OK, am I the only person who's SICK AND TIRED of the FBI/others foiling plots that they had a hand in cooking up in the first place?
It wasn't the PATRIOT ACT or NDAA that helped bring these people in, it was the FBI selling them inert explosives in the first place. Had the FBI not sold them, where would they have gotten real ones? IF they were able to procure REAL explosives, AND use them, then they were in the wrong. Otherwise, it's my opinion they'd have done nothing wrong. Saying they were going to do something and actually doing it is different. "Doing it" with inert objects isn't really "doing" anything at all, now is it? I don't really follow into the whole "intent" crap on everything.
So now, we've got to suck it up and have even MORE surveillance on our every day ordinary American to stop them from doing things that the gov't is helping them do in the first place.
Even if these guys truly wanted to blow something up, THEY HAVEN'T HURT ANYONE UNTIL THE ACTUAL EVENT. Let them say all they want. Until they cause ACTUAL harm to someone, then they haven't done a damn thing.
Am I over reacting here?
5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
The devices actually were inoperable and posed no threat to the public, and the FBI arrested the men shortly after the devices were planted, authorities said.
It wasn't the PATRIOT ACT or NDAA that helped bring these people in, it was the FBI selling them inert explosives in the first place. Had the FBI not sold them, where would they have gotten real ones? IF they were able to procure REAL explosives, AND use them, then they were in the wrong. Otherwise, it's my opinion they'd have done nothing wrong. Saying they were going to do something and actually doing it is different. "Doing it" with inert objects isn't really "doing" anything at all, now is it? I don't really follow into the whole "intent" crap on everything.
So now, we've got to suck it up and have even MORE surveillance on our every day ordinary American to stop them from doing things that the gov't is helping them do in the first place.
Even if these guys truly wanted to blow something up, THEY HAVEN'T HURT ANYONE UNTIL THE ACTUAL EVENT. Let them say all they want. Until they cause ACTUAL harm to someone, then they haven't done a damn thing.
Am I over reacting here?
5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs