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he [the father] owns a computer repair shop in Irving, Texas (perhaps where his son gets his tech acuity from)

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I smell a rat. Maybe that's where he got his tech savvy and maybe this whole thing is just a set up. How did this kid and his father think the school authorities would react to a briefcase full of wires and connections? Why didn't they make provision for the school to inspect this thing prior to it being brought into the classroom? Are they really that stupid, or...?

Matt Walsh, one of my favorite bloggers, has written a piece of this kid and its wider implications. The entire article can be read here: http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/is...than-the-truth/ and is well worth a read, but for those of limited time I shall post what I consider the most salient points.

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Progressivism is an ideology built entirely on narratives.

Rarely do the narratives coincide with reality, and wherever the two contradict, the narrative wins. Every time. If progressives decided to construct a narrative that the moon is made of rock candy, it would be immediately required that every discussion about the moon be centered on reaffirming this fiction. If an astronaut visited the moon then came home and reported that, in fact, the moon does not consist of delicious sugary confections, he would be labeled a moonophobe or a moonist, and calls would ring out for his termination and possible execution. Once the narrative is established, everything surrounding it must serve the sole purpose of reinforcing it. Nothing else matters to progressives. Only the narrative.

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One affirms a racial narrative, the others do not. That’s why Obama reaches out to the kid with the clock that looks like an IED, but not the frat boys at the University of Virginia who were slandered all over the national media because of a feminist rape hoax. That’s why we still hear ”Hands Up Don’t Shoot” shouted by fools, even though everyone knows Mike Brown said no such thing, as he was too busy trying to beat Officer Darren Wilson to death. That’s why the Matthew Shepard murder is still cited to prove anti-gay hatred in the United States, despite the fact that Shephard was actually an addict killed by another homosexual over a drug dispute.

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And now this kid Ahmed.

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Eventually, his clock came to the attention of another teacher — maybe accidentally, or maybe because Ahmed was trying to cause trouble — and that teacher reported it to the school resource officer. Ahmed was “interrogated” (they took him to a room in the school and asked him some questions) about the device by several cops, and then cuffed. Later, he was released without charges. If Ahmed were named Anthony or Andy or Arthur or Alex or even Anna, that would be the end of this story, and none of us ever would have heard about it. But because Ahmed is a brown-skinned Muslim with a Muslim-sounding name, progressives detected a racial angle to exploit.

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The kid’s activist father cried to the cameras that his son was put through “hell,” and that “he was hurt and was tortured and arrested and mistreated.” Tortured. TORTURED. He sat in an air conditioned room for an hour. Get a grip, pops. Torture is what Muslims are doing to people overseas. What happened to Ahmed was more of an annoyance. A profitable annoyance, it turns out. Indeed, the very fact that his dad is going so absurdly and eagerly and automatically overboard makes me suspect all the more that the whole thing was a set up. At this point at least, a set up is far more likely than the idea that the kid was targeted purely for his skin color and religion.

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The cops say Ahmed was not forthright with them and that’s why this thing went on for as long as it did. They say he was being passive aggressive and refusing to answer their questions about why he brought the device to school. Ahmed retorts that all the adults are Muslim hating liars and he is pure and innocent. Choose to believe whoever you want, but either way, the fact that they didn’t evacuate means nothing. That’s not the point. But the point doesn’t matter in Narrative Land.

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Notably, as all of this goes on, the other side of the story isn’t taken into account or remotely considered at all. On that end, the school and the mayor of the town have defended the handling of the situation. They say everyone followed protocols and did what they were supposed to do. It becomes a bit of a he said/he said scenario; a teenager and his activist family on one side, and administrators and police officers just trying to do their jobs on the other. Personally — no offense to Ahmed — but I’m not sure he should be the one who gets the benefit of the doubt here.

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Indeed, no matter how you feel about the police response, consider that kids in public school are frequently suspended, expelled, and/or arrested for far more trivial matters. Kids of all races — black, white, brown — have landed in serious, sometimes legal, trouble for spraying perfume, chewing a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun, kissing another student, bringing a leaf to school, packing a butter knife in a lunch box, pointing a finger, wearing an American flag t-shirt, shooting Nerf guns, burping, doodling, drawing a picture of Jesus, etc. Just this week, 23 students in Virginia were suspended for wearing Confederate flag apparel.

All of these “offenses” are, in my view, far less serious than bringing something that resembles a suitcase bomb to school. And in all of these cases, kids were arrested or suspended without any worldwide outrage, or any invitations to the White House, or any job offers from Twitter, or any prayer vigils. Why?

The answer is narrative.

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