More People Realizing That The FBI's 'Big Wins' Are In Stopping Its Own Made Up Terror Plots
from the playing-at-cops-and-robbers dept
We've pointed out, more than a few times, that it seems like so many of the big "terrorist plots" that the FBI has been "breaking up" (to tremendous fanfare and press coverage) really appear to be the FBI's own terror plots. It appears we're not alone in that assessment. The Guardian recently had an excellent article highlighting these same concerns:Critics say the FBI is running a sting operation across America, targeting – to a large extent – the Muslim community by luring people into fake terror plots. FBI bureaux send informants to trawl through Muslim communities, hang out in mosques and community centres, and talk of radical Islam in order to identify possible targets sympathetic to such ideals. Or they will respond to the most bizarre of tip-offs, including, in one case, a man who claimed to have seen terror chief Ayman al-Zawahiri living in northern California in the late 1990s.While we always get attacked whenever we use the word "entrapment" to describe these kinds of cases, it appears that at least some of the folks charged in these cases are going to try to claim entrapment in court. It may be tough to find a sympathetic court, considering many of those involved did effectively say they would take part in an attack. But if every part of it was orchestrated and paid for by the FBI... then the whole operation seems questionable. The real issue is why this is a tactic the FBI uses. It's almost as if they feel the need to "create" fake plots to stop just to justify their existence (and very, very large budget).
That tipster was quickly hired as a well-paid informant. If suitable suspects are identified, FBI agents then run a sting, often creating a fake terror plot in which it helps supply weapons and targets. Then, dramatic arrests are made, press conferences held and lengthy convictions secured.
But what is not clear is if many real, actual terrorists are involved.
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Then that's pretty much the definition of entrapment.
"The act of government agents or officials that induces a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit."
Going down to Crack Avenue in ragged jeans and asking to buy a rock is not, however, entrapment. Offering to finance a distribution network and seeing who you can get to join you gang is. See John Delorean. "Without the government, there would be no crime."
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I guess we'll need to coin a new one about how every terrorist is actually an FBI agent trying to catch terrorists.
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To say the FBI was manufacturing terrorist threats outside the USA is silly, that's the CIA's job!
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It's trollish. ;)
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Possible Rationale
"If this person has the will to be a terrorist, but lacks the means, they are still a terrorist."
So, by that logic, they need to identify the people who might have the will, then provide the means as a test, and do it before a real terror financier comes around.
I find this to be complete and utter horseshit of course, but I think that's the core of how these operations will be defended by those who believe in them.
Essentially they are turning terrorism into a crime of opportunity by taking away all the logistical complexities.
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While someone might want to do X, and they might even get or have means to do X, they are more likely to do X if their "friends" are in favor of it and are helping.
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Just because I lack the means and skill to do so is... irrelevant I guess.
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"If this person has the will to be bribed, but lacks the means, they are still a congresscritter."
They want to mostly keep people scared of the boogeyman at any cost to avoid the tough questions of why someone with a weekend training course is now qualified to feel up children at the airport.
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I've got the will to be a mega rich superstar, I just need about 5 Million dollars, a big bag of coke, and some high class hookers... I'm ready, I just need a government agency to help prove I'm a mega rich superstar in hiding....
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That might not be the original intent, but FBI agents need successful operations to build their careers.
There seems to be a strong incentive to build a career on the suffering and naivete of young Muslim men.
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Correction, for many of these "plots" they "foil" there is only one person arrested. Meaning the "terrorist" group was the FBI and they recruited a new member, then arrested him. Sometimes they manage to find two people who didn't know each other before the FBI introduced them and then they arrest both of them for plotting. Very very rarely do these plots involve a group of angry people who the FBI infiltrates.
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It's not fair but...
I know what they are doing is entrapment:
"In criminal law, entrapment is conduct by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit."
However that's been the FBI's operational strategy for decades.
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He will save us all from ManBearPig
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They need it
And to be completely honest, only terrorist I've ever seen have been wearing a badge with a gun or four, kicking in some poor saps door right before firing 500 rounds into the room before looking. Or maybe it was shooting some sucker in the back while handcuffed and laying face down on the concrete. But what do I know, I must be one of those liberty loving, gun totting, anti-big government domestic terrorists we've all been hearing about as of late.
Thomas Jefferson = terrorist
George Washington = terrorist
YOU = terrorist (don't make us suicide or disappear you for speaking out)
Land of the FEE, home of the SLAVE!
Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER!
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Z-Files
These are the same people who fired on women and children fleeing a burning building in Waco, Texas. The same people who shot an infant and mother in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. And who also managed to find an undamaged passport in the WTC wreckage which just happened to support the theory of radical muslims having committed these acts.
There are two FBI agents who I have any respect for. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. And even then, they're Hollywood FBI.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAFJAsfCnY&
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oexZtAQ2Y mU&
Dont worry, I have enough tin foil to go around.
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Really people?
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Like Granny said: Never trust a Lawyer, Police Office or a Politician. They all lie for a living.
Words to live by.
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Careful
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USA Fake plots
Since Sept. 11, 2001 I had learned that we can not trust and/or believe not body, even our mothers can make fake stories to get some catch from their children. So why fort we should believe the FBI or any politician?
The Iraq was a make believe com-plot again Husein and now they have another against Iran. With the Idea of justifying another unnecessary genocide war.
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First rule of Police State... don't talk about Police State.
Second rule of Police State... If someone talks about Police State, disappear them.
Third rule of Police State... Not needed, all problems solved by the first two rules.
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