![]() Granted that Harris was specifically referring to airport security when he made his recommendation that suspicion of terrorist intent should be focused on what he considers to be an actual threat: “Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim.” But airport policies have now been extended to many public buildings, tourist attractions, sports arenas, etc. Septemat 6:36 I have read Sam Harris’s position, and also seen his inability or refusal to accept rational arguments against his position on airport security – ![]() ![]() Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Soon after the press conference, Obama tweeted:Ĭool clock, Ahmed. A talented kid, yes, but still just a kid. Except to Ahmed, but hey, he’s just some kid. “The follow-up investigation revealed the device apparently was a homemade experiment, and there’s no evidence to support the perception he intended to create alarm,” Boyd said. He was later released to his parents, Boyd said. Boyd said Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety and for the safety of the officers” and taken to a juvenile detention center. School officers questioned Ahmed about the device and why he’d brought it to school. Oooooh yeah, and so is the inside of this laptop I’m typing on, and so is the inside of every computer in MacArthur High School, along with all the phones and tablets and every other ELekTronIck device anyone in the building has. God bless America.Īt a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said charges won’t be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after bringing what school officials and police described as a “hoax bomb” on campus.īoyd said the device - confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen’s insistence that it was a clock - was “certainly suspicious in nature.” A kid makes a techy creative science project clock and takes it to school and he gets arrested. Don’t forget to subscribe to email alerts at the top of the sidebar.Fabulous. The meme is erroneous where it matters most, and that fact may reveal the intent of its creator. These cases are not remotely the same size.Īnd, neither are bombs. (He’s no defender of Ahmed, but proves all the parts are clock-related since they came from another clock.) Scaling from the size of the Novell tag and travel tags on the demo case handle, it’s easy to see a width of 16-18 inches, a depth of 4-5 inches and 10-12 inches from hinges to clasps. Here’s another configuration of that same case.Īhmed’s pencil case is 8.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 inches as determined by this writer who reverse engineered the clock. The section included this photo tagged “Malta, photos, suitcase”: Image source I’m also happy I didn’t bring the Honeywell demo kit with me it since it is full of electronics and switches and I’m sure it would have raised some questions. I just hope that they will have all the the time they need to search my bag and still get it on the flight. I assume that if you buy a ticket at the last minute in Frankfurt traveling alone to a foreign location that you get a little extra attention from the Bundespolizei. In 2007, an author at Symbiotic Publishing chronicled his trip to Malta and said, How do we know the meme is not a legitimate comparison? Because the image on the right is of a Honeywell demo case. Because every “movie bomb” has a power cord.Ĭonspicuously missing from each photo is C4, blasting caps, dynamite, nitro glycerin, or gunpowder. The only similarities between the two are a bunch wires, computer boards, and power cords. The problem is this: Ahmed’s clock wasn’t a bomb, and the “actual suitcase bomb” isn’t a bomb either. Then, someone with intent to defame the kid created a meme of Ahmed’s clock and “an actual suitcase bomb.” So Ahmed Mohamed made a clock that wasn’t a bomb.
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