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>I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweet
by jcfrei 11y ago
>I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweets) have talked of punishing, penalizing, or in the very least reprimanding the officers and teachers who put him through this. How is that?
Maybe because the world has bigger problems than one police officer and a teacher acting out of line. It's a story the internet loves and perpetuates but frankly absolutely unimportant.
- moron4hire 11y agoMaybe we have more than enough resources to handle even the problems you deem trivial.
- blizkreeg 11y agoBy that measure, unless someone dies, nothing is important. Couldn't you conceive of a situation where he (let's say out of panic) acts weird and an officer shoots him dead on suspicion of a suitcase containing a bomb? Would that make it important enough?
- blakeja 11y agoFunny you should put it like that. Now that actual pictures of the "digital clock" are available, that is first time I have seen a clock built into a metal suitcase that, golly gee, somewhat resembles a bomb. Ya'll are being absurd. That kid new what he was doing, I did stupid shit like that when I his age...worse in fact, these days I would have made national headlines if I had been caught. So I know what I am talking about here. He may be be a smart boy, but you put that briefcase in any Hollywood movie or video game and they would call it a bomb. If he was really building a clock it would at least somewhat really resemble a clock. Bear in mind, I am a strong opponent of the rising police state and slow creep of tyranny that I hope is becoming obvious to even the more ignorant sections of the populace. But this...come on guys, call a spade a spade.
- Gigablah 11y ago"Metal suitcase"? "Briefcase"? It's merely the size of a pencil box. In fact, it IS a pencil box. Call a spade a spade.
- kitwalker12 11y agoI'm so annoyed that NO ONE is mentioning THIS fact. It's a pencil box people
- wpietri 11y agoPssst: You do not live in a Hollywood movie or video game. Here in the real world, he biggest recent terrorist incident in the US, the Boston Marathon bombing, used a backpack. But nobody is suggesting that kids be arrested for bringing backpacks to school. And yes, the kid knew what he was doing: bringing in one of his hobby projects to show his teachers. Which is exactly what we want students to do. The problem is that the teachers didn't know what they were doing.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"that is first time I have seen a clock built into a metal suitcase" Pencil case, not a suitcase. When I was a kid, I used whatever case I could come up with for my projects. Cigar boxes, whatever. I understand that Altoids tins are quite popular with the young tinkerers of today.
- mikeash 11y agoIn what way does it resemble a bomb, exactly?
- AjithAntony 11y agoI was skeptical until i saw the picture. If there was no other context it looks pretty suspicious. If you left this thing unattended at bus stop you bet there would be a bomb squad on it. But now that we are all familiar with pencil box clocks, one could easily mimic this design for a real bomb. A block of c4 would work nicely as the transformer core.
- dsugarman 11y agoPolice culture is currently toxic and is a danger to all US citizens
- jessaustin 11y agoI would say to all residents of and visitors to USA.
- krauthammer 11y agoIn China, when a large group of people all start successfully breaking the law the same way (and getting away with it) the people get paranoid and round them all up and shoot them. This has happened several times in the past century, and it still occurs. They do this because in the past, these kinds of criminal groups have taken control of China. People like you that discredit history and also geography when you think about politics, nationalism and race, are a true danger to society.
- gress 11y agoAre you suggesting an immediate pardon for any crime less serious than kidnapping or slander?
- jessaustin 11y agoFor agents of the state, certainly!
- rralian 11y agoReally? That sounds like a solid step towards fascism.
- jessaustin 11y agoSorry, I forgot a smiley on that one. b^)
- rralian 11y agoHeh. It's difficult to tell. :-) That doesn't sound like a far-fetched sentiment outside of the HN community.
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- Gigablah 11y agoMaybe this story is much more important than you think because plenty of people see it as a symptom of a larger problem than an isolated incident.
- ashwinaj 11y agoThis unfortunate event is a microcosm of the society (in the US) we live in: - Most people love to be PC and no one has the cajones to have a frank conversation about race issues as adults (especially in the red states). - A lot of people love to spew out personal anecdotes and pass them off as the truth and anything opposing to that POV as an exception to their anecdotal belief - The fact that none of them have apologized (at this point in time, even if they issue one, it's going to be fake) shows the disdain and bigotry against minorities, generally speaking