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by wallace_f 2552 days ago
You got a lot of downvotes, but the themes in your comment are, in fact, eerily close to reality, even though a lot of people wouldn't believe it.

The Intercept has a long-running series documenting the Security State prosecuting people for terrorism, who never were terorrists -- many are mentally ill people given plots and weapons by the FBI: https://theintercept.com/2017/09/03/the-fbi-pressured-a-lone...

See the full series and list of stories here: https://trial-and-terror.theintercept.com/

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The legal requirements for entrapment are quite forgiving