Only by those that are assuming he had ‘evil intent’ and a ‘master plan’ - the evidence/statements we have so far do not support that.
The default assumption in US law is ‘innocent’ - you are presuming guilty, and having to go to elaborate lengths to ‘make your case’.
Absent any evidence to the contrary - he simply ‘built’ a clock and there was no ill intent in his taking it to school .
Your assumptions to the opposite and ‘grand schemes’ do not make a case - “could” he have planned to do something? it is a possibility - but one for which there is ZERO evidence at this point (even in past behaviour).
Eh, I think for me it’s more that I don’t see Ahmed as being capable of making such dumb choices. I’m willing to give him way more credit than you are, it seems, and in doing so it gives the school more credit as well.
Further to the above posts, I concede that one of is us multiplying entities needlessly.
And–hang on, let me double-check–yeah, it’s you.
I’m not saying your hypothesis is incorrect. Just that it’s not supported by the facts, and that Occam’s knife obviates it.
Good post. But since it’s fact based, it probably won’t make any difference at all. If this was about the facts, and fighting ignorance, it would be a different thread.
I would hope not, because that would make the POTUS look like an idiot. And an idiot that doesn’t check with all the really smart and scientific experts that we like to think he has surrounded himself with.
Does he still think it’ a cool clock? Twitter lets people make fools of themselves faster than even the media used to be able to do.
Doesn’t this just boil down to spineless nitwits who can’t think for themselves? The teacher kicked it upstairs to the principal who in turn called the cops. The cops probably would have called Homeland Security if they knew how. In a rational world, the cops would have gotten pissed at the school for wasting their time.
Because, as a clock, it fulfills its function. It has a numerical display of digits that represent the actual time, which (one assumes) progress as the rate of one-to-one with the actual passage of time. If the case is non-optimal, meh, whattya gonna do? I bought a clock recently that was so poorly designed that it used a wall-wart for power, but the plug kept falling out at the slightest bump. THAT was a useless clock!
As for looking like a bomb, it does not. This or this is what a fake bomb clock looks like. Coiled wires going to detonators, and something that looks like actual explosives. (And something I’d NEVER own, especially if I had enemies. it would be the height of ironic stupidity if someone wanting to kill me replaced my fake dynamite with the real thing!)
Your % are based on nothing but intuition, though – nothing about what actually happened. I don’t see why that would be convincing to anyone who doesn’t already have such a gut feeling or something.
It’s fine if people don’t find it convincing. I’d be happy to see people just not dismiss it out of hand, which deep down is where I think a lot of people have already shifted even if they don’t want to say so (the human desire to appear consistent is very stubborn).
I wish I had thought of putting an old clock in a mini briefcase, then getting busted for having it at school.
Did you see all the cool shit people gave him? Even the prez tweeted that shit out. I give the kid high marks for thinking ahead, and he sure has impressed his teachers at this point.
He’s going to MIT, the White House, who knows how far he will go. And they told us building a fake bomb never did anything to make the world a better place.
No, in the real world, a clock isn’t hidden inside a case, a case that you have to open to even see the clock, and then you have to plug it in somewhere.
Shoving the guts of an old clock into a pencil case, drilling as hole and splicing the plug through the hole, isn’t much of an invention. Unless the real invention was profit.
Without any evidence for it, I dismiss it out of hand. Sure, it’s possible. But a lot of things are possible. Without evidence, this is just a wild guess at, essentially, an extremely minor conspiracy theory.
