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Originally posted by BenReclused
Then you need to arise from your make-believe version of reality.
I watched both videos. As I suspected, they only confirmed that you don't understand the meaning of the word "coerced". Perhaps you should "arise" and fetch a dictionary. Furthermore, basing your reality on nothing more than speculation is the very definition of "make-believe".
See ya,
All the arguments in your many posts in favor of the actions of the FBI assume that the media and the government are telling you the complete and accurate account of the events.
The primary problem with believing the media and they FBI is that they lie constantly.
I have taken into consideration the possibility that the FBI and the mainstream media do not have an agenda and are merely reporting a truthful account. I have decided to reject that notion, once again, because I know for a fact that the FBI and the media have a policy of persistent lies and agendas.
In this case, the truth as to if there was entrapment or coercion cannot be determined to an impeccable degree of certainty; however, I choose to use my keen sense of intuition coupled with a lifetime of experience with media deception and covert government activities to examine this story from a different, more probable perspective.
Do you believe everything you read in the news? Of course not. You use your own judgement to determine if there are shenanigans going on. Why treat this story any differently? The report, as one would expect, minimizes the amount of involvement the FBI had in encouraging, facilitating, and coercing this subject into action.
If the mainstream media news report said the FBI recruited him under the surreptitious motive to stage another foiled act of domestic terrorism by a Muslim, I guess you would have to believe that because that's what the handsome CNN anchor told you.
The arguments are only as good as the information, the rest needs to be filtered by an acute sense of when to get out the shovel because you smell something stinky.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by BenReclused
Actually it already happens. You ever hear of America's Most Wanted? A large portion of fugitives, these days, are apprehended by tips - and those tips often come from friends or family members. Oh and a common police trick - catch a minor member of a group and use fear to get him to "give up" everyone else.
During the McCarthy area the FBI received endless amounts of information about supposed communists from citizen sources.
~Heff
Soon they won't even need to spend money watching us - many of us will volunteer to do it, and we'll be more hypercritical and judgmental than any law enforcement agency can legally be.
This discussion is going nowhere with a person like you.
hmmmm, 18yrs old eh? ... obviously, you are underestimating the power of peer pressure.
Just say NO, but he didn't.
ummm, when has it EVER ??
If it weeds out another Islamic wack job, i'm all for it.
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by RealSpoke
They create the terrorist scenario, convince someone to act on it and then arrest them.
Nonsense! Daoud had already expressed a desire to commit an act of "violent jihad". The FBI only gave him an opportunity to act out his fantasy.
See ya,
Milt
and in this train of thought, do we hand out utility knives to those who express an interest in cutting themselves ?? or hand a gun to someone who expressed a desire in committing suicide ??
where is the logic in this ??
wannabe terrorist ?? -->> what a "catch all" phrase.
didn't everyone play cops/robbers as kids at some point in their lives ??
terrorizing another human is a part of nature, everyone shows some desire at some point or we wouldn't have the entertainment variety that we do.
do you blame the frog for jumping in a pot of hot water or the chef that filled it and turned on the heat ?
This sort of thing is blatantly obvious, how the hell is it allowed to continue? Is the general population that stupid or is the legal system just that spineless? Perhaps it’s both. Surely an informed population and a strong legal system would have quashed this insidious practise when it first happened.
It's fairly clear today America would have been better off under British rule. Atleast Britain likes its people and instead of wasting time attacking their own people, they use their time and resources to go after people in other lands to generate revenue.
I lost all respect for the FBI after they bought the house next to a guy and put two FBI agents in the house posing as a couple and harassed the guy living next door for over a year to sell them a shotgun with the barrel sawed off. They ended up shooting the guys kid, his dog, and when mommy walked out on the front porch with a baby in her arms to see what was going on....a FBI sniper shot her right between the eyes.
The Ruby Ridge incident. The man was awarded $3 milion after the FBI killed his entire family. The majority of what he got was taken back for taxes and lawyer costs...he really got nothing.
We've got some real CROOKS using their power/authority to kill their fellow Americans....just because they CAN.
The FBI agents who killed that mans family ended up getting awarded MEDALS. SICK!
America would have been better off if we were under British rule, and I bet if you asked every American citizen today you would have a majority agree.
BenReclused, I have a new claim that I'm going to give you great supporting evidence for.
The pathology of your participation in this thread lead me to look at some of your other participation on ATS. You have -5,832 ATS points, 0 flags, and people in threads all over the place can't stand you. I assume all the negative points are because you can't participate in a productive way.
In other words, not only do you bring no value, you are a negative asset, a drain on cyber-society. Guess you don't have to trust your intuition on this key point because the evidence you cherish is really in my favor. Cheers troll!
Guess you don't have to trust your intuition on this key point because the evidence you cherish is really in my favor.
Cheers troll!
You have shown ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that supports your claim that Daoud was entrapped by the FBI. That statement only shows a strong tendency toward dishonesty, and an extreme lack of integrity on your part,
Originally posted by InTheFlesh1980
reply to post by BenReclused
Very well, back to the topic. One last try here and then we'll just have to disagree.
You have shown ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that supports your claim that Daoud was entrapped by the FBI. That statement only shows a strong tendency toward dishonesty, and an extreme lack of integrity on your part,
To use your tagline, "Nonsense!". We both are engaged in speculation based on opinion with no evidence. Here is the explanation, please try to follow:
I speculate that the FBI coerced and entrapped this individual for the greater purpose of perpetuating fear in the citizens of the US over domestic terrorism as a means of control as part of a greater agenda to limit freedoms so the power elite can always remain the power elite.
There is no direct evidence to support this. There cannot be because there is none to be found. There is only indirect evidence, intuition, and extrapolation.
You speculate that the mainstream media report is accurate and truthful, and that the FBI has been forthright in their account of this individual's actions and how much the FBI was involved. Since the media report and criminal complaint are instruments of the entities in question, they are not direct evidence. You speculate that they are true.
There is no direct evidence to support your stance as well. There cannot be because there is none to be found, unless you personally were present to verify that the FBI did not use illegal methods and lie in the report. There is only indirect evidence, intuition, and extrapolation.
Since you have misrepresented your evidence as factual, I suspect you are being dishonest, and that is a breach of integrity.