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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
1. Because you can't lock people up for thought crimes.
2. Because you can't lock people up for speech, unless it's directly suborning terrorism or violence. In other words, people are free to talk as much as they want about how great they think everything ISIS is doing is, how much they'd love to live in a Caliphate, or how awful they think it is that women and gays have rights. That can't be a state matter to police. If the "recruiter" is actually instructing people to kill others or facilitating same, that's where the line's crossed. Who knows if that's what happened here.
3. I agree that if he thought he knew that the perpetrator had been radicalized, he should have reported it. But how is he guilty by association? Of what crime? Or do you just mean that he's partly culpable, indirectly? That's a hard judgment to make with the limited details we have, which as far as I know is a sentence written on a message board.
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Okay but surely you can get arrested for planning a terrorist attack and being caught before it's carried out? Weren't those guys in Toronto arrested for trying to attack CSIS? And surely people who had knowledge of said attack and didn't report it are also arrest-able?