Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley

The Associated Press (as carried by the Boston Herald) reports that a 20-year old Topeka man has been arrested as he attempted to arm what he believed to be a thousand-pound bomb outside Ft. Riley, Kansas. John T. Booker Jr. is alleged to have planned an attack in conspiracy with others who were actually FBI agents; Booker's postings to Facebook in March 2014 about his desire to die as a martyr brought him to the FBI's attention, and the FBI sting operation which ended in his arrest began after these posts. Booker had been recruited by the U.S. Army in February of last year, but his enlistment was cancelled shortly thereafter.

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could never wrong. fast and furious, feds killed

[raymorris]

> What happens when one of their sting operations don't go according to plan? Maybe their guy goes a little nuts and decides to do things his own way,

A federal sting could NEVER go wrong. It's not like the federal government (illegally) provides weapons to murderous drug cartels, who then use exactly those weapons to kill border patrol officers and others. Well okay, that could happen, but if it did, they'd immediately put a stop to the program. They wouldn't KEEP selling weapons to organized crime even knowing the weapons were being used to kill people in Texas. Well surely they'd stop when the information became public. The feds wouldn't send Eric Holder to go lie to Congress about the whole thing.

Nothing like that could ever happen, because whatever the problem is, the federal government is always the solution. The feds are never the problem, and the Constitution is "just a piece of paper", ad one famous law professor / community organizer put it.

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[circletimessquare]

you do not fucking understand the concept of entrapment. stop talking about a concept you do not understand

sting: cops leave a car with the keys in the ignition where a suspected car thief walks every day. he steals the car. he's arrested, validly, for theft

entrapment: cop walks up to suspected thief: "here's the keys to that car, it's yours to take." he takes the car. he's arrest- invalidly. he should not go to jail and he should sue the police for entrapment

it's about *intent*. if you form the intent to do something malicious on your own, you are not entrapped. you are a criminal

please try to understand the fucking topic before injecting yourself into it