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>"He had [a] long-standing fixation on ISIS. He had expressed a desire to carry out a violent act. He expressed the desire to carry out a school shooting. He wa
by underlipton 3y ago
>"He had [a] long-standing fixation on ISIS. He had expressed a desire to carry out a violent act. He expressed the desire to carry out a school shooting. He was researching material on how to build a bomb, he was engaging with like-minded individuals," the deputy commissioner said.
Even every other mitigating circumstance aside, he was 13.
I'm glad to hear that the Australian court system took the right tack with this case, though. As an American, I'm aware of far too many instances where law enforcement entrapped and then threw the book at a teenager. Grown men and women who treat youths like this should be profoundly ashamed of themselves. Just to build a career? Monsters.
- soraminazuki 3y agoIt's disgusting how the same system that exploits vulnerable children for career growth also constantly invokes the "think of the children" fallacy in an attempt to promote invasive mass surveillance and deny the public access to secure encryption technologies.