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Originally Posted by orangemoore
He has never claimed that he invented what he made but he still built it. Most students don't do the kind of things that he did. I personally can say that I wish I did the things that he does but I just don't put the time in.
Maybe other people have done more to deserve the recognition he has gotten but the price he has paid is being arrested for something that he did not do. And that seems very likely that he was racially profiled for.
If someone really thought what he brought in was a bomb; why didn't they stop touching/handling it, evacuate the school, and call the bomb squad? Saying it is just stupid they didn't evacuate the school is an understatement. Based on the response of the school district and how they want to protect all of the students they serve, they failed that objective when the first idea that it was a bomb came up and they didn't get the students away from it.
If anyone had any common sense and believed it to really be a bomb the first thing to do to protect the "All students" would have been to evacuate the school. The story of the school and the police don't add up to someone truly believing that there was some type of bomb threat.
He really seemed to be racially profiled to me because when he insisted that it was a clock the police were still called. When the police interviewed him they kept asking what it was and he always had the same response: "It is a clock". Why did the police keep asking? If someone gives you one answer constantly to the same question you ask over and over again, isn't it a pointless question?
Also by the definition of a bomb that the school/police went by literally includes all electronic devices. So phones, calculators, clocks, watches, ipods, ipads, computers, etc.
You make a lot of statements counting them as fact when they truly are not. And as an anonymous account on this forum you really don't get much credit.
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I'm not sure if he himself claimed he invented it, it might have just been mainstream media saying that, but his father did say that to reporters and also had inconsistencies in the story. Like saying
to CNN that “it was an alarm clock that he made. He wakes up with it most mornings,” and then later saying on
Dallas News he made the clock in 20 minutes the night before taking it to school.
I didn't put much emphasis on the bomb threat because that wasn't a concern of mine, I just addressed it since it was a major part of why people have been taking sides. I myself think the school overreacted, but again, being wronged doesn't mean you deserve anything. Let alone what he got. My point wasn't that there are people who deserve reward more than him, my point was that people don't deserve rewards for being wronged. Let alone thousands of dollars worth of rewards and a free trip to the white house. Those should be things that are earned, not given to you because something bad happened to you.
I feel the same way about the families of, for example, 9/11 victims' families, who were given millions of dollars of tax payer's money in return for their lost one. They didn't need, let alone deserve, that money, which could have been used for rebuilding the city or for people who DID need it. They did deserve any sort of life insurance that they may have had with that family member, but what was given to them wasn't this and was just wasteful, unfair charity.
"You make a lot of statements counting them as fact when they truly are not."
Tell me which statements I made that were like this.
Also, "as an anonymous account on this forum you really don't get much credit." is fallacious. Popularity=/=credibility. Additionally, I'm not anonymous. Daisies is the handle I use for everything, when it's available, and I'm not hiding my identity or location.