Any time you hear law enforcement bragging about a “sting,” the first thing that should come to mind is “tax dollars wasted.” They are miserable failures at actually protecting people (as they constantly remind us they do), so they create crimes that otherwise would not have taken place.
Somehow they’ve been able to convince the courts that these schemes legally do not constitute entrapment, but ethically speaking that is exactly what they are.
Read to the end of any story about the FBI preventing a terrorist attack and chances are you’ll find that what they really did was pick out some angry, mixed-up sucker and talk him into accepting a fake bomb from them.
Any time you hear law enforcement bragging about a “sting,” the first thing that should come to mind is “tax dollars wasted.” They are miserable failures at actually protecting people (as they constantly remind us they do), so they create crimes that otherwise would not have taken place.
Somehow they’ve been able to convince the courts that these schemes legally do not constitute entrapment, but ethically speaking that is exactly what they are.
Read to the end of any story about the FBI preventing a terrorist attack and chances are you’ll find that what they really did was pick out some angry, mixed-up sucker and talk him into accepting a fake bomb from them.