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Going by the FBI's history, the kid likely suffers from some kind of mental issue and the FBI were every other person in the chat room convincing him to attack
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
Going by the FBI's history, the kid likely suffers from some kind of mental issue and the FBI were every other person in the chat room convincing him to attack while providing explosives.
- abellerose 6y agoYah that part of how the FBI handles these situations has always made me really upset. The FBI's main task should be isolating an unstable kid from interacting with disturbing chat rooms and first see if the kid's mentality will fizzles out after some time away from it. Instead they basically nurture the messed up mentality of the kid and until they can go ahead with charging the kid while it likely could've been prevented if the messed up mentality wasn't nurtured.
- 082349872349872 6y agoI'll wait for the affidavits in this case before commenting further, but the FBI has learned something in the last 60 years. The last set of affidavits I read was the reverse of O'Brien and Smith in 1984[1]: the FBI resources kept reminding the suspects they were supposedly from Hamas, and asked the suspects open-endedly what projects they could help with, rather than prompting specifically. [1] TL;DR if a member of the Inner Party asks if you are willing to kill innocents and throw acid in children's faces, please don't say "yes".
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>but the FBI has learned something in the last 60 years. They have learned to entrap people without legally being considered entrapment. Not what I'd consider a good skill for them to have.