An interesting tidbit from the NY Post:

A Manhattan photographer was the first person to find the second explosive device in Chelsea on Saturday night — and almost didn’t report the contraption to cops because she thought it was a kiddie science project, she told The Post on Sunday.
“I had just taken maybe 15 steps from my front door, and I saw a pot on the side of the road,” Jane Schreibman said. “It looked weird, and I thought it was a kid’s science experiment, with wires coming out of the pressure cooker every which way. I thought someone was throwing it out.”

Huh. You know what else straddled the “science project” line?

That’s a different Ahmed, of course: Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager who leveraged a dismembered clock into global fame (and, pending, a healthy payday). As no one will soon forget, when a teacher reported Mohamed to higher-ups on the suspicion that his “clock” looked alarmingly explosive-like, the teacher and principal and school district and police department and City of Irving and State of Texas et al. spent the next several days getting browbeaten as racists and Islamophobes.

Meanwhile, the same federal government that wagged its finger at Mohamed’s detractors is applauding Jan Schreibman as the poster child for its “See Something, Say Something” campaign. President Obama even reiterated the importance of the practice on Monday: “I want to repeat what we’ve said before: if you see something suspicious, then you need to say something.”

In other words, the Obama administration wants it both ways: See something, say something, unless the person you’re seeing looks like X. The result is San Bernardino:

A California woman reportedly noticed “suspicious activity” at a house connected one of the Muslim terrorists in the San Bernardino massacre but did want “profile” him, amid questions about how family members and others could have overlooked the stockpile of ammunition and explosives left behind in his home.

That’s what happens when you spend eight years making it so that the only thing that separates a vigilant patriot from a racist is whether his tip pans out. What reasonable person would take those odds? Not many.

Ms. Schreibman deserves New Yorkers’ gratitude. She saw something suspicious, she reported it, she may well have saved lives. But if she had seen Ahmad Rahami plant the bomb, would she have made the same call? At this point, you have to wonder.