Stick to audio, Marv. That's a subject on which you have some semblance of a clue.If this is your America, I want no fucking part of it.

Unfortunately, the USA is in a bit of a quagmire in terms of school violence and terrorism. Whether the response to these threats is too knee-jerk paranoid or not is wholly another discussion. In the attempts to mitigate the risks of these threats, mistakes against the individual will definitely be made. It's never black or white. You gain some, your lose some.

If you really want no part of it, move to Canada.

I mean this in the most sincere way. Obviously there are many things that trouble you in the USA. I have lived in Canada. I think you will like it. No violence, safe at night, more liberal tilt, additional categories of LBGT with a q, universal health care, great educational system, less pollution, lots of museums, excellent transportation system, anti-war sentiment, terrorists don't care about killing Canadians, bums in Toronto are super polite and sort of well dressed, etc.

Before leaving on plane trip to Taiwan, I had to sit down with my kids to tell them to not talk about bombs in the airport. Of course kids being kids, they had to ask "But why?"

We started at 9/11, went back in time, and stopped around Lawrence of Arabia. We will eventually make it Kingdom of Heaven, and maybe even to Ben-Hur or farther back.

P.S. Before the Internet, there were these things called BBS's in the 80s. Lots of guides on how to build bombs or commit credit card fraud.

I've never seen a bomb, and I hope I never do, but if I ever do, and I get to register anything before the final big flash in my life, I doubt very much that it will have a digital display, wires hanging out of it ...

Why? Surely real bomb makers don't make something that looks so obviously like a bomb? oh-my-god-its-got-wires: Is that the limit of modern inteligence and observation? Or just the extent, coupled with certain appearnacnces, skin colours, and names, of modern bigotry?

Are you completely nutz? So if you see something that looks like a bomb, you'll ignore it because it's too obvious just so you can preserve your skewed sense of racial egalitarianism? See, this is the result of political correctness. Trading lives for "feelings". What an utterly stupid thing. I wish there was a better word but there simply isn't.

You want to know what some of the parts of a bomb can look like? Let me show you. These are my own pics from a trip abroad. I'm not going to show everything for obvious reasons. Suffice to say it was designed to blow up much much more than a classroom.

I going to keep repeating this until you guys get it. The teachers HAVE NO CHOICE because of their security training and security policies and procedures. If they see wires, or freak-out because they imagined they saw wires, they call the cops.

OK. I got it. Like a lot of the stuff that we go through at airports it may be bullshit, but if that if is the rules, regulations, procedures, enforced this that and the other, then I cannot blame the individuals. I acknowledge that they have to be able to tick the boxes.  And no, if something goes wrong, especially in the area of child safety, I wouldn't want to be the guy with an unticked box on the list.

No, I just made it up obviously. BBC News must be failing you.

Yes, indeed, the BBC often fails me. I've almost given up on its website as a source of international news, and completely given up on it as a sort-of-link to the country I used to live in. As to news about the country I do live in, it's coverage is regularly ignorant, condescending and crap.

Because of where I live, if you say "Islam," or "Muslim," to me, I do not immediately think of Arabs or the Middle East: I think of the people across the road, or the guy who repairs our AC machines. It may be a different kind of bias, but it does help me not to think of Islam as being automatically Arab. Don't they come in different colours where you live?

Also because of where I live, and because I had a lot to do with members of another South-Asian-origin community before I came here, I am very familiar with obsessive, high-pressure parents who give their children no alternative than to overachieve. Sure, I'd be wrong to say that that is exclusively S. Asian, but hey, I've known a few. I cannot see, though, even under that heading, that your theory holds water. It's too far fetched. And Too dangerous: what if the kid got shot?

Are you completely nutz? So if you see something that looks like a bomb, you'll ignore it because it's too obvious just so you can preserve your skewed sense of racial egalitarianism? See, this is the result of political correctness. Trading lives for "feelings". What an utterly stupid thing. I wish there was a better word but there simply isn't.

No I am not completely nutz. so... what does a bomb look like, and what does it not look like?

I tell you one thing, though: If I ever thought that I was seeing a bomb, I wouldn't pause to take note of races/religions. Which is why the rest of the quote is nonsense.