A Texas teen gets arrested over a homemade digital clock. Social media erupts.
#IStandWithAhmed has been trending for hours on Twitter, with over 50,000 tweets exchanged so far, largely in support of the 14-year-old, who lives with his family in the Dallas suburbs.
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Here’s the story that has spread around the globe: High-school freshman Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday after bringing a homemade digital clock to MacArthur High. To make a long story short, a teacher at the Irving, Texas, school freaked out, thinking the clock looked more like a bomb, resulting in a call to police, reported the Dallas Morning News.
The youth was taken to a juvenile detention facility in handcuffs and has been suspended from school. Police reportedly may charge him with making a hoax bomb.
Ahmed, who is reported to be something of a technical genius, wanted to wow his teachers. It took him 20 minutes to rig up the clock, using only a circuit board and power supply hooked to a digital display. His engineering teacher was the first to see it, and — perhaps sensing trouble — advised him to keep it under wraps. But the gadget kept beeping.
The 14-year-old recounts what happened in a video interview with the Morning News:
At the detention center, Ahmed was searched and fingerprinted, he said, and then awaited his parents’ arrival. “It made me feel like I wasn’t a human, like I was a criminal,” he said.
Among the many attention-grabbing tweets was one featuring a hastily shot photo of what is said to be Ahmed‘s departure from the school in cuffs:
Lawyers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with Ahmed and his parents, reportedly were due to meet with school officials.
Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, immigrated to the U.S. from Sudan, where returns from time to time to run for president, the Dallas paper reported.
And here’s a portion of a statement that was apparently sent to parents on the heels of the incident (MarketWatch has been unable verify its authenticity):“While we do not have any threats to our school community, we want you to be aware that the Irving Police Department responded to a suspicious-looking item on campus yesterday. We are pleased to report that after the police department’s assessment, the item discovered at school did not pose a threat to your child’s safety.”
The letter is signed “Daniel Cummings, principal.”
Come on, the kid is wearing a fucking NASA shirt. Did they really think he was a terrorist?
I love the “Bitch, are you retarded” look he is giving him. I image it was some fat middle-aged hag with cankles who watches too many crime dramas on television that flipped out and called the cops. I have a strong feeling in was an English teacher.
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To quote the article: ” and has been suspended from school. Police reportedly may charge him with making a hoax bomb.”
We are fucked, totally fucked. The Stasi runs our schools, the Gestapo arrests children, the KGB (the replacement for NSA) gathers information. Get you case ruled on by a kangaroo court with some cunt for a judge.
Doesn’t matter if you vote for Trump / Hillary / Bernie – we’re done.
I am so glad we home schooled.
And another thing: I hope they sue the shit out of the School District, and some violent / feral Neegrow ass rapes the principal.
Why didn’t the engineering teacher step in and stop this bullshit from happening?
Back the kid up, he knew it wasn’t anything dangerous.
Sooooo … teachers, Administrators, and copfuks upon closer examination of the facts could not determine the device was HARMLESS ???
Of course, no one will get fired or even be mocked for being a goddamned stupid dickfuk asshole. They’ll probably get letters of recognition for being so vigilant.
I hope the kid’s parents sue the fuck out of whomever they can and get millions. Which I know is self-defeating because it is the taxpayers who pay the bill.
I saw on local news they are still considering filing a bomb threat charge against him.
Meanwhile, in Texas ………. ACTUAL CRIMINALS get a free ride!!! hahaha, I think Texas is more fucked up than NJ.
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More than a decade ago, the Supreme Court ruled that police have no obligation to ‘protect’ the public. The landmark case dealt with a woman and her estranged husband. The husband kidnapped their children and the woman called police to report the crime. The police never investigated and the man later killed all three kids. (Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales)
A city-commission study found that HPD failed to investigate over 20,000 crimes in 2013 – crimes with ‘workable’ leads. When questioned about the potentially damning figures, Chief McClelland said that the Houston Police Department does not and should not have a goal of aggressively probing every crime reported to it.
Most of the crimes that HPD were too lazy to investigate, dealt with burglaries. However, over 6,000 of those cases were assaults, hit-and-runs, and other violent crimes. Chief McClelland had a response for these numbers as well – “They’re very minor crimes. I don’t want to dismiss that if someone was a victim of crime, but they are.”
Personally, I don’t see how someone violently assaulting you, your spouse, or even your children are ‘minor crimes’. I would care to guess that if a member of Chief McClelland’s family was robbed, assaulted, or was the victim of a hit-and-run, he would have every officer within a 100 miles investigating the crime. I think what the chief meant to say, was that ‘some people aren’t important enough, rich enough, or (dare I say) white enough, for my officers to help’.
I don’t know if I am more embarrassed for the school for racism disguised as terrorist hysteria or the fact “educators” can’t tell the difference between a bomb and a science project.
Flava flav running around with that clock around his neck comes to mind. Do you know what time it is, boyyee? Schools a just too damn dumb to be trying to teach anyone anything these days.
Do not place children in public schools.Teachers are trained in communist indoctrination and propaganda.Poptart anyone?
My son took a homemade model rocket kit to school when he was 14, somebody turned him in.
The Vice Principal, even though proving he knew it harmless by removing it from his locker while classes were still in session and walking it throughout the school before he called in the cops, FBI and bomb squad.
They prosecuted and barred my son from every returning into the school district.
Even thought I felt that the school way overreacted, he did knowingly break the law/rules. The Wayne County juvenile justice office had never seen a parent like me.
They agreed that he should never have been prosecuted, but that he did break the letter of the law (incendiary devices). They were going to give him a slap on the wrist.
I decided to use it to make my kid think twice, or harder, before he did stupid things. I, to the consternation of both ex and son, demanded homeschooling for the remainder of the year (he had already been because of the charges) even though he could have legally returned to another district, I demanded his community service be quadrupled, his probation doubled. I wanted him to think long and freaking hard about ever knowingly challenging our police state again.
The look on the probation officer, and the judge’s faces were priceless.
“Why would you recommend harsher punishment than the juvenile justice program recommends for your son Ms. T?” asks judge.
“Because the hallway outside these chambers are FULL of kids that were let off lightly because it was their first time. I figure if I make my son’s first time as painful as I can, there won’t be a next one.”
“I agree.” Gavel smacked.
The country has been insane for a long, long, time. Between forced morality, and forced diversity, and forced destruction of the productive, exactly what else would we expect would happen?
We have exactly the government, and regulations, that we deserve, and want. You all should feel safer that this criminal innovator and future producer has been put in his place.
Yep, its for the freaking easily butthurt children and their very easily butthurt parents.
A friend is scared to death,afraid about putting her child in public Gestapo school.He is now a toddler and says bang and likes to play superhero.Cops and robbers,good guy and bad guy type of thing.She wants to now homeschool after reading poptart incidents.
Thinking about this more, it’s Marxism at it’s finest.
You can tell he’s a good kid. They don’t like good kids. They get more money and power trying to educate feral neegrows with an 85 IQ’s.
So let’s bring this smart kid down to neegrow level. Let’s punish him for nothing but our own suspicions.
Agree with Dutchman… it’s all about making the young Edisons, Einsteins, DaVincis and/or Ben Franklins think twice. Creating fear and institutionalizing it will encourage another ‘dark age’ by killing art, experimentation, innovation, critical thinking and out-of-the-box idea generation.
THAT is exactly what they want.
Besides, who the hell would think THIS is a bomb? There isn’t anything to blow up…
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I don’t get this…the kid looks like a muslim (minority) and I thought the liberal school administrators treated his kind with kid gloves (excuse the pun). Yet they throw the book at him?
14 Year Old Texan, Ahmed Mohammed, Arrested For Home-Made Clock Because “It Looks Like A Bomb”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/16/2015 13:50 -0400
A perfect storm of Islamophobia and technophobia (as Wired.com’s Marcus Wohlsen so eloquently put it) has erupted in Texas where high-school freshman Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday after bringing a homemade digital clock to MacArthur High. A teacher at the Irving school exclaimed “it looks like a bomb,” resulting in a call to police. By mid-afternoon, police were leading the boy out of school in handcuffs and taking him to juvenile detention on suspicion of making a “hoax bomb.” As Mike Krieger sums up so perfectly, America is a deeply fallen nation.
In his own words…
As Liberty Blitzkrieg’s Mike Krieger details,
Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.
The family of Ahmed Mohamed said the boy was suspended for three days from MacArthur High School in the Dallas suburb of Irving after taking the clock to class on Monday.
The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported.
– From the ABC News article: Muslim Boy, 14, Detained for Making Clock Mistaken for Bomb
America is a deeply fallen nation. I don’t know how obvious it has to become before people come to grips and start to do something about it.
We haven’t decayed into this tepid abyss of immorality and decadence because of illegal immigrants, no matter what a two-bit demagogue preaching to desperate hordes infected with what Huxley referred to as herd-poisoning tells you. It’s entirely own our fault. We’ve allowed criminals and professional crony capitalists take to total control of the reins of power, and rather than fight against them, we aspire to become them. We have allowed them to scare us into submission by exploiting the tragic events of 9/11 to consolidate the world’s wealth into an increasingly small number of hands. Immigrants didn’t do this. We did, or at the very least, we allowed it to happen.
I harbor nostalgia for the days when Americans were merely ridiculed as being obese, McDonalds eating slobs ignorant of world affairs. We aren’t viewed with this combination of amusement and endearment any longer. Rather, the world now shudders with a mixture of disgust and horror in contemplation of what we have become. A decadent, clownish, wealth obsessed, corrupt, aggressive, war-mongering multitude of brainwashed imperial subjects. Worse yet, it’s not just ignorance anymore. There appears to be a idolization of anti-intellectualism running rampant, something on full display as of late with the ascendence of Donald Trump as a uniquely American strongman-savior. Not only is this stupid, it’s pathetic and dangerous.
America used to celebrate its eccentrics. The strange, creative, iconoclasts who, when allowed to, will generally change society for the better. In modern America, we put them in handcuffs. To illustrate this point, here’s an excerpt from my 2013 post, Remembering Internet Prodigy and Activist Aaron Swartz (1986-2013): Your Life is an Inspiration:
Despite this horrible tragedy, based on the outpouring of disgust even from the mainstream media, I am optimistic that Aaron’s death might actually represent a turning point. An event that can shake people out of their normalcy bias and force them to accept the sad reality they have been loath to admit. That our criminal “justice” system has been completely and totally co-opted by a ruthless, greedy and immoral oligarch class that seems hell bent on throwing the American public into a neo-feudal nightmare of debt slavery and ignorance.
Aaron was a treasure and a gift to the species and only a very sick and dying culture would have led to his premature end. We must look at ourselves in the mirror, accept this reality and change it immediately.
Unfortunately, not much has changed in these two and a half years. Our populace remains as fearful, paranoid and slavish as ever. More destitute, more desperate and more confused than ever before. Feverishly searching for a weak group to blame, and self-satisfied with their slobbering support for a casino billionaire who has provided an easy target. This is the culture that attacked and killed Aaron Swartz, and it is the culture that led to the arrest of a brilliant 14-year-old boy for building a homemade clock.
From ABC News:
Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.
The family of Ahmed Mohamed said the boy was suspended for three days from MacArthur High School in the Dallas suburb of Irving after taking the clock to class on Monday.
The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The school district said in a statement that Ahmed was detained by police. Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News that police are determining whether to file a charge of making a hoax bomb.
This is so typical of the U.S. power structure. Rather than admitting fault for traumatizing a little boy for being particularly smart, they regroup in order to charge him with an invented crime.
So what’s the lesson here learned by Ahmed? That inventiveness and eccentricity are not only unappreciated in America, but that exhibiting such traits is dangerous. In contrast, when members of the so-called “elite” commit systemic theft and embark upon countless unnecessary and devastating wars abroad, they are rewarded with unimaginable wealth. This is the incentive structure in modern America, and is precisely why the country has morphed into little more than a neo-feudal imperial Banana Republic.
For a little more, here’s some coverage from the New York Times:
A high school student in Texas whose hobby was inventing thought he had a unique idea for a project: to build his own clock.
But the effort landed him in handcuffs and juvenile detention, accused of making a hoax bomb.
When Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., on Monday, an engineering teacher suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers. But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News.
In a video posted on the newspaper’s website, Ahmed described how he was taken from school by the police. “They took me to a room filled with five officers,” he said. “They interrogated me, and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention.”
He said he was fingerprinted, and mug shots were taken at a juvenile detention center. He was released when his parents came to retrieve him.
“It made me feel like a criminal,” he said. He was suspended for three days.
“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
Read this line again and again and again until you get it. “The concern was, what was this thing built for?”
Perhaps it was built out of curiosity and passion, or perhaps it was just the spontaneous product of a creative and brilliant mind. So what? Why does it have to be built for a specific purpose? Instead of celebrating such a bright young boy, we criminalize him. It’s a symptom of a very sick and twisted society.
In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
He was wrong. It actually, it looks like this.
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Ahmed’s arrest occurred in Texas. A state so proud of it’s small government stance, yet bizarrely ground zero for a multitude of statist practices.
Fuck that raghead sumbitch.
He shouldn’t even BE in this country.
If he doesn’t fucking like it, he can carry his goat-fucking ass back to Sandland and build all the clocks he wants, free from those evil people at the school…
I agree that schools have gotten out of hand, but what’s even MORE out of hand is fucking towel-heads and every other sort of 3rd world dog shit pouring into this country…
Fuck em all. Give the little shit and his no-dout extended family a fuckin’ bag lunch and a one-way ticket back to wherever shithole they crawled out of…
fucking idiots “educating” children
and a local police force
all proud graduates of the Barney Fife Skool of Law Enforcement
how profoundly pathetic
The Holy Inquisition on Galileo’s telescope: “What was this thing built for?”
LOL
the kid might land a job out of all this
President Obama invites homemade clock-making science whiz kid to the White House
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/16/1421874/-President-Obama-invites-homemade-clock-making-science-whiz-kid-to-the-White-House
hopefully the IDIOT principal and teacher will get fired
along with the Barneys who arrested the kid
dumb asses ALL
they’ve embarrassed the entire country
Greetings,
My family in Italy connects with me on Facebook and they are somewhat at a loss for words when it comes to stuff like this. I can’t get any of them to come and visit me because they think the United States is a nation full of thug clowns.
“But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News.”
I knew if was a fucking English teacher!!! HA! Called it!
Is this was a white kid would it make the national news? Would the white kid be invited to the white house? Would the world’s social justice warriors be falling all over themselves to condemn the teachers and police?
Facebook, Google and white house inviting him to meet up. He will get a college scholarship out of this just watch.
To add to what Thinker said above , I recommend checking out this guy – http://mileswmathis.com/ .
He has a lot to say about the state of education in America and particularly about physics and art.
And his science papers are FASCINATING.
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If this were an episode of Little House on the Prairie, Mr. Ingalls would have taken this opportunity to provide this young lad with an important life lesson. He would have sat this kid down and told him that he just had his first lesson in the failure of social engineering. He would have kindly explained that multiculturalism has never worked in the history of mankind and this is a law of nature and, as such, will never change. He might have also warned him that he would grow up in a world of great stress and strife because the thought police rejected a law of nature which is the worst thing you can do, especially when there is zero ambivalence in the objective evidence.
RIP Charles Ingalls. Love and miss you. (At least I have Billy now.)
Sounds like a CAIR set-up, like when they had a bunch of Imams stand up on a plane – in full musloid regalia – and start “praying” loudly until they scared the shit out of the straights. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/16/texas-14-year-old-arrested-for-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school-after-teacher/?intcmp=hplnws
The stuff I used to take to school would land a kid in Gitmo today : knives, chains, box cutters, M80s by the pound, wrist rockets, etc.
A spitball would get you expelled these days.
The world is doomed.
@Dutchman 12:40 p.m.
Correct – that is exactly what Common Crap is doing, bring down the standards of education so the 85 IQ’ers will appear to become smarter and you bright kid will regress.
A Muslim from the Sudan brings a “digital clock” beeping in a brief case and none of the hard-ass freedum’ first dicktards on TBP would freak. Maybe the Mohammedan population of Sudan hasn’t heard, but digital clocks are now the size of microchips..pherhaps the school faculty is remiss for not informing the kid of this, but still if a Muslim brings a briefcase size digital clock to school , who amongst us wouldn’t freak?
It is unfortunate that things are not much different “Down Under”. As a society we’re just as “OHS conscious” which leads to an effectively zero-tolerance of most things “home-made electrical”. So, the kids spend their time outdoors playing with their electronic devices, and occasionally sports, or indoors playing with their electronic devices.
A good (but sad) example of where we are heading as a society is the recent closure (bankruptcy) of one of our last R/C model shops – Vaggs Hobbies up in Sydney. “Back in the Day” they were usually packed at weekends, but times (and interests) have changed, which is rather sad, really, and makes one wonder where the next generation(s) of real Engineers (as against “App Developers”) will come from.
TE
You trained your kid to be a sheep. We appreciate it.
Little muzzie dirtbag makes a fake bomb and thinks it would be funny to bring it to school. Adults with the responsibility to keep the school safe react predictably, liberal heads explode. Of course obama likes this kid. Of course.
“Little muzzie dirtbag makes a fake bomb ….” —— starfcker
I think you should have a spot on the Repuke Presidential Debate …… you would fit right in with the other STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS.
Here is the twitter page for Ahmed’s school, Irving MacArthur High School.
https://twitter.com/search?vertical=news&q=Irving%20MacArthur%20High%20School
Getting P’owned.
Clocks incoming!
Hey stuck, do a little research. This kid isn’t from some anonymous texas family. His father is a bigtime CAIR activist and runs for president in the sudan every cycle. Don’t be a sucker
What this highlights is the level of ignorance that is common place in this society. Anyone with any technical knowledge can just glance at that and see it poses no danger. I can look at that picture and tell you immediately that thing can’t explode. I’ve come to realize just recently how pathetically ignorant so many people are.
last post was me
TE
I’m reluctant to make this comment and I won’t go into any detail at all, I’ll just say you need to consider a rocket motor every bit as dangerous as a pipe bomb.
I won’t explain because I don’t want to give any idiot any ideas — Please take my word on this.
FYI
Three things you need to do to fix this problem.
First – fire every teacher in the US of A, shut down the schools and start over.
Two – close your borders for the next 50 to 100 years to all immigration and reopen it only to small bursts of screened immigrants when the nation is in need of fresh taxpayers to balance out the demographics between payers and payees closing again thereafter to assimilate said tax donkeys.
Third – balance your budget.
It would be a cluster fuck for a while but in 100 years or so America would once again be the greatest country on earth – next to Canada that is…..
I’d vote Francis Marion for POTUS…and as many times as i could.
You’d have issues with my birth certificate…
FM. actions are more important than place of birth and we’ve already breached that wall with the Kenyan candidate, anyway..
And, I’d rather have Nigel Farage for POTUS than any American i can think.
“They didn’t think he had a bomb.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0…-he-had-a-bomb
“Great Post Sent to Me Today
I said: it’s sad they thought that kid had a bomb.
She said: they didn’t think he had a bomb.
I said: yes, they thought he made a bomb and even called the police.
She said: They just wanted to humiliate a little Muslim boy. They didn’t think he had a bomb.
I said: Don’t be a conspiracy theorist. They might be a little prejudiced, but I’m sure they thought he had a bomb.
She said: OK.
But they didn’t evacuate the school, like you do when there’s a bomb.
They didn’t call a bomb squad – like you do when there’s a bomb.
They didn’t get as far away from him as possible, like you do when there’s a bomb.
Then they put him and the clock in an office: not like you do when there’s a bomb
Then they waited with him for the police to arrive, and then they put the clock in the same car as the police.
Then they took pictures of it.
I said: Damn…..They never thought he had a bomb.
EQUAL RIGHTS are HUMAN RIGHTS
The Irving PD, & the School Admin will be rightfully sued.
They can now pay Ahmed’s way to MIT.
Thanks.
“They never thought he had a bomb”
The kid didn’t invent shit. Even knew his device would look provocative. This YouTube video proves it.
Rise Up
Nice vid.
As more and more data pours in, and I’ve read much about this kid and his family, the more I regret my original postings.
That is not to say I excuse the copfuks. It’s clearly not a bomb, right? But, I don’t trust liars, and this kid is a fucking liar.