universities, and “atta-boy” calls from prominent hi-tech tycoons.
NO. Not a penny, no settlement, nothing.
Any Irving bureaucrat suggesting otherwise needs to be fired ASAP. This is a shakedown built on a scam. It is morally and ethically wrong to make taxpayers pay anything at all.
You have to wonder if this wasn’t the purpose of the incident from the very start - send junior to school with a suspicious looking item, provoke a reaction from school officials who’ve been told “see something/say something” for the last ten years, and sue big-time for damages. It looks like a classic shakedown.
RE: Tough cookies, they were ecstatic with joy when they left Texas for Muslim Qatar.
Hmmm... Muslim family preferring Texas to a Muslim country? I wonder why that is... NOT.
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