says his 15 minutes are up.

And that perhaps he and his family are nothing but grifters.

Your home-made clock appears to contain a rather effective and efficient factory-made bias built into it. One may go so far as to wonder if that's a feature or merely a bug...

the story was sort of sketchy to begin with. Add to the fact that the family has since abruptly relocated to the UAE.

How much extra for the echo?

lol!

Do you know anything about this case at all?? This child built a clock, and then got harassed by school officials to the point where he ended up in handcuffs. He deserves whatever he gets.

you have an important point there don't ya?

to share what you think that point might be? Would you be so kind as to do so?

And does that make everything else okay?

not as a bomb, and he was arrested for building it.

And they shouldn't have arrested him for it.

People can't seem to get that straight.

how easy or complicated it was for him to put the parts together to make the clock.

He showed it to his teacher. She knew it was a clock. Everyone knew it was a clock. And yet they decided to charge him with making a fake bomb.

What reason do you have for repeating shitty right-wing bullshit about this kid? Does that justify the overkill by the cops and the racism of the teachers.

NEWSFLASH: It's about the racism, stupid.

and yet they decided to charge him with a BOMB HOAX.

He never claimed it was a bomb.
It can't be a bomb hoax if he never pretended it was a bomb.

What did Ahmed do, later in the day he plugs his clock into 110 ac power and sets the alarm
so it starts beeping interrupting the class.

The kid is playing a game

time to teach those a-holes a lesson.

says you are indulging in rank speculation with exactly zero evidence outside of your own prejudice.

I hope he gets it!

People falsely put in jail for dacades don't get that much in most cases. I'd say 10,000 max.

Both sides decide on.

Now they want millions because "Ahmed's reputation in the global community is permanently scarred,"

They won't do that, will they.

I'm not sure it's worth $15 Million, but I do believe this exposure has damaged his future globally, and unfairly.

I don't think he needs 15 million to "become whole."

It has from the beginning.

Balloon Boy. Thanks for the bit of nostalgia.

But something cooked up for sure

I have no doubt that who he is and what he looks like played a part in this, but I'm also very certain this was a troll to that end. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

I wonder if MIT and Stanford figured out he wasn't as bright at electronics as he was at grifting?

What happened to Ahmed was grossly unfair and awful, but so many good things came of it--scholarship offers, a trip to the White House, a huge outpouring of support.

... And now they're asking for $15 million for the kind of thing that probably happens to non-science-y students of Middle Eastern descent all the time. It does leave a little bit of a bad taste in the mouth. Their lives have been disrupted so they deserve some compensation, but that's a huge overreach IMHO.

Who is accused of participating in genocide in the Dafur conflict.

I don't know what sort of physical suffering he and his family went thru,

But genocide? ain't nothing worse than that

Wanted for war crimes in connection with the genocide committed in Darfur. I washed my hands of this kid and his grifter family after that meeting.

Doesn't matter if he meets with dictators, sues a school district, or moves to a place where women are second class citizens. All that matters to many here is that Republicans don't like him.

read all the comments before yours before you decided to tag DU as being filled with reactionary imbeciles. There are plenty of people who see this an entirely different way than what you're saying. If you're going to make a blanket statement like that, be sure you're right next time.

I should have said that some here on DU will love him as long as Republicans hate him.

who just happen to disagree with you on this topic.

The negative publicity alone to the school and officials is priceless, tho. They committed huge over reach.

The kid was treated unfairly. But suing the school system doesn't accomplish anything positive. If he'd been thrown out of a restaurant or something, I'd be fine with taking legal action. Obviously, the school system's actions were wrong, but I assume they really thought they were protecting kids. If it is found he was singled out as a Muslim, I'd multiply the damages sought by a factor of 10, and fire anyone involved.

The police officers and school staff will still be collecting paychecks.

Greed, it's a wonderful thing

....what do you think TSA would do regardless of your skin color?

Take a guess.

I don't blame the english teacher. He showed it to his science teacher earlier in the day, who wasn't impressed and he told him to put it away. Instead he brought it to english class plugged it in, and had the alarm go off during class.

For me this interview, with the dallas morning news, helped me decide his mindset. He says two things, that he invents stuff and he points to a commercial made in china USB controller, the second which I think would play well in front of a court for the city, is his comment at 1:28 in the video.

"I closed it with a cable, cause I didn't want to lock it and make it seem like a threat. So I just used a simple cable so it wouldn't look that much suspicious."

His sister also got in trouble for a "bomb hoax/threat" (a separaye incident which occurred previous to this one). C'mon,, what are the odds?

This is the first I've heard this

After the MSNBC segment, Eyman and I sit down in the hallway where she says the same thing happened to her as Ahmed.

“I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with.”

Eyman talks with the slightest lisp, almost imperceptible, but it becomes stronger as she gets emotional.

“I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous, I’m kinda like—it’s like he’s standing for me.”

Eyman said her suspension was in her first year of middle school, “my first year of attempting middle school in America. I knew English, but the culture was different, the people were different.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/man-i-went-viral-my-day-with-ahmed-moahmed-the-most-famous-boy-on-earth.html