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Smart kid either waynsaspook said:I love America, winning the hearts and minds of possible 'Hoax bombers' with electronic goodies.
Smart kid either waynsaspook said:I love America, winning the hearts and minds of possible 'Hoax bombers' with electronic goodies.
That part of the Texas Constitution (and of 7 other states) was voided 55 years ago. So it is false to say that Texas excludes atheists from holding office.Rio Larsen said:Oops, I forgot another thing adding to my criticism of Texas. Texas excludes atheists from being in office. Article 1, Section 4: "RELIGIOUS TESTS. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." In other words, they believe in "freedom of religion" but not "freedom from religion." Last time I checked, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
OmCheeto said:Hey! @Drakkith is from Texas! And I'm pretty sure @Evo lived there for a while...
Digging deeper into the story, it seems there is more to it than just brains, bigotry, and innocence:
"...packed up the wirey mess in a pencil case to show his engineering teacher..."
Reminds me a bit of a line from "Men in Black":
This kid has a "beeping" "pencil case" that looks way more like a suitcase.
He's an engineering child, and should not have any interest in colored pencils.
I would have been suspicious too.
DaleSpam said:The Irving Tx Police Department does not have a bomb squad. There was nobody qualified to make that determination.
atyy said:'He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.'
Q: How much time elapsed between the beeping and when he showed the English teacher the clock?
'“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”
The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.'
Q: Where did the teacher keep the suspected bomb? How quickly did the teacher inform the police of the suspected bomb? Was the school immediately evacuated?
Getting arrested isn't going to ruin anyone's future. It is not a severe consequence.BiGyElLoWhAt said:Arresting him, and threatening to charge him with making a hoax bomb, which could potentially ruin his future, or at least make it very difficult, is another thing completely. I'm not upset that they investigated. I'm upset at the consequences.
mheslep said:Thirty percent of $15 million - a nice pay day for shake down lawyers.
OmCheeto said:Cha-Ching!
Moving guide: 10 things to know before relocating to Qatar [telegraph.co.uk]
Oct 15, 2015
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My first week in Qatar is a permanent fixture in my memory, ineffectually filed under “try to forget”
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Yes, his future is not what it used to be.HossamCFD said:It seems like everything that happened to that kid had been heavily politicised. Now that he moved to Qatar, sadly even his future has become a political statement.
On September 14th, 2015, a 14-year-old 9th grader named Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at his school in Irving, Texas for bringing a homemade clock to school. The clock was mistaken for a bomb by school officials and the police were called.
The 9th grader was arrested because the school and police believed that the homemade clock was a bomb and posed a threat to the safety of the school and its students. They thought that the clock was a hoax bomb meant to cause harm.
Yes, the 9th grader was charged with a crime. He was initially charged with possession of a hoax bomb, but the charges were later dropped. However, he was still suspended from school for three days.
The 9th grader's arrest received widespread media attention because many people believed that the incident was a result of racial and religious discrimination. The 9th grader is Muslim and many felt that he was unfairly targeted because of his race and religion.
The incident sparked a national conversation about racial and religious discrimination, as well as the treatment of students in schools. The 9th grader's family filed a lawsuit against the school district and the city, and eventually reached a settlement. The 9th grader also received numerous invitations to visit the White House and meet with President Obama, as well as scholarships and internship opportunities from various organizations.