Don't fall for the fed trap...
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I'll say it: between Patel and Bongino's complete incompetence up to this point and the name turtle island liberation front, I just don't buy it. That's the name someone gives their discord server as an inside joke, not a very serious terrorist cell. This all seems very manufactured to make it seem like the FBI has any credibility/competence.
So according to an article about the arrest in Louisiana, Prosecutors say Legnon shared an image in a group chat with members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front last week that indicated he was preparing to travel to New Orleans to attack Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
If this whole thing was set up to incriminate people, how did they all end up in the same signal chat? Maybe somebody with an incentive got them to join?
Yep, if it's anything like past examples of paid FBI informants we're going to end up finding out that none of these people had any plans to do anything until this informant showed up in their group and started trying to pressure everyone into doing things that would justify an arrest and get the informant a paycheck
Some past examples,
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/11/should-the-fbi-really-be-baiting-sad-sack-homegrown-terrorists.html (arc)
https://www.iheartmedia.com/press/investigative-podcast-alphabet-boys-reveals-fbis-sordid-use-informants-instigate-violence-and (arc)
Also, just learned the entire plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer a few years ago was entirely conceived by an FBI informant. JFC
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-informant/
Wait ... so informants don't get paid unless they get an arrest? What a terrible system.
edit it's true! wow, just ... stupid. Such clear conflict of interest is just asking for abuse.
According to the affidavit, the informant met up with Audrey Illeene Carroll, who went by the nickname Asiginaak. At the meeting, Carroll handed over eight pages covered with handwriting in blue ink. The document was titled “Operation Midnight Sun,” and laid out a plan to detonate backpack bombs at five separate locations on New Year’s Eve, when fireworks would mask the sound of explosions. The plan was unfinished. Beneath the list of targets were blank lines, marked: “add more if enough comrades.” (Carroll’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
The odds this bitch isn't on Lemmy?
I like how in the vast majority of pictures, Kash looks like he's about to say, "Oh, shit!"
I don't understand the connection to fireworks - maybe the sound hides the sound of the explosions from the bombs for a moment, but do they think people are going to just not notice the damage?
If this is as reported, they sound like idiots.
I'm not sure I understand your "framejob" comment. Do you think they weren't trying to plant explosives? If they were planning to do it, even if they wouldn't have been very effective, it's still a problem. They could have still hurt or even killed someone.

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