DR: Perhaps you are wrapped up in the same mentality and can't see the wood for the trees.
Whereas I would say that you are missing the seriousness of what the school did.
I don't think so. I would think protecting your school against terrorist acts is a serious responsibility.
DR: $15m. is not a punishment. It is money grabbing by lawyers. It is people wanting to make a fast buck from someone else's mistake.
Sure is too bad the school didn't think of that earlier.
This proves that you agree it is vindictive and money grabbing and that you support that.
DR: Now, if I were the school, I would threaten that if the suit succeeds they would automatically close down.
This is a public school (government owned and run). They can't do that. It would literally take an act of legislation, and doing so would probably be illegal.
Don't be ridiculous. The school is not run by the government. It is run by the school managers and teachers. You are so ready to invoke the law when something doesn't suit you as if this justifies everything. You are the reason why lawyers make so much money.
DR: Because no one can be punished to that extent for such an offense.
Why not? What are your rights worth, and for how much would you sell them?
You demean the rights ordinary people have by your vindictiveness. Rights are not about how much you can get when someone makes a mistake.
The school isn't going to close, that's just a non-starter. But clearly there isn't enough incentive for the schools in Texas to treat their Muslim students with fairness and humanity, which seems to be a problem that can only be corrected by an effective penalty.
This statement is very telling. What you are really doing is seeking to punish one school for the crimes that other schools only might have committed or might commit in the future. You just love it when people are punished for things you dislike, don't you? And you think that $15m is going to cause people to change. You think it is about money. I can assure you, it is not. When your life is at risk, you are not going to be all that bothered by the money. Things will change not when a lawsuit is filed but when Muslims prove they are peace-loving. And that ain't gonna happen any time soon. And you can say all you like that you can't tar all Muslims with the same brush because that doesn't cut it when your life and your society are under threat. It is no argument
post hoc, that the boy didn't have a bomb. I agree with A4T, I bet there will be some interesting facts revealed about the family if it goes to court. They have now moved to Qatar, one of the world's most terrorism financing countries in the world. Perhaps that's where they feel most at home?
