• ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      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.

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      9 months ago

      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.