>"Get close to" in law enforcement parlance means "encourage criminal activity". If you read the details in these court cases, you repeatedly see an almost universal pattern of activity on the part of law enforcement to egg their targets on towards the criminal act.
Do you think that real terrorist plotters just ask nicely once and then leave you alone?
Also, we're talking about mass murder here, not selling some acid. Maybe you're right about some of these drug cases crossing over into entrapment. A lot of people feel that drugs "aren't that bad" and if a friend bugged them enough, maybe they would try to find some. I don't know the facts sufficiently to conclude either way. But that's not what we're talking about here.
Right. It's all about people with power targeting people susceptible to those kinds of pressures. We have this habit in the developed world of shunning and shutting out people that are in or have been to prison. But you would do well to talk to those kinds of people. Our justice system takes the word of law enforcement over anyone else. That is a pretty precarious amount of trust in what is nothing more than another human being.
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
Do you think that real terrorist plotters just ask nicely once and then leave you alone?
Also, we're talking about mass murder here, not selling some acid. Maybe you're right about some of these drug cases crossing over into entrapment. A lot of people feel that drugs "aren't that bad" and if a friend bugged them enough, maybe they would try to find some. I don't know the facts sufficiently to conclude either way. But that's not what we're talking about here.