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I knew a guy who was friends with a bunch of muslim assholes who ended up in prison for planning a terrorist attack.
He kept arguing that the FBI informant encouraged them and it wasn't their fault.
My counter was: if the FBI sent someone to me talking about doing a terrorist attack in order to "catch" me, it wouldn't work because I'd report the guy to the police. You know, because I'm not a terrorist.
I also suggested if they were dumb enough to be caught by the FBIs nefarious plot (while being in the country illegally), then they were really too stupid to live and they were probably better off in prison having someone else do their thinking for them.
Jackasses like them are fucking things up for all the other undocumented immigrants who just want to do jobs we don't want for slave wages.
Honestly, I might have had more sympathy for them if they had someone sympathetic to argue their side. The guy I knew was a pain in the ass.
Entrapment exists because people need a legal defense against law enforcement getting them to do a crime.
Yeah... Sound dumb as rocks... But I still think these FBI entrapment cases are a waste of time and energy... Like, either catch people who are actually planning shit or find something useful to do... Turning someone who's clearly dumb and vulnerable into a terrorist just so you can "catch" them is just such a waste of everyone's time and resources.
I agree. Most of the security theater is a complete waste, or worse, an effort to numb us to the ever-increasing destruction of our rights.