Ahmed, Clocks, CPS, and the Police State School System

My dear friend Beverly Tran just wrote a short but an insightful piece entitled Ahmed, Clocks and CPS, where she discusses the incident in a Texas school where Ahmed Mohamed, a student who happens to be Muslim, was arrested for making a clock that looked like a fake bomb.

Ms Tran is blaming current child welfare laws, specifically the schools responsibility to report child abuse, as the primary cause of the incident.  While she is partially correct, in that there is an apparent merger between the modern school system and the Child Protective Industry which essentially brings CPS agents into the regular lives of more children especially in targeted populations such as racial groups, big cities or poverty stricken areas, I need to remind you that we are still living in the Columbine - 9/11 , media created Boogie Man era of Zero Tolerance policies.  Where schools resemble prisons including armed guards and metal detectors... Where a kid can't even take a bite out of a Pop Tart or point his finger at another kid the wrong way without getting suspended.... And where kids are drugged for being kids.  Therefore I agree with Ms. Tran that this has absolutely nothing to do with religion, just not for the same reasons.

The mayor is defending the police action against this kid as would I considering that we live in a world run by idiots.  They simply don't know any better.  It's what they do.  On top of that, we have had very real school shootings, and very real bomb threats that usually turn up nothing, but one of these days it will so they have to keep everybody safe.  That said, this kid didn't deserve to be dragged out of school in handcuffs just because some asshole thought his home made clock resembled a fake bomb.  It's horrible that a child can now be punished for having a brain or an imagination no matter what is race or religion, especially when the average kid is liable to have seen 200,000 acts of violence on TV by the time he turns 18.  I mean how would a kid even know what a fake bomb looked like?

Unfortunately, the Police State School System is set up with the dual purpose of keeping an eye on parents.  School reports to CPS often result in child welfare checks.  Child welfare checks often result in finding things such as drugs or meth labs among other things.

Or perhaps this is simply a reflection of a new British law aimed at rooting out Muslim radicalism in the UK. Teachers are required to report extremest type beliefs.  Whatever that means.  

No matter.  I totally support this kid.  I hope his parents sues the pants off these people.