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In reply to the discussion: Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement? [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)65. Careful. You're going to run afoul of the 2nd Amendment.......
supporters around here. Why should they not have throwing stars? Or even guns? Apparently weaponry is legal in the USA. Or are you saying that weaponry is legal for everybody, BUT protesters?
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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