The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
We must send our thanks to the FBI. They have thwarted another terrorist attempt that the agency itself planned:
PORTLAND, Ore. –Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.
The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said. (emphasis added)
You really don't need to read anything else. In just the second sentence we are told that federal agents were guiding this entire operation. Normally we would call federal agents co-conspirators, but since federal agents are our masters, they operate under a different set of laws than we do, just as whites in colonial America operated under a separate set of laws than blacks.
This article is amazing in that it spells out everything the FBI did to provoke this attack, but without comment or surprise. Here's another excerpt with emphasis added:
U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton released federal court documents to The Associated Press and the Oregonian newspaper that show the sting operation began in June after an undercover agent learned that [Mohamed Osman] Mohamud had been in regular e-mail contact with an "unindicted associate" in Pakistan's northwest, a frontier region where al-Qaida and Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents are strong.
The two used coded language in which the FBI believes Mohamud discussed traveling to Pakistan to prepare for "violent jihad," the documents said.
In June an FBI agent contacted Mohamud "under the guise of being affiliated with" the suspected terrorist. But the documents did not say how federal officials first became aware of Mohamud.
An undercover agent met with him a month later in Portland, where they "discussed violent jihad," according to the court documents.
As a trial run, Mohamud and agents detonated a bomb in Oregon's backcounry earlier this month.
"This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people — even here in Oregon — who are determined to kill Americans," Holton said.
Yes, there are people determined to kill Americans in this country. They are called FBI agents! Are not they the ones who actually came up with this plot?
The alleged plot in Portland follows a string of terrorist attack planning by U.S. citizens or residents.
In the Times Square plot, Faisal Shahzad allegedly tried to set off a car bomb at a bustling street corner. U.S. authorities had no intelligence about Shahzad's plot until the smoking car turned up in Manhattan.
Late last month, Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Virginia was arrested and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an al-Qaida plot to bomb and kill commuters. Similar to the Portland sting, the bombing plot was a ruse conducted over the past six months by federal officials.
A year ago in another federal sting, 19-year-old Jordanian Hosam Smadi was arrested on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper. Federal officials said he placed what he believed was a car bomb outside the building but was instead a decoy device given him by an undercover FBI agent.
"I think we've been extremely lucky so far in the United States that many of the incidents have been amateur," said Bruce Hoffman, terrorism expert at Georgetown University. "But even if their skill level is not enough that they can pull off a successful attack, what is clear that the intention or motivation to cause mass homicide or destruction is certainly genuine."
Actually, Mr. Hoffman, it is not "clear that the intention or motivation" of these patsies is "to cause mass homicide or destruction is certainly genuine." This is not clear because it was the FBI that initiated the contact with these "terrorists". These people may have been content to just hate the Federal Government and go about their business. But given an opportunity, these not-so-bright individuals went along with the plan. And FBI agents can be quite intimidating when they want some one to cooperate with these plans.
But what amazes most about this article is that there is no effort to hide the FBI's duplicity. The FBI initiated contact with Mohamud and assisted him with "Mohamud's" plans. Then they arrested him, saying that he was a potential terrorist. The article even ends with a couple more examples of FBI agents conspiring with potential terrorists. And we, the American public, are supposed to thank the FBI for their vigilance and their protection from terrorists. Clearly our masters must think that the American people are absolute morons, unable to think a critical thought if their lives depended on it. Only a complete moron would think that the FBI thwarting an FBI initiated terrorist attack is actually protecting the American people. Given that the FBI thinks this of us, I expect more hobgoblins to appear in the future.
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