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by Alex Marthews
The news this morning is full of the arrest of yet another American on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Nobodys suggesting that 20-year-old National Guardsman Nicholas Teausant of Acampo, CA is a terrorist, or that he provided any help whatsoever to terrorists, or that he was in contact, ever, with any actual terrorists. But, the media breathlessly report, hes still facing charges that can put him in jail through to the 2030s.
Why?
Well, seems that he was on a camping trip sometime last year or maybe not; investigators couldnt corroborate that the camping trip ever happened but anyway, afterwards, Teausant is reported to have said to some guy that he had been on a camping trip and had talked with friends about blowing up the LA subway, but that they hadnt done anything because they had been tipped off.
Some guy turns out to be an FBI informant, who, knowing that he will get good money for reeling in an actual honest-to-goodness terrorism suspect, puts Teausant in touch with a mentor who would approve his application to go fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The mentor is, of course, an FBI agent, who helps Teausant arrange bus and rail travel from his home in Acampo, California, to the Canadian border, where he is promptly picked up by law enforcement.
Oh, Teausant also mentioned online that he wanted to join Gods army. Well, you know, Allahs army he is a Muslim convert, after all. How nice it is that we Christians reject all such military imagery. [1] [2] [3]
(over 2,250,000 results for join gods army on Google).
Can we do a but for analysis here? Any alleged plotting to blow up the subway (a) may never have happened, (b) may have been nothing more than dumb teenagers bragging round a campfire, and (c) had definitely blown over because of a tipoff. Theres no evidence other than the paid informants testimony that such a plot ever existed, and it would have been profitable to the informant to have made it up out of whole cloth. It would also have validated Teausants desire to be thought of as a badass by someone he thought was a friend, to have made it up out of whole cloth himself. Well have to see whether any actual evidence emerges that this plot is anything more than teenaged braggadocio but try finding a media outlet that is expressing any skepticism about it whatsoever.
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http://warrantless.org/2014/03/fbi-terrorist/
rafeh1
(385 posts)nothing personal but fbi needs to justify its budget now that Pentagon has its cold war adversary back.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)civil war and executing liberals, the godless, illegal aliens, homosexuals, etc.
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