[PLUG-TALK] good grief

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Sep 16 15:55:31 UTC 2015


On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Galen Seitz wrote:

> This is just pathetic.
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/16/they-thought-it-was-a-bomb-ahmed-mohamed-texas-9th-grader-arrested-after-bringing-a-home-built-clock-to-school/?tid=sm_tw>

Might as well tell anyone from a marginalized or feared population not 
to experiment with science and/or engineering because ... Fear.

It's a testimony to the success of the Fear-Industrial Complex that 
high school science teachers and police officers will arrest a boy 
with a Muslim-sounding name even when there's absolutely NO evidence 
whatsoever that his clock was built with explosives in mind (ignoring 
the huge issue that they found no explosives).

And then the school suspends him for three days. When it should be 
apologizing!

O common sense, where art thou?
O civil liberties, where hast thou fled?

-- 
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W


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