(09-16-2015, 11:07 AM)Ignacius Wrote:Actually, I lived a sheltered life as my parents sent me to Catholic schools k-12. Tomboy, didn't really have the option to wear all black but I did have long hair until 9th when I lopped it off for more shorter hair cuts!(09-16-2015, 10:46 AM)Kage Wrote: The face of 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed
Arrested FOR BRINGING A FUCKING HOME-MADE DIGITAL CLOCK TO SCHOOL BECAUSE IT'S A 'BOMB'
I want to talk about a few things here for some things that riled me up.
A. The english teacher who took the clock after it beeped in class? She said it looked like a bomb and then decided -to fucking keep what she said looked like a bomb-.
B. "They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.â€"
-Oh fucking hell no-
C. "“They thought, ‘How could someone like this build something like this unless it’s a threat?’†Ahmed said."
I. What. Ingenuity? Curiosity? Intellectual stimulation? HOBBY? There are so many fucking reasons to build an electronic, like a CLOCK, without it being a threat.
D. "He’s vowed never to take an invention to school again." FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
Holy fuck, fuck you dumbshits. The kid built a fucking digital clock with some stuff laying around at home in 20-fucking-minutes.
E. "It looks like a movie bomb."
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You must not have worn black, had long hair, or listened to heavy metal in high school.
My bag was searched regularly, and not only did I not break the law, I was a very good and attentive student. Â I was never violent. Â But I think I was checked once every few months, and the police generally hovered around our area in high school. Â When someone called in a bomb threat one year, the police subpoenaed my phone records and checked my cell phone to make sure I hadn't called it in. Â All based entirely on my appearance and the music I listened to.
I don't recall a lot of indignation on our behalf after Columbine, though. Â It's just how it is in the US.
I regularly took apart hand held radios/walkman/cassette players.
Edit: Should also mention that in cases right after Columbine and others, the only way for news to really get public was on television and the radio. You couldn't just have someone post up notice on the internet and say "These shit-for-brains did this"