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akatechis | 5 years ago

This reads like all the other "white supremacist" plots. A group of FBI agents, working overtime to convince a mentally ill, unstable, or young and impressionable person to carry out an attack he would not be able to otherwise execute on his own.

In a just country, where the rule of law applies, this would easily be classified as entrapment.

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therouwboat|5 years ago

How did you get that? One of his plans was to shoot rifle rounds at powerstations, should be kinda easy to do?

Investigation started when canadian guy was stopped at the border, he was going to visit this "crazy teen" and had nazi and white supremacist images on his phone.

colinb|5 years ago

Tell that to the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Oh, I don't doubt that the FBI get up to their share of shenanigans. But that doesn't mean that there aren't real people who really hate other people for reasons of ethnicity, religion, skin tone, sexuality etc. Nor does it mean that those people sometimes decide to make their hatred concrete through the medium of dead people.

pseudo0|5 years ago

It's a bit ironic to cite the Oklahoma City bombing, as it was motivated by retaliation for the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents, two examples of federal law enforcement "shenanigans" that resulted in a lot of dead civilians. Maybe those sorts of sting operations do more harm than good?

ransom1538|5 years ago

The most bizarre case is "Ruby Ridge". ATF Officers tricked a poor unstable man to saw off a shot gun less than 18 inches. With that charge setup - ATF proceed to execute his wife and son. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge

jml7c5|5 years ago

You're skipping over more than a few intervening events, there.