I was impressed with some of the developments apparently taking place in American school systems:<p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/public-school-students-are-new-inmates-american-police-state" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/public-school-stude...</a><p>"In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools, these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative, multi-million dollar deals being cut with military contractors such as Taser International to equip these school cops with tasers, tanks, rifles and $100,000 shooting detection systems."<p>"Indeed, the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools, where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles, MRAP armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and other military gear. One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team."<p>"One SRO is accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line. That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury. In Pennsylvania, a student was tased after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away."
You should be worried that even the police are so darn stupid that they do not understand that bombs are things made out of EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, and not boxes with wires like you see in the movies. EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS are dangerous. So are the triggers that set them off because they are small containers of explosive that can be set off by an electric current.<p>Switches, on the other hand, are not dangerous unless they are attached to a blasting cap and other EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL. Neither are mobile phones (even though ALL MOBILE PHONE BATTERIES ARE MADE OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL) and neither are timing devices such as clocks. A clock is not even dangerous when it is attached to a switch, unless of course, a blasting cap and EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL is already attached.<p>Police and other personnel responsible for public safety, like teachers, cannot be allowed to wallow in ignorance living in a fantasy world. They must have some awareness of REAL THINGS so that they can recognize dangers. Why are these people not trained how to recognize EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS, triggers, blasting caps, etc.?<p>There are enough crazies out there know, also living in a fantasy world, that the people charged with public safety need to know how to distinguish REAL THREATS from Hollywood fantasy. I blame the incompetence and corruption of management, i.e. school boards, police commissioners, mayors, etc.
If anyone in the Irving area has a electronics company, offer this kid an after-school job.<p>It doesn't sound like his love for science/engineering/electronics has been significantly harmed, but we, as a society, need to keep encouraging kids in these areas, and not shitting all over their passion, no matter what their name, nationality, or race is. It is thoroughly disgusting that the authorities, both the teachers/school and the police, are ignorant enough to make this a story at all.
This might have to do with his dad more than the kid, the dad [1] might have been under radar for being involved in Sudan elections.<p>1.<a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/why-mohamed-elhassan-the-dallas-imam-who-played-defense-attorney-in-quran-torching-church-says-he-admires-terry-jones-7130292" rel="nofollow">http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/why-mohamed-elhassan-the-...</a>
2.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vegPu2iaI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vegPu2iaI</a>
If only the police department had access to say, a bomb squad. I'm sure the folks from the bomb squad could take a 5 minute look at this thing and say, "wow, no triggers or anything! Looks like we got a clock here!" But now, almost as if they know it's coming, the police have changed their story to, "well, it looks like it _could_ be a bomb, and uh, that's illegal too - so we're saving America here."