Using power and control to get what they want isn’t the same thing as what they want being power and control.

While I agree that rape and sex are fundamentally different, the whole “rape is always about power and control, and never about sexual desire” thing that has been accepted as a truism really goes too far.

Which means that that level of payout probably results in a tangible increase to the school district’s annual insurance costs, which results in the district having to make at least some educational programming cuts, which results in irreparable damage to the rest of the students in the district, who then sue for their…

You obviously haven't read the entire story regarding this kid and his family because of you had you would be saying the opposite. And this is coming from someone that can't stand right wing nut jobs from Texas.

I’m sorry the point went over your head. I used ransom because of the strict timeline and the threat to do something unless they get what they want and using the media to draw attention to their cause to get that thing they want. Of course, that should have been obvious but you’re clearly feeling argumentative.

I'm aware how it all works, thanks. But this is not generally how it's done. And also, it won't work. It can't work. A city wouldn't even entertain it. It's silly.

He was not thrown out of school. But facts don’t matter when you’re so emotional about the percieved“injustice” huh?

This. I would give my left nut for all the shit this kid got out of being questioned by the police for a few hours. He’s been rewarded enough already.

Physical and mental anguish? It thought he had offers from magnet schools across the country and that they were even moving to Qatar or somewhere to go to a special engineering school free of charge?

Yeah! Bankrupt the school district! Down with schools!

I’m starting to think you’re a troll, Sqarr, and I don’t remember you being one.

He is not “all Muslim people.” He is one person, in one tiny school district, in one tiny police district.

It has to, but that’s nowhere near 15 mil. Why not 45 mil while we’re at it, why not 6 billion? It’s ridiculous.

An attorney for the Mohamed family promised [to] take civil action if their money and apologies don’t show up within 60 days.

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

he won’t, and now the kid looks like a money-grubbing asshat.

If anyone cared to learn the whole story, like how he was told to put the clock away several times and was defiant (which is when the office was finally called), or how he literalty ONLY took the top and bottom cover off a walmart clock (did not make or assemble ANYTHINH), theyd know this was a PR stunt from the very…

I don’t know. I think these days, a Kony 2012 Tshirt would be amazing to wear.

I am starting to feel this way, too. It’s looking more and more like a circus/money grab by his father.

I feel like this kid is Kony 2012ing us

i might be wrong

but i already learned my lesson and have an embarrasing tshirt that I’ll never wear in public so