[blind-democracy] Re: Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fear-

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:59:24 -0400

Don't forget that Trump was a promoter of the birther movement and when he could not prove that Obama was not a U.S.born citizen I don't really recall that he ever admitted to having been wrong. That might have a lot to do with his failure to refute this clown.

On 9/18/2015 10:31 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:

Warning! This is the tip of a time bomb, ticking down to Zero.
If anyone has lingering doubts, just revisit this week's edition of,
"Republican Clowns On Parade", and listen to the clatter of weapons
being aimed at any who appear different. Listen to the exchange
between Donald Trump and his Hate-Spewing supporter, calling out for
the extermination of anyone who is Muslim, looks like a Muslim, is
determined to be a Muslim, and most likely anyone with skin color that
is considered too dark. And Emperor Trump did not slam the door in
this freak's face. Trump allowed the flames of hatred and fear to
spread, even to the President of the United States of America.
This is coming to us courtesy of the Republican National Leadership.
A clear picture of our future under any of those "Leader Wannabees"
And we, Fools that we were, believed Americans had become too educated
to fall for another McCarthy. After that demented Senator's effort to
spread fear and hatred by declaring a Communist Threat, and dubbing
anyone or anything that did not agree with his demented beliefs, as
Red or Pinko, and a threat to our American Way of Life.
But it appears that we've been too conditioned to love being scared
and shocked. We love that frightening feeling that at any moment a
Boogie Man might jump out and grab us. We are taking to our constant
training in violence, anger, unreasoned fear, and vengeance. How it
must amuse our Masters as they watch the results of their handiwork,
seeing us turn on one another, sparing them the task of doing us in.
Maybe we really are as stupid as they think we are. Maybe we are
easily marched by the Pied Pipers of the Empire, down the road of self
destruction.
If what we are witnessing as "The Cream of the best leaders our nation
can offer, then the fix really is in, and our self destruction cannot
be turned back.

Carl Jarvis
On 9/17/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greenwald writes: "What happened in Irving, Texas yesterday to a
14-year-old
Muslim high school freshman is highly illustrative of the rotted fruit of
the US's sustained climate of cultivated anti-Muslim fear and
demonization."

MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)


Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: The Fruits of Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15

There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State of Emergency" it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified as "extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a 14-year-old Muslim high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained climate of cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News reports that "Ahmed Mohamed
-
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart - hoped to impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High," but "instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing stuff," Ahmed was
arrested by the police and led out of school with his hands cuffed behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be questioned by the four police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one of them - who had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name - one of the
most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by the boy's family,
taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was anything more than a clock,
nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and inventive freshman built
it
as anything other than a school project. But even now, "police say they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they acknowledge he told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock." According to the BBC, "police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the interview, Ahmed had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable to give
a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself by posting a video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And it's easy to mock,
which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting it as some sort of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the opposite of aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for many
years. The circumstances that led to this are systemic and cultural, not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had created a
special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with every fiber of my being"
the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website gushed that Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system" and hailed her
as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was targeted
at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving City Council went out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill - William "Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to 'embrace the Muslims'"
-
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide margin." I've spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative of the U.S. broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went into a shameful fit of
mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero - as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack - but since then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of opposition from their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical menacing and violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more negatively toward Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge numbers of innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are drained away from individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of weapons manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded - seized - in its name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized in order to maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war against predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last six years alone - and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school. That's no more surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and inevitable, not surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-
fruits-15-years-fear-mongering-anti-muslim-animus/https://theintercept.com/2
015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-fruits-15-years-fear-monge
ring-anti-muslim-animus/
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: The Fruits of Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15
here are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State of Emergency" it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified as "extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a 14-year-old Muslim high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained climate of cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News reports that "Ahmed Mohamed
-
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart - hoped to impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High," but "instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing stuff," Ahmed was
arrested by the police and led out of school with his hands cuffed behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be questioned by the four police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one of them - who had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name - one of the
most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by the boy's family,
taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was anything more than a clock,
nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and inventive freshman built
it
as anything other than a school project. But even now, "police say they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they acknowledge he told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock." According to the BBC, "police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the interview, Ahmed had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable to give
a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself by posting a video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And it's easy to mock,
which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting it as some sort of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the opposite of aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for many
years. The circumstances that led to this are systemic and cultural, not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had created a
special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with every fiber of my being"
the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website gushed that Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system" and hailed her
as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was targeted
at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving City Council went out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill - William "Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to 'embrace the Muslims'"
-
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide margin." I've spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative of the U.S. broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went into a shameful fit of
mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero - as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack - but since then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of opposition from their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical menacing and violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more negatively toward Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge numbers of innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are drained away from individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of weapons manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded - seized - in its name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized in order to maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war against predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last six years alone - and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school. That's no more surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and inevitable, not surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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