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The FBI is continuing to entrap hapless petty criminals into "domestic terror" schemes and then arresting them. Here's them doing it for Muslim terrorists:http
by Amezarak 3y ago
The FBI is continuing to entrap hapless petty criminals into "domestic terror" schemes and then arresting them.
Here's them doing it for Muslim terrorists:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/newburgh-four-released-fbi https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/newburgh-fou...
And here's them doing it to "right-wingers":
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant?utm_source=digg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-k...
> Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them. [...] A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one another and the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come.
What do you call this if not overzealous? It's the same old playbook over and over again: the FBI pays people to go out and recruit terrorists, invents terror plots for them, offers to supply them with weapons and explosives, dares and nags them to commit felonies, then swoops in and arrests them when they make motions in that direction.
There are plenty of other examples, if you want to go on. What I don't understand is why anyone defends an institution that has been grossly corrupt continuously from its inception.