[F]ederal prosecutors said he was planning to kill at least 30 people to "defend Islam" [but] the resulting charges were two counts of possessing a machine gun and one count of possessing a silencer, all of which he bought for $570 from undercover FBI agents ... [D]espite the hours of recorded Arabic conversations with the informants, he ultimately "rejected their overtures and lectured his informant friends about why such a plan would be wrong." [More]The price alone would alarm and alert any but the lowest-hanging fruit.
Anybody else get the feeling they're going after the wrong guy...?
[Via Florida Guy]
I remember a certain group in Arizona back in 1985 with the same problem. During all those clandestine meetings in hotel rooms, the ONLY guy who ever started talked about violence and blowing up dams and buildings was the guy wearing the wire. Everybody just stopped inviting him to the meetings after a while. Best part of all, was when the court testimony about the feebs finding "bomb craters" on somebody's Flagstaff ranch was challenged by the defense attorney, it turns out that the suits from Washington were collecting samples of not "explosives residue" but . . . pig shit. The "mortars" turned out to be CO2 launchers of Coke cans filled with sand to keep coyotes away from the livestock. It only went downhill from there when the analysis of the "combustible white powders" recovered from the kitchen pantry turned out to be sugar and flour.
ReplyDeleteAnd we waste how many billions of taxpayer dollars a year on these idiots?
-MM