[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

[Zippster]

And I think that’s actually at the root of the problem, that word, “judgement”.
Too many people can’t make a well-reasoned decision about things like this.
Too many decades of being told not to or something. 

Going overboard to be politically correct, while exchanging liberty for “security”.

All I can do is shake my head and wonder what happened to us.

- Ed


> On Sep 16, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Richard E. Crislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:36:52 -0700
> "K. Pruitt" <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
>> So we have kid here who is a budding electronics wizard. He builds a 
>> homemade clock, takes it to school and get arrested.
>> 
>> http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> This is why profiling and broad sweeping judgments can have nasty
> consequences. The gut reaction to bad things is to profile, but this
> will always happen as a result. At the same time, I deeply resent my 90
> year old mother (blond, now white haired) being strip searched by TSA
> when she wants to fly to my home to visit with me because she did not
> bring luggage to avoid paying the BS charges for that. She has clothing
> here. I am not smart enough to articulate an adequate solution.
> 
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