The Liberty City Seven, the Fort Dix Six, the Detroit Ummah Conspiracy, the Newburgh Four -- each has had their fear-filled day in the sun. None of these plots ever came close to happening. How could they? All were bogus from the get-go: money to buy missiles or cell phones or shoes and fancy duds -- provided by the authorities; plans for how to use the missiles and bombs and cell phones -- provided by authorities; cars for transport and demolition -- issued by the authorities; facilities for carrying out the transactions -- leased by those same authorities. Played out on landscapes manufactured by federal imagineers, the climax of each drama was foreordained. The failure of the plots would then be touted as the success of the investigations and prosecutions.
Whole article is interesting, but it sounds like the FBI is pushing the crimes and then busting them...
On the one hand, I understand the logic - those who actually go through with it all are more likely to do it when the feds aren't watching, either.
On the other hand, when you start talking about using a blowtorch to cut the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, you realize pretty quick that some isn't wrapped tight and won't be doing major terrorist damage anyways.
Well, it’s the Super-Monroe Doctrine: “Get off our oil, people who dress funny!” - M. Bouffant
"You're a bad captain, Zarde. People like you only learn by being touched, and hard. And you will greatly disapprove of where these men put their hands." - M. Vanderbeam.
The article certainly makes it look like entrapment. It's one thing to take a non-credible threats like the blowtorch plot and hype it like it's the next 9/11. Entrapment is something completely different.
