A quotable quote from Steve Soto at The Left Coaster (Bagging The Sheep, Not The Shepherds 06/24/06):
I want to follow up on the “Dumb Terrorists” story from yesterday, and an exchange I had with Bagley of all people in the comments thread from yesterday. Bagley’s point, as I understand it, was that these types of investigations and prosecutions are just as valuable if they stop dummies like these guys because it may prevent killings. Fair enough, but five years after 9/11, billions of dollars wasted and my privacy thrashed, all in the name of protecting me from terrorists here at home, I was hoping for a little more from our government that entrapping morons whose only link to Al Qaeda was through federal informants and agents who lied to them. We admitted as much yesterday when the Justice Department stated they stopped this case as soon as they had enough to prosecute these guys not for actually being tied to Al Qaeda, (which they weren’t except for our phony informant) but for being stupid and sounding like they were wannabes.
Which reminds me: earlier this month there was a bust of what sounded like a Christian terrorist in Tennessee. The FBI reportedly nailed him with a jar of the highly toxic poison ricin. One jar more than Saddam Hussein had. Haven't been hearing much about that case in the news, though. Oh, yeah, the guy had pipe bombs, too.
Personally, I'm more worried about Christian terrorists that are, you know, actually stocking up on pipe bombs and ricin than about some lame-brained cultists who were baited into incriminating themselves by the FBI. Not to minimize the danger of cults. But I'm more worried about those that are doing something dangerous, even without the FBI to egg them on.
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