The narrative that it's somehow ok to arrest somebody simply because the FBI got a "tip" from a Best Buy employee who was paid by the FBI to conduct surveillance. After all, it's all for the children. Never mind they're violating civil rights and the Constitution in the process./div>
No, it's not stupid. I'ts pretty smart actually. By pulling off this crap, the FBI is washing it hands of any liability. They can say "we didn't do it" and blame it on Best Buy. At least they won't be blaming YouTube or the Russians like Obama, Hillary and their thugs./div>
"Thus they actually ARE guilty under the "criminal attempt" laws."
Meh, I thought only a judge or jury could determine guilt after due process which includes providing valid and legal evidence. Thank God we have you to make that call./div>
If you read the article, you'll see the GS squad didn't just "come across" the pr0n stuff (if indeed it is that) but actually looked for the entire contents of all partitions. The guy effectively scanned every segment of all partitions "looking" for his $500. When he didn't find it, he planted it there.
The accused in this article would be the first pedophile in history who's ever downloaded one single kiddie pr0n file. This is all a sham./div>
By the same token, who's to say it's FBI agents themselves working at Best Buy pretending to be informants. Remember: these are the same g00ns who engaged in illegal weapon trafficking just so they could write an anti-gun narrative (Fast and Furious)./div>
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This case is already dead in a court of law. Best Buy just lost millions of customers./div>
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You snowflakes really need to come up with new cliches. Go get new talking points on MSNBC./div>
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Meh, I thought only a judge or jury could determine guilt after due process which includes providing valid and legal evidence. Thank God we have you to make that call./div>
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The accused in this article would be the first pedophile in history who's ever downloaded one single kiddie pr0n file. This is all a sham./div>
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It's funny that nobody has raised the following problem with his BS story:
Anyone who has ever downloaded an mp3, movie or legal pr0n has never downloaded just one file. All the contrary, most users downloads tons of it.
The guy being trapped by the FBI here would be the first kiddie pr0n addict who ever downloaded only one file to satisfy his impulses, LOL.
This is Gruber stuff for the crowd who truly believe a YouTube video caused a terrorist attack./div>
Re: On the books vs In practice
Not for the purposes of preserving law and order, it's not legal to lie to a judge. It's been allowed to happen. That doesn't make it legal./div>
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