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In reply to the discussion: Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement? [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)11. Well said. Thanks for saying it so clearly and forcefully.
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Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement? [View all]
Fire Walk With Me
May 2012
OP
Don't you question the assumption that these were legitimate Occupy protesters?
lunatica
May 2012
#10
Domestic security forces are ever and always engaged in discrediting political protest movements
HiPointDem
May 2012
#6
What kind of mush-headed moron can be "entrapped" into plotting mass-murder?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2012
#7
Entrapment is usually a process of inducement that involves the provocateur taking over a group and
leveymg
May 2012
#9
"Clean the gene pool" to which I responded is a dog whistle for genocide\eugenics. I'll risk the
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#37
There are a number of problems w/DHS and agency "stings" against political groups that go beyond any
leveymg
May 2012
#18
We don't even know whose idea it was to make molotovs. That's the only overt criminal act
leveymg
May 2012
#22
No. Read the charging document pp2-3 that describes the act. They poured gas into beer bottles,
leveymg
May 2012
#33
Possessing Ninja throwing stars isn't exactly overt proof of "terrorism" either.
leveymg
May 2012
#46
Three guys who embarrassed the police on Utube just weeks before they became 'suspects'.
sabrina 1
May 2012
#77
Who owned those weapons, and how long were they present in the apartment? Do you know?
sabrina 1
May 2012
#76
Um, the FBI is currently run by a long time Bush fixer, the same guy who botched the Amerithrax case
EFerrari
May 2012
#23
Your argument seems to boil down to when "we" run the show, it's ok, and who cares about the
leveymg
May 2012
#31
Never said that was a protected activity. My beef is with inducement to the act, and the charges
leveymg
May 2012
#42
Oh yeah. Easy to forget because we want to believe our government is
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#41
You're not going to see any such evidence, the 'proof' is the FBI's sordid past it seems n/t
Bodhi BloodWave
May 2012
#47
Nobody said the FBI is ALWAYS in the wrong so build your straw houses a little more carefully
TBF
May 2012
#49
There is another thread on DU today talking about another action they took, nothing to do with OWS
sabrina 1
May 2012
#67
I don't see anyone claiming them. What I see is a perfectly legitimate demand
sabrina 1
May 2012
#70
Legitimate dissent, one person one vote. When these are in peril, America is in peril.
Gregorian
May 2012
#57