'Can You Prove You're Not A Potential Terrorist?'

[Ideologue]

How times change. When I was a kid, I brought a home-made crossbow to school. No-one batted an eyelid. 

When I was a kid we got suspended for playing spades at school. Because it leads to gambling you see.

I wish you were around here.  No one plays spades anymore.

Poor kid.  If we had a total surveillance state, of course, he'd never have been arrested, since competent analysts working at a centralized location and alerted by the threat detection algorithms, rather than idiot school officials and local yokel police, would have determined that he was making a clock.

[Ideologue]

The letter they sent to the school community is pretty infuriating, too, inasmuch as--probably as an attempt to avoid admitting liability--it doesn't admit fault or apologize, but instead exhorts parents to talk with their kids about the school code of conduct regarding prohibited items and also for students to remain vigilant and report suspicious items and actions to the school authorities.  What a joke.

[DGuller]

He's been released :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34266389

Getting some nice attention off Obama, Zuckerberg etc etc

You may that that this is working pretty well for him. 

[Admiral Yi]

I wish you were around here.  No one plays spades anymore.

Hearts is a better game.

[PRC]

I wish you were around here.  No one plays spades anymore.

Hearts is a better game.

Euchre beats both!

[jimmy olsen]

I wish you were around here.  No one plays spades anymore.

Hearts is a better game.

High Low Jack was our school game of choice, and far superior! 

[Scipio]

I stabbed a kid in the ear with a pen because I thought he stole and hid my backpack. We're friends now, but it turns out he was trying to help get the backpack back for me.

Yeah, I was a psychotic dick.

Fuck Texas.

[Scipio]

To be clear, based on modern standards of evidence, I can't even prove I'm not a potential rapist.

Fuck life.

[jimmy olsen]

To be clear, based on modern standards of evidence, I can't even prove I'm not a potential rapist.

Fuck life.

Are you drunk?

[Martinus]

He's been released :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34266389

Getting some nice attention off Obama, Zuckerberg etc etc

Yeah, he got invites to the White House, Facebook and Google, and from some other Silicon Valley people.

If he met with Obama, Zuckerberg and the others in one place and THEN actually detonated the bomb, it would have been the best terrorist plot ever.

[Syt]

Remember the shoe bomber? They should detain all students who wear shoes. Might be bombs.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Remember the shoe bomber? They should detain all students who wear shoes. Might be bombs.

There was an underpants bomber too 

[Martinus]

Incidentally, predictably, there is a second level to this story - apparently the mayor of Irving is an right wing moron who is on a crusade against the sharia law being imposed in Texas:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ahmed-mohamed-beth-van-duyne-sharia

It's very predictable, isn't it? Behind every racist cop abusing his powers there seems to be a moronic conservative politician enabling him.

[mongers]

Sad to see the local cops doubling down on the stupidity by saying students shouldn't bring odd looking things to school. 

[Ed Anger]

Sad to see the local cops doubling down on the stupidity by saying students shouldn't bring odd looking things to school.

In the ago of zero tolerance, it ain't bad advice.