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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's a little underhanded IMO but at the end of the day kind of shocking how easy it is to convince an individual of religious faith to not only plant a bomb but detonate it.
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Problem is, in the cases I've seen mostly the people have not been anywhere near planting any actual bombs, let alone detonating them.
Now, I haven't done crazy careful study on the topic, but I did at some point (as part of my general interest in matters civil rights) try to find out what I could about the terrorism sentences in the US. To me it all sounds like bogus.
Al Jazeera recently released a documentary with some examples of how these things work. Of course it's only side, but there's enough actual facts in and quotes from the feds themselves that yeah, they've been putting to prison people who have not actually done anything.
You can check from about 7:30 on to get an idea of how the thing works. Those guys had no weapons at the time of arrest, so really there is no way to prove that they actually were about to do anything. Interestingly enough, there was also no real need to arrest them at that point, since had they actually tried to get their hands on weapons or explosives and went on with the alleged plot, the FBI would have immediately known about it because they had an informant in the group.
They didn't do that. To me that signals that they knew or at least suspected that these guys just wanted to take the money and run, and were no real threat. Had they done the legal thing, they would have just cut ties with them and forgot about them. But no, they wanted a public terrorist arrest, so they manufactured one.
Or, at least that's my take on what happened. Judge for yourself.