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In unrelated news the FBI gave a kid a drone, what he thought was a bomb, a list of targets, and twisted his arm for 6 months before he finally agreed to carry out "his" attack
I'm sure this guy's a piece of shit, but I also assume this is what really happened every time the FBI "catches" one of these.
Wow what an insanely ignorant assumption to make "every time"
Eh... It's happened enough times I think it should be a standard assumption until we know for sure... Could be you or someone you care about being entrapped one-day
Let me take a different angle: good, the FBI found someone who is both stupid and willing to be stupid against other people. You know who doesn't blow up infrastructure? Literally every sane person. The FBI did a service by catching this far right terrorist. The terrorist was stupid to accept flying bombs and then broadcast their intent to do stupid shit. They deserve to be arrested. The FBI can't make a person act stupid, they just lay out the tools and let the idiots hurt themselves.
To be clear...I have no idea if the FBI entrapped this particular guy or actually caught him
But also if I know I'm dealing with mentally handicapped level of stupid, I'm not trying to trick them into doing something I can arrest them for, I'm trying to get them services and help. Again, this guy might have planned all this on his own without the FBI tricking him, in which case go ahead and throw the book at him
They don't need to invent crimes. There's plenty of stupid and crazy people out there as is.
You would think, and yet, they do it a lot
I knew a guy who was friends with a bunch of muslim assholes who ended up in prison for planning a terrorist attack.
He kept arguing that the FBI informant encouraged them and it wasn't their fault.
My counter was: if the FBI sent someone to me talking about doing a terrorist attack in order to "catch" me, it wouldn't work because I'd report the guy to the police. You know, because I'm not a terrorist.
I also suggested if they were dumb enough to be caught by the FBIs nefarious plot (while being in the country illegally), then they were really too stupid to live and they were probably better off in prison having someone else do their thinking for them.
Jackasses like them are fucking things up for all the other undocumented immigrants who just want to do jobs we don't want for slave wages.
Honestly, I might have had more sympathy for them if they had someone sympathetic to argue their side. The guy I knew was a pain in the ass.
Entrapment exists because people need a legal defense against law enforcement getting them to do a crime.
Yeah... Sound dumb as rocks... But I still think these FBI entrapment cases are a waste of time and energy... Like, either catch people who are actually planning shit or find something useful to do... Turning someone who's clearly dumb and vulnerable into a terrorist just so you can "catch" them is just such a waste of everyone's time and resources.
I agree. Most of the security theater is a complete waste, or worse, an effort to numb us to the ever-increasing destruction of our rights.