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| Manufacturing Terrorists |
| 2014-07-24 |
| [The Nation (Pak)] Like something out of a Robert Ludlum novel, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) and Columbia Law School have released a report on a series of "sting operations" conducted against Moslem Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The report reveals how the FBI targeted persons on the basis of their ethnicity and religion, and approached them through undercover agents in a bid to ensure preemptive prosecutions. In many cases, the undercover agent acted as the key player rather than as a mere participant or an abettor. During one of the trials, a judge had observed, "the government came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles, and had, in the process, made a terrorist out of a man whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope." HRW claims that the FBI specifically targeted vulnerable people, with low intelligence and mental issues. It is quite clear that the FBI viewed these Moslem Americans as "terrorists-in-waiting". Many of these people neither had any links with a designated terrorist organization nor were they planning to carry out any terrorist activity on their own. In some cases, the FBI even offered large sums of money to financially troubled individuals in order to convince them to act on the plans neatly laid out before them. It is reasonable to assume that the FBI, by employing the very same tactics used against Moslem Americans, could have just as easily tricked pro-life white Americans into blowing up abortion clinics or environmentalists into attacking a pollutive oil refinery. There is not much we can do about what goes on in someone's head other than educating them to think differently. The real concern is if they will ever act on those thoughts. Now, we can either wait for them to make the wrong choice, and hold them accountable for it. Or, we can deliberately push and bait vulnerable people into making bad decisions, and remove all lawful barriers that prevent the crime from taking place. This is yet another example of creating false perceptions which may help the US government to sustain a discriminatory 'anti-terrorism' policy, but not without turning the clock back on human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... and civil liberties. It also runs the risk of further inducing feelings of injustice, resentment and anger amongst Moslem citizens who are clearly being victimised under the garb of national security. If nothing else, it is a complete waste of time. Should the FBI really be creating threats out of nowhere only to counter them and appear active while real threats still exist elsewhere? How is the FBI behaving any differently than an al-Qaeda operative who preys on the vulnerabilities, emotions and simplicity of otherwise innocent individuals and recruits them as terrorists? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Just scroll up to Chicago Muslims Threaten Violence Against Jews Over Gaza ..of course, Chicago is home to various efforts of unconstitutional suppression of gun ownership. I'd be mildly surprised if such a headline would pop up in, say, Dallas. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-24 08:44 |
| #1 Saying that the Feebs are manufacturing terrorists is like say a copperhead isn't dangerous until it tries to bite you. They're confusing intent with inclination. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-24 07:48 |