Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Richard Dawkins on Twitter rows and Islamophobia" video.

Dobro Doggie I challenge you to take the insides out of a clock and put it inside a case and walk into an airport with this case and start showing people your handiwork. I'll bet that you won't do it. I'd have to wonder why and I'll bet you could answer why YOU wouldn't do it. You know full well that people might mistake if for a bomb and that you would be subject to serious repercussions at the hands of airport security and the law. American schools have been the victims of school shootings and it would be prudent for any student to refrain from bringing anything that looked dangerous to a school. Small children have been expelled for forming a pistol with their fingers and pretending to shoot fellow students. Why would a 14 year old do what this kid did? What did he think it was that he had invented. A new clock? Even after he was told to put it away, he insisted on carrying it to other classes, that had nothing to do with his "science" project and continue to show it off. I'm not going to say it was a conspiracy but I have to wonder what his motive was. One thing is certain, that project did not deserve a trip to the Whitehouse and it became a media circus only because the media wanted to create that controversy.
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Dobro Doggie Just in case you're wondering, here are some winning high school projects in Canada. Notice the high calibre of science and the depth of the projects. https://cwsf.youthscience.ca/sites/default/files/2017_cwsf_awards_en.pdf Oh yeah, that clock boy was one smart kid. If he's the best the US had to offer in their high school science classes, the US is failing it's students, badly.
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Dobro Doggie You honestly believe that if you walked into an airport and displayed a digital clock inside a case like the one this kid had, you wouldn't have airport security all over you. You're just being intentionally obtuse. He unscrewed 5 or 6 screws to loosen up the insides of a digital clock and then screwed it back into the insides of enlarged pencil and notebook leather type case. Now that took some read genius. That's not a science project and normally he wouldn't get anymore than a C for his efforts. You know as well as anyone and don't pretend that you don't that students have been bringing weapons into American schools and killing kids. There have been talks of pipe bombs in Columbine and he made something that resembled a countdown clock for a bomb. Kids are being expelled for pretending to shoot others with their fingers and this kid makes what could be mistaken for a bomb. I don't know why he did it but I don't really know why Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people and wounded 24 more, either. People get nervous when kids start pretending to have guns and if a kid brings a contraption that might be mistaken for a bomb to school, someone will get upset, rightly or wrongly. It happens all over the US and students are dealt with harshly when they do stupid stunts like that. Klebold and Harris were one 1 year older that this kid. One year....so don't pretend that it's impossible. I'm not sure what you're rambling on about concerning public and private schools. I showed you this link to show you what kinds of real projects high school kids were doing and they are in a different stratosphere of ability and effort over some kid moving the guts of a clock from one container to another. He was told to put it away and he wouldn't. Why....who knows but he finally got called on it and it was because the teachers felt that it strongly resembled a clock mechanism for a bomb. It was the media that made a big deal of it and they're as much to blame for this stupidity, actually a lot more, as this kid is. And Obama actually added to the foolishness by pretending that this was an outstanding science project. It was a joke and the projects that I showed that other high school kids did proves it.
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That interviewer wanted to get away from the clock boy topic in a big hurry. I'm sure he didn't want to hear what Dawkins had to say on that. Comical in that it was so obvious.
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