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In reply to the discussion: FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And it wasn't just "bad thoughts". It was actively choosing to press a button, repeatedly, that he completely believed was going to leave a crowd full of people "torn, dead and injured". A crowd that could have very easily included my own wife and kids.
So fuck him, and I apologize (no, actually I don't) if I don't get all weepy over his being "railroaded". He had tons of opportunities to back out. This isn't like the cases where poor people with few prospects were offered mass sums of money to do bad shit; that, I understand, implies some profoundly questionable Law Enforcement practices.
Not this case. This kid wanted to do something horrible, he positively reveled in the thought that he was about to do something horrible, right up until the moment the bomb didn't go off.... and he must have realized he was fucked.