FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terrorist Plots
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 17 September 2012
That pattern goes something like this: hear that a huge explosion was averted and lives were saved, find out the plotter was an American citizen, find out he was under investigation by the FBI for several years, and then finally find out that it was the FBI that egged on the suspect and built his "bomb" for him.
"The bomb, which was inert and had been constructed by FBI technicians, didn't explode, according to federal authorities."
Simple rule for easy citizen control: let them have their fear, and fuel it. If nothing would happen, people would start to ask why these privacy invasions and governmental controls are needed; but if you present a possible terrorist now and then (even if you made everything up for him), people will keep believing that all this control is needed.