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Entrapping impressionable people who otherwise have no history of terrorism, let alone a criminal record, has become the go-to weapon for the FBI. Virtually all
by Abid 16y ago
Entrapping impressionable people who otherwise have no history of terrorism, let alone a criminal record, has become the go-to weapon for the FBI. Virtually all other terrorism-related arrests made in this country since 9/11 have been made using this tactic.
Serves the FBI right for A) Ruining innocent people's lives, and B) Screwing over the very community that they claim to be partners with.
- pyre 16y agoIn the case of the recent Oregon terrorist, supposedly he was trying (and failing) to get into contact with terrorists because he wanted to 'go radical.' The FBI (supposedly) just stepped in pretending to be terrorists and provided him with the rope to hang himself. I still think that there is a moral line that is crossed here though. One of my co-workers mentioned it like this: If someone was a threat to himself or others, they would be sent to the psych ward and medicated. If someone is a threat to masses of people, the FBI tries to help them make an attempt at killing people, then send them to jail for it. When someone is still at the 'talking' stage, even when they seem to have made up their mind, it becomes morally ambiguous to help them attempt to commit a crime, then arrest them for attempting to commit that crime.