Well, hell, Eric. Will YOU build a bomb next week and kill people? Probably not. Maybe.
Maybe! This is mere hysteria. Maybe. If we arrest people and harass them on the grounds of potential 'maybe's, then everyone should be locked up right away. Oh, wait. Maybe the police are maybe going to turn out to be bombers, too. And the jailers. So the police should lock up the police too. Because of "maybe." Maybe your Cheerios have been poisoned. After all, it could be true. Let's arrest the clerk who rang your Cheerios up. Because, maybe, he is in on it. Of course, probably not. But maybe in your world, "maybe" is sufficient. Cheers, Lawry Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Lawrence de Bivort <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Let's say that the kid's clock looked like a Hollywood bomb. > > Yes, let's acknowledge this simple point, for our own credibility. Let's go > further for the sake of completeness -- it's missing the explosives. > >> The kid gets accosted by school personnel. So far so good. But instead of >> handcuffing him, belittling him, calling the cops, and suspending him, >> intelligent school personnel would have looked at the clock seen that it was >> no bomb, warned the kid to not pretend it was a bomb, and sent him off to >> class. End of story. > > Not the end of story. Will the kid try to put explosives in it in a week or > two and come back to school? Probably not. Maybe. > >> You don't think islamophonia and racism didn't have a major role to play in >> what actually happened? Please. > > I haven't argued there was no islamophobia. > > Eric >
