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In reply to the discussion: Another young kid trapped into acting as a terrorist by the FBI [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Almost without fail, these "terrorists" that they catch are very young, very unrealistic, and are without actual Al-Queda people to help them. In fact, while these "terrorists" are SUPPOSEDLY going about trying to FIND someone from a terrorist organization to help them, they run into these FBI "facilitators" who take them right up to the wire, suggest blowing up this edifice, or that bridge, or something, and even supply them with the (albeit fake) hardware to do it.
Look up the Liberty City Seven. Same shit happened with them. Many of them were acquitted. "Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation John S. Pistole described the group's plot as more "aspirational than operational"; the group did not have the means to carry out attacks on such targets. The group had no weapons and did not seek weapons when they were offered. The group had no communication with any actual al-Qaeda or other terrorist operatives."
Same thing with the Occupy Wall Street "terrorists" in Cleveland. "Taking a closer look at the federal complaint against the five men reveals that although the suspects are believed to have expressed anti-government sentiments and disdain for major financial corporations, the impetus in the would-be bombing was the urging of undercover agents that had infiltrated a group of friends and encouraged them to consider acts of terrorism. Although the incident is still developing, federal authorities have submitted statements and recordings stemming from conversations their contacts had with the alleged terrorists, and unsurprisingly the mainstream media is largely ignoring one key problem with the federal probe: the FBI provoked members of an Occupy Wall Street off-shoot to embrace terrorist-like crimes despite voicing from the start that they were opposed to such."