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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMost Terrorist Plots in the US Aren't Invented by Al Qaeda -- They're Manufactured by the FBI
http://www.alternet.org/books/most-terrorist-plots-us-arent-invented-al-qaeda-theyre-manufactured-fbi?akid=10071.277129.9mKQz1&rd=1&t=3Antonio Martinez was a punk. The twenty-two-year-old from Baltimore was chunky, with a wide nose and jet-black hair pulled back close to his scalp and tied into long braids that hung past his shoulders. He preferred to be called Muhammad Hussain, the name he gave himself following his conversion to Islam. But his mother still called him Tony, and she couldnt understand her sons burning desire to be the Maryland Mujahideen.
As a young man, Martinez had been angry and lost. Hed dropped out of Laurel High School, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, and spent his teens as a small-time thief in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. By the age of sixteen, hed been charged with armed robbery. In February 2008, at the age of eighteen, he tried to steal a car. Catholic University doctoral student Daniel Tobin was looking out of the window of his apartment one day when he saw a man driving off in his car. Tobin gave chase, running between apartment buildings and finally catching up to the stolen vehicle. He opened the passenger-side door and got in. Martinez, in the drivers seat, dashed out and ran away on foot. Jumping behind the wheel, Tobin followed the would-be car thief. You may as well give up running, he yelled at Martinez. Martinez was apprehended and charged with grand theft of a motor vehiclehe had stolen the vehicle using an extra set of car keys which had gone missing when someone had broken into Tobins apartment earlier. However, prosecutors dropped the charges against Martinez after Tobin failed to appear in court.
Despite the close call, Martinezs petty crimes continued. One month after the car theft, he and a friend approached a cashier at a Safeway grocery store, acting as if they wanted to buy potato chips. When the cashier opened the register, Martinez and his friend grabbed as much money as they could and ran out of the store. The cashier and store manager chased after them, and later identified the pair to police. Martinez pleaded guilty to theft of one hundred dollars and received a ninety-day suspended sentence, plus six months of probation.
Searching for greater meaning in his life, Martinez was baptized and became a Christian when he was twenty-one years old, but he didnt stick with the religion. He said he tried the Christian thing. He just really didnt understand it, said Alisha Legrand, a former girlfriend. Martinez chose Islam instead. On his Facebook page, Martinez wrote that he was just a yung brotha from the wrong side of the tracks who embraced Islam. But for reasons that have never been clear to his family and friends, Martinez drifted toward a violent, extremist brand of Islam. When the FBI discovered him, Martinez was an angry extremist mouthing off on Facebook about violence, with misspelled posts such as, The sword is cummin the reign of oppression is about 2 cease inshallah. Based on the Facebook postings alone, an FBI agent gave an informant the green light to get to know Martinez and determine if he had a propensity for violence. In other words, to see if he was dangerous.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)...for facebook postings?!
Now what if some stupid people flood the damn thing with postings like this, the FBI going to chase them too?
This is beyond silly
atreides1
(16,079 posts)It's much easier to manufacture a "terrorist" attack then it is to say, investigate the banks! Also, the flavor of the day is Islamic terrorism...which is probably why you won't see many Christian based terror groups/militias being investigated.
Let's just call it 'the path of least resistance', because that's what it is!
FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)This is a malicious entrapment, an act instigated by an agent provocateur working for the federal government. It doesn't get much more obvious than this.
A precedent was already established more than 80 years ago.
2. The National Prohibition Act, though denouncing generally as criminal the sale of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, was not intended to apply where the sale is instigated by a prohibition agent for the purpose of luring a person, otherwise innocent, to the commission of the crime so that he may be arrested and punished.
I hope lawyers reading this story would consider defending Martinez. He does not deserve to be imprisoned 25 years for this.
napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)One gets the sense that FBI is obligated not to counter an existing threat, but to manufacture one, to support a narrative that is completely detached from reality. It begs the question: What really happened on 9/11? I'm not the type to believe much in inside jobs, but it does give my mind cause to wander, to imagine those events as perhaps something much more far-out than we were led to believe, with the official story basically existing as a form of psychological protection for the public from the terrifying truth.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)The FBI seems to be in the business of finding loudmouth punks and grooming them to be presented to the public as terrorist masterminds. Why do they feel driven to invent terrorists? Can't find any real ones?
Napoleon has it right. If al-Queda was able to recruit nineteen people who couldn't wait to kill themselves to strike a blow at the Great Satan, what happened to all the wannabes who, you would think, couldn't wait to do the next big thing?
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Most terrorist plots are done by domestic terrorist...White Christian Terrorist! These people terrorize everyone who provide support for & actually perform abortions by posting people's private information on-line & on flyers...And most of all they assassinate abortion doctors! Then you have the White Christian terrorist who bomb abortion clinics, attack Jewish centers & various other forms of domestic terrorism.
And since America is made up of mostly White Christians these terrorist are not reported as the terrorist they are. Their terrorist attacks are simply reported as everyday murders. Even so-called "Liberal Christians" tend not to go as far as labeling these terrorist "TERRORIST" due to the fact they are Christians & do not want to admit people kill in the name o f their religion.
Yes, the FBI tends to "manufacture" many of their terrorist cases here in the US...But these arrest don't even begin to compare with the real threat of domestic white Christian terrorist!!
Brewinblue
(392 posts)n/t
watoos
(7,142 posts)at a bar after work. The guy monitored phone conversations. After buying him several beers he opened up a bit. I asked if he was allowed to monitor US phone calls. He claimed only if they went overseas. So I ask if I'm talking football and mention that Daryl Lamonica was the mad bomber will I light up on his board. He replies, oh no, you have to say bomb 3 times before a red flag pops up. So folks, remember the 3 bad word rule.
KG
(28,751 posts)an imminent threat to the u.s. that a bomb should be dropped on him and everyone around him...
James48
(4,436 posts)seriously?
how do i apply for a job like that?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Would-be suspect: "No."
Problem solved.