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The article in question in case someone wants to read it. I found the tweet so outrageous I had to source it to make sure I had the facts right before complaining.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjva9m/afp-autistic-13-year-old-child-terrorism
Jesus Christ. I was hoping it was just overhyped and the reality wasn’t quite so heinous, but the title isn’t clickbait at all.
As an autistic adult, some of us are extremely easy to manipulate because they cant imagine people being subversive. You dont even have to have a low IQ for that.
Not all autistic people, but several I have known (including in my family) have definitely been way too trusting of people, unfortunately.
As I said, some. I‘m rather trusting myself and have paid dearly for it.
Wow that’s even worse than the picture made it sound. The parents reached out to the police as part of a program to get help for their son. Then the police realized he was susceptible to being radicalized and targeted him as a result.
That’s be like if you called an anti-smoking quit line and they were like “this guy’s got an addictive personality, let’s set up an elaborate scheme to get him hooked on crack so we can arrest him for possession.”
Thank you for providing a source. I’d pin your comment if I could.
what the actual fuck. isn’t this borderline entrapment? how is this legal in any way possible?? actual police actually grooming a literal child, just to arrest him for doing the things they literally groomed him to do! holy shit this is unbelievable
Entrapment only happens to people who can afford good lawyers.
It’s totally entrapment.
The victims usually don’t have the capacity to mount a sufficient legal defense.
In you remember Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre the incident that was based on was similar. FBI gaslighted three refugee inmigrants in order to get them to aid and abet a fictional terror plot so they could be charged with terrorism, so that FBI could assert it was stopping terrorism.
FBI creates a dozen such cases every year, specifically targetting vulnerable people with mental health problems or who are clinically retarded. They end up with really long prison sentences.
FYI this took place in Australia.
That’s SOP for a large percentage of FBI terrorism investigations that DON’T begin after an attack.
Whenever you read “FBI foiled plot”, dig into it and you’ll probably find similar behavior, or a CI who intentionally molded the terrorist for them.
This took place in Australia, so no FBI.
That’s literally the definition of entrapment.
This is literal child abuse. Really how does any FBI agent or supervisor think this is a desirable outcome? What kind of people are they?
This took place in Australia.
Oh thanks! At least the judge basically dismissed the case. Probably wouldn’t have happened in the US.
But their excuses are insane. “Yeah this 13 year old kid with an IQ of 70… there was nothing anyone could have done differently!”. I suspect this is more motivated by bullying or abelism, basically a type of fascism to shit on mentally sick people.
The crazy thing to me is the superior officer who signed off on it said he would do it again. That countermeasures haven’t been working. He still thinks he was right and did a good thing
Some people don’t deserve to live
Our cops in Russia have been doing that for years as well. They groom whole groups of teens like that. Absolutely mental.
Create a problem, then be the solution
Quick correction: This took place in Australia, not the United States or one of its territories.
Cops need to gather intelligence from a kid with an IQ of 70. When I want to be more intelligent I gather information from people who are smarter than me too!
I’m sorry, I seem to lack the base, stupid cruelty to comprehend this. I’m more fluent in intentful, intelligent cruelty.
What is the purpose…the…the end goal of making a kid do an illegal he wasn’t previously planning to do and arresting him for doing it?
To justify their pay.
He was already interested in ISIS and showing concerning behaviors. But, instead of trying to talk him back from the edge, they encouraged him to jump. Not as bad as completely starting him down the terrorism path, but not much better.
Literally half the plot of 1984.
Wouldn’t be the first time this has happened, albeit not against someone who was autistic.
Kinda different but
spoilers for the whole first season of this podcast I link to below
Around 2020-21, there was a racial justice protester in Denver who probably suffered a brain injury from a police rubber bullet (got knocked out at a protest and felt weird ever since, but doctors are expensive so who knows), who later got baited into making a straw purchase by an undercover FBI operative who (among other things) had a history of violent crimes and sexual assaults and was paid thousands of dollars by the FBI for his work
A straw purchase?
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damn, the parents should have gone to healthcare professional, not cops.
The only person at the senate inquiry into this that had any balls was Greens Senator David Shoebridge. Got his mic cut off for politely telling a cop to basically go fuck himself.
This is why I always put the Greens first on my ballot, in both state & federal and for both upper & lower houses. They’re the only viable leftist party in Australia imo.
This is pure incompetence. They should have been able to do it in less than 48 hours.
Just when I can’t think lower police, they find innovative new ways to be the absolute worst.
