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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #175 on: October 23, 2015, 11:07:47 AM »
I wonder if his second appearance will blow up like his first.

I don't think suicide bombers use clock timers.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #176 on: October 23, 2015, 11:41:19 PM »
I heard he'll be attending Truck Driving school there.

More like he's going to become one of the seventy-whatever post-mortem virgins.  I understand their stock is running low.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #177 on: October 24, 2015, 01:52:38 PM »
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #178 on: October 24, 2015, 02:00:45 PM »
Actually they do.  However, Daylight Savings Time kinda screws them up.

http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/9135/Three-suicide-bombers-exploded-prematurely-because-their-timers-were-set-on-Daylight-Savings-Time


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See? More evidence of teh Jooz killing A-rabs.  >:D
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #180 on: November 23, 2015, 04:01:40 PM »
Oh, look!

http://twitchy.com/2015/11/23/theres-a-shocker-family-of-ahmed-clock-kid-mohamed-demands-15-million-from-irving-texas/

Funny, people can demand anything.  They can even demand it in a lawsuit.  Collecting is something entirely different.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #181 on: November 23, 2015, 05:30:50 PM »
They deserve to cillect a meteor- at terminal velocity.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #182 on: November 23, 2015, 05:56:48 PM »
The pre-trial discovery could be enlightening and possibly not in a good way for clock boy.

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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #184 on: July 01, 2016, 06:04:27 PM »
I wonder if he checked or carried-on his clock for the flight back?

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« Reply #185 on: July 01, 2016, 08:40:14 PM »
I wonder if he checked or carried-on his clock for the flight back?

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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #186 on: July 01, 2016, 08:47:24 PM »
He still refers to his motley assemblage of used clock parts as an "invention."

What a dweeb. He is making progress, though -- he has moved from being an idiot to being an attention whore.
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He still refers to his motley assemblage of used clock parts as an "invention."

What a dweeb. He is making progress, though -- he has moved from being an idiot to being an attention whore.
Does that mean he's changing his name to Muhammad al-Kardashian?
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #188 on: July 04, 2016, 01:29:31 PM »
I wonder if he checked or carried-on his clock for the flight back?

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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #189 on: August 09, 2016, 10:46:14 AM »
Thread necro.

Now that the family is back in Texas, they have filed a lawsuit. I just saw a news snippet where the kid was being interviewed. He was on the verge of tears talking about how his home had been taken from him and how he has "lost his creativity". I guess the fact that POTUS brought him to the white house didn't give him a boost. Hopefully a Texas jury will see through this.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/08/family-muslim-teen-arrested-over-clock-files-lawsuit.html
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #190 on: August 09, 2016, 10:53:28 AM »
Thread necro.

Now that the family is back in Texas, they have filed a lawsuit. I just saw a news snippet where the kid was being interviewed. He was on the verge of tears talking about how his home had been taken from him and how he has "lost his creativity". I guess the fact that POTUS brought him to the white house didn't give him a boost. Hopefully a Texas jury will see through this.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/08/family-muslim-teen-arrested-over-clock-files-lawsuit.html

His dad has been coaching him how to cry on cue.

When they lose the case, they'll probably try to sue the jury for being racist.

(I still think the school overreacted and Irving PD was heavy-handed.  They took the bait)
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #191 on: August 09, 2016, 10:56:12 AM »
His dad has been coaching him how to cry on cue.

When they lose the case, they'll probably try to sue the jury for being racist.

(I still think the school overreacted and Irving PD was heavy-handed.  They took the bait)

I also think there was an overreaction at the start of all this. The family has turned into the Kardashians of the Muslim community though.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #192 on: August 09, 2016, 11:29:02 AM »
His dad has been coaching him how to cry on cue.

When they lose the case, they'll probably try to sue the jury for being racist.

(I still think the school overreacted and Irving PD was heavy-handed.  They took the bait)

Yep. And just like with the black lives matter people instead of concentrating on when there is a legitimate complaint and working to correct the heavy handedness of police and lack of responsibility, they make it a religion/race thing.

We have legitimate problems with schools and police overreacting and acting in heavy handed manners. This is generally the fault of politicians and courts with allowing more and more violations of rights for the good of the children, zero tolerance, war on drugs, what have you. Instead of joining to condemn legitimate abuses/overreactions/etc they jump to identity politics and usually cling to bad examples i.e. Michael Brown and nothing gets fixed.

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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #193 on: August 09, 2016, 11:42:30 AM »
Yep. And just like with the black lives matter people instead of concentrating on when there is a legitimate complaint and working to correct the heavy handedness of police and lack of responsibility, they make it a religion/race thing.

We have legitimate problems with schools and police overreacting and acting in heavy handed manners. This is generally the fault of politicians and courts with allowing more and more violations of rights for the good of the children, zero tolerance, war on drugs, what have you. Instead of joining to condemn legitimate abuses/overreactions/etc they jump to identity politics and usually cling to bad examples i.e. Michael Brown and nothing gets fixed.

And POTUS sticking his nose in, always only on one side of the equation, helps nothing. Well, it helps to fan the flames.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #194 on: August 09, 2016, 11:55:39 AM »
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #195 on: August 09, 2016, 05:00:27 PM »
His dad has been coaching him how to cry on cue.

When they lose the case, they'll probably try to sue the jury for being racist.

(I still think the school overreacted and Irving PD was heavy-handed.  They took the bait)
The school did take the bait, but I think it is pretty clear it was bait and he was trolling for the "OMG a Bomb!" reaction.  The school suspension might be a bit heavy, but far more justified than a lot of suspensions schools hand out.  I don't see how there are any damages to sue over.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #196 on: January 10, 2017, 09:22:06 PM »
Old topic, but in the news again. Clock Boy's lawsuit has been thrown out.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/10/clock-boy-loses-in-court-dads-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/

He (actually his father) sued for defamation.

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During the lengthy hearing, Judge Moore pressed Mohamed’s lawyer, Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison, to provide any facts that would suggest that Hanson and the other defendants had said anything false or defamatory about Mohamed or his son during the television broadcasts. After spending a painfully embarrassing 15 minutes flipping through reams of paper, Mohamed’s lawyer was unable to provide any such evidence.

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During the hearing, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel David Yerushalmi explained to Judge Moore that the purpose of the lawfare-driven lawsuit was to intimidate into silence those who might comment publicly on the connection between jihad, terrorism, sharia, and Islam. As such, Yerushalmi argued, "this case is a classic Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation or ‘SLAPP’ case and should be dismissed.”

The article introduces a term I wasn't familiar with: "civilization jihad."
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #197 on: January 11, 2017, 09:01:13 AM »
The article introduces a term I wasn't familiar with: "civilization jihad."

"Jihad" is as widely used of a term as "Crusade" and "War".  IE "War against Drugs", "Crusading against Homelessness", etc...

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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #198 on: January 11, 2017, 09:07:21 AM »
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In the 2008 terrorism trial United States v. Holy Land Foundation a document written by senior Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammad Akram was entered into evidence.

The document was called An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group and it says that the purpose of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America is “a Civilization-Jihadist Process” and they are conducting a “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated.”

The term “civilization jihad” is our enemy’s own name for efforts to subvert our society from within using the very freedoms they will then take away.
http://counterjihad.com/backgrounder/what-is-civilization-jihad/

In other words, jihad by social justice warfare. I'm not sure how that would differ from the Left's program.
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Re: Texas 14-year-old arrested for homemade clock that looked like a bomb
« Reply #199 on: January 11, 2017, 09:11:33 AM »
http://counterjihad.com/backgrounder/what-is-civilization-jihad/

In other words, jihad by social justice warfare. I'm not sure how that would differ from the Left's program.

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