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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Guess what, a Texas middle school seems a pretty unlikely target in comparison to the "President's Park."  Once a goober always a goober.[/quote]

And how about a high school in say, Columbine, Colorado?       Is that an unlikely target?    If a student walks in with what looks like a gun or a bomb, should we not say anything, because it is most likely harmless?

A bomb is neither a joking matter or an opportunity to score political points. [/quote]

At what point after you have determined that it is not a bomb, do you quit persecuting the poor kid? I don't think anyone is bothered that someone thought the clock looked threatening. The issue is that that in reaction to their fear, the school officials called the police, the police cuffed him and subjected him to interrogation. That was an extreme over-reaction. By their own admission, the police were not willing to accept that the clock was a clock. They had predetermined that there was a "wider explanation". 
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and Tsarnev's Djokar simply had a pressure cooker-sadly these days we need to take all kinds of precautions.  [/quote]

They had a bomb. Ahmed had a clock. If you are not capable of distinguishing one from the other, you have no business being in either a school or a police department.
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I think that comment is beneath you. It is a clock that was disassembled and reassembled in a pencil case. Without close inspection ( opening it up) a teacher couldn't tell it was only a clock. His science teacher told him not to show it to anyone, so he obviously new that it looked suspicious. The English teacher got alarmed when she heart it beeping. Would you really want her not to err on the side of safety?[/quote]

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