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Re: Entrapment and Bitcoin
by
Clobered09
on 13/03/2014, 19:35:34 UTC
UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: hey I noticed that you have radical and extreme opinions. What to be friends?

RADICAL EXTREMIST: Yea, sure.

UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: Man, those guys in that federal building are assholes.

RADICAL EXTREMIST: Yea!

UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT:  Sure wish someone who show em what for.

RADICAL EXTREMIST: Yea!, me too. I would do it if I knew how.

UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: Want me to teach you?

RADICAL EXTREMIST: Yea!

UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: (teaches bomb stuff) Here's a bomb. Have at it.

RADICAL EXTREMIST: OK thanks. Going to get this done sometime next month/year.

UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: FREEZE!! FBI!! You're under arrest for terrorism stuff!

and the newspapers headline reads, "FBI Uncovers Terrorist Cell and Foils Bombing Plot!"

Terrorism: 0
USA: 1



Exactly, while probably a waste of resources, this is a perfect example of something that doesn't count as entrapment that most people mistakenly think would.  The agent didn't change anything about the extremists disposition, the government didn't convince the extremist to do something he otherwise would have been opposed to.