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In reply to the discussion: FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report [View all]Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)64. All This Is Why I Think Police Stings Should Be Banned.
They are crimes. It is just as illegal to recruit for terrorism as it is to be a terrorist, just as illegal to offer a bribe, attempt to purchase stolen goods, attempt to purchase illegal items, as it is to accept a bribe, sell stolen goods, sell illegal items.
There's enough crime without the cops committing more.
Wolf
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Mix in Secret Government and Spherical Snooping and its MONEY for those in the know.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#10
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
Octafish
Jul 2014
#13
Ironic. While very conservative, the FBI Agent Donald Adams was quite a compelling person.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#62
I'm more worried about the Feds arresting cancer grannies for growing pot
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#43
Like DCI William Colby said re Sam Giancana: ''We had nothing to do with that.''
Octafish
Jul 2014
#35
How else can the establishment (TPTB) justify its humongous anti-terraist budget and its
indepat
Jul 2014
#17
You mean the creep who WILLINGLY pressed a button convinced he was going to blow up a crowd
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#42
Mohamud: "I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured"
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#45
And apparently a jury of 12 people didn't agree with Glenn Greenwald, who is one.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#51
I wouldn't. But this guy did considerably more than that. And I have to believe you grasp that fact.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#53
Back in the 80s a major drug bust went haywire as it turned out ALL of the players were cops....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#63
entrapment laws are a lot like vacation laws, maternity leave laws, sick pay laws
Adam051188
Aug 2014
#76