If the FBI entrapped white supremacists & neo-nazis based on thoughts, like they do to Muslims, there'd be thousands of them in prison.
@EliLake But I'm not the one saying they pose less of a threat than right wingers. Our IC is. I don't have access to the intel to say.
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@emptywheel No that’s not what the IC says. 9/11 is a mass casualty attack that is nothing like the other attacks. -
@EliLake And while we're at it, the greatest threat to America is not terrorism in the least. Treating it as such hurts America, badly. -
@emptywheel I also think Jihadist threat is more global and beyond just terrorism. But it’s not comparable to other radical movements. -
@EliLake What constitutes a "radical" movement? Bankers have undermined very notion of property. Isn't that radical? Are Saudis radical? -
@emptywheel Your point about bankers is just batty. -
@EliLake How so? You think changing property laws is not radical? -
@emptywheel I don’t think it’s comparable to radical Jihadism, which seems to be the point of this whataboutism. -
@EliLake It's whataboutism bc you're unfamiliar w/other crime networks? It seems to be teaching Eli Lake some basics. - 2 more replies
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@emptywheel@EliLake Also, the problem w/ FBI stings & entrapment is precisely that they are fully unrelated to the "Jihadist threat" -
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@emptywheel@RBrulin Agree a lot of these FBI probes target confused weirdos who express intention to attack but lacked means to do so -
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