Tsk tsk tsk, adaher. Very, very lazy posting. You could have spent 30 seconds finding out if the school was actually evacuated, but you chose not too. A very common mistake, of the sort for which I have chided you many, many times on this board. Any chance you can learn from it this time?
He’s not lazy. He just wants to live in a world where he’s right, so he creates one for himself. Unfortunately, we’re all involuntary bit players in it.
So to sum up:
If they genuinely thought it could potentially be a bomb, they acted recklessly and endangered the lives of everyone in the school.
If they genuinely didn’t think it was a bomb, then there was no need to call the police and they overreacted for reasons one can only speculate on.
In either case they demonstrated spectacular incompetence at the very least, which was not Ahmed’s doing in any way.
Not exactly. If they thought that it was not a bomb, but looked like it could be a bomb, then it was a hoax bomb under Texas law. Yes, even if their only argument is “wires + clock display + ‘suitcase’ = bomb”. If they could then show that Ahmed had intended it to look like a bomb to scare people then he would have broken the law.
Of course, every time he described the device prior to being arrested (two teachers and another student) he called it a clock. And by questioning him without his parents present, they broke the law. Not that anyone’s keeping score or anything.
I just don’t see it.
The first cite is a hit piece that can’t go two lines without sneering at somebody, and all I got out of it is that the author detests Dawkins and Maher – not just their opinions, but personally.
The wiki cite seems to show that he’s doing the opposite of ranting; he’s stating facts. That some people, Muslim or not, think it’s better to remain silent than to state unpleasant facts is not his problem. Of course, it would be fair to say that the distribution of Nobel Prizes by a Scandinavian selection panel doesn’t prove anything about Muslim science. But it would be also fair to say that although the lack of Nobels doesn’t prove anything, the lack of significant technological or scientific innovation in the last few centuries proves quite a lot. And he did give credit for their Middle Ages achievements.
The third cite is the most apt, but I still don’t see any rants. Maybe I’m biased the same way he is, because I’m also an atheist who has no more use for Christianity than for Islam, but who can plainly see that, at least in the 21st century, Christian society is infinitely preferable. It’s ironic that the reason it’s preferable is that Christians feel free to ignore major swaths of their Holy Scriptures, which are every bit as barbaric as those of Islam, but I’ll take what I can get.
Not only did they not evacuate the school, they allowed Ahmed to continue to attend classes for several periods before they decided to call the police to interrogate him. The entire school day continued with no disruption except the removal (finally) of Ahmed from a later class.
Why are you commenting on this when you appear to have no actual grasp of the plain facts involved?
I’ve heard that the school was evacuated. I heard that here. From adaher.
Well, that settles it.
And now I’ve heard it from you. So we have 3 confirmations. It must be true.
The school was evacuated but the Islamo-Jewish-controlled Lame-Stream Media has suppressed that fact. Just ask Ben Carson or Donald Trump, or Sean Hannity.
We have a dramatically different idea of what constitutes raving. To me he seems at worst kind of snippy.
There were thousands of people in Jersey City cheering the kid on for having brought that fake bomb to school, doncha know.
They evacuated the school at 3:30 p.m., except for on-site emergency responders like band practice.
Sorry, I misunderstood what Sitnam said. I thought he said the school had been evacuated.
It’s a recurring problem. Why not just check before you post basic facts, especially when you start with “of course…”? It’s happened many times before, and with just a tiny bit of effort, you could make sure it never happens again. Wouldn’t you like to get rid of this reputation?
Agreed. I wrote a FB post discussing how gutting PGP encryption would put the medical profession back into 1985, with faxes going everywhere for EVERY SINGLE interaction. We might as well bring back OCR scanners for paper claims while we’re at it.
And that’s just the medical profession.
I don’t even want to contemplate “back doors in encryption” for BANKING, FFS. Or the military.
Reminds me of the old observation “Frequently wrong, but never uncertain.”
You should be. This thread sucks.
Tell me about it. Has the OP, in the entire history of this thread, contributed more than two or three potential ‘stupid liberal ideas’? As far as I can tell, his min contributions have been to show up every couple months, hurl a drive-by insult or tow, then disappear again.
Well past time to put this one to bed, methinks.