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The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist (muckrock.com)
A two-year FBI investigation apparently centered on the satirical web site "GodHatesGoths". Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes:
In 2005, the FBI launched an investigation into the "Church of the Hammer," a fundamentalist Christian sect which called for the wholesale slaughter of practitioners of the goth subculture. Two years later, the investigation was closed, on grounds that the Church didn't exist.
The FBI's threat assessment detailed "an extremely right-wing Christian group that adheres to a Middle Ages Catholic text called the 'Malleus Malificarum.'" But MuckRock.com reports that "The Bureau's main source on the case was a goth who had engaged with members of the Church via their Yahoo Group...trying to dispel their misconceptions about the relationship between the subculture and Satanism." After two years of scouring through crime databases and making phone calls to the Salem police department, FBI investigators actually visited the GodHatesGoths web site -- which turned out to be a parody.
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Well, what did you expect from a bunch of government workers who into the bargain are working for an organization that is reported to be a veritable nest to Trump voters... intelligence?
They can't investigate a legitimate religion
Define legitimate religion...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Define legitimate religion...
One that the speaker is a member.
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So what you're saying is, the FBI is in like, the sweet spot of corruption, where they're corrupt enough to not prosecute her, but not corrupt enough to have not investigated in the first place? How convenient.
And what about prosecuting Crooked Asshole Trump? Hate speech, death threats, conspiracy to commit crimes, fraud, tax evasion... just when you think the man couldn't get any more stupid, racist or misogynist, he opens his mouth again... Or a recording surfaces of him opening his mouth in the past... But OMG! Crooked Hillary sent and received emails, burn her on the spot!
The douche himself says he could murder someone in broad daylight and his supporters would still vote for him; it's true, redneck white trash KKK members don't know any better, in fact they'd be more supportive of him if the victim were black, Hispanic, Muslim, female, democrat or gay. Meanwhile, Hillary could use her "God given right" to bear military assault rifles and shoot up an Orphanage for Cute Children, Puppies and Kitties, and her supporters would still vote for her because she'd still be the least worst option compared to Trump (but the NRA would love her too!).
And Americans are too stupid in general to consider any other candidates because they all complain about how no one else will vote outside of those two, so it's just "throwing away my vote".
The Obama administration is one of the LEAST corrupt and MOST competent in American history.
a "2 year investigation" could easily just be somebody at the FBI keeping tabs on them to make sure it really is just harmless trolling. That's sorta what an investigation is. And befor you ask yes, I do want my law enforcement to keeping tabs of folks who go around advocating violence. It's not too hard to do it without violating anybody's rights and if we'd done a bit more of that perhaps that whole Sept 11 fracas coulda been avoided.
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