On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote:
if someone with notion of electronics says that it looks like a bomb, I > remove even his bachelor of science immediately. > You and Jed have both missed the point. The skill that went into the thing has nothing to do with what is of concern. The intention is what is of concern. What does a young kid who brought such a thing to a school intend to do? Perhaps the intention was harmless, or perhaps it was other than harmless. Now the school administration has a situation to sort out. The thing looked like a stage prop from Mission Impossible. It does not look like an accurate prop, or a finished prop. But it definitely looks like the makings of a Hollywood briefcase bomb. Anyone who argues against this only discredits himself, greatly. The kid said it was just a clock. He may have discredited himself in the process, perhaps escalating things. In an earlier time, this might have just been a harmless electronics project. In this time, there are additional considerations to be taken into account. None of this is to say that there was no racism in the incident. But ignore Mohamed's race and religion for a moment, and the concerns remain. Eric
