FBI Creates Terrorists Plots.... Just so they can "solve them"

And he's going to push you to
commit crimes so he can catch you?

There was an article in the New York Times titled "Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I." This piece details the common F.B.I. practice of finding people that might be interested in committing a crime, grooming them, funding and goading them into going through with something and then arresting them for it.

Hell, our Federal government will SUPPLY suspects with items that later are used to incriminate them. Sound right to you? Let's talk about Mohamed Osman Mohamud, an Oregon college student that was helped to create a bomb to attack the Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland.  The FBI provided him with a van, 6 drums of "inert" material, blasting caps that weren't active, detonator mechanisms and diesel fuel to make the van small flammable and dangerous.

Actually, an FBI agent, under cover of course, drive with Muhamud to set off the "Bomb."  So, in effect, they found somebody unhappy with things, I'm sure they profiled him and his name was a big plus to the powers that be, and they held his hand every step along the way, basically encouraging him to become a "bomber."

Is this legal? This article says it is. Sounds like entrapment, but I'm not an attorney. But, the bigger question is  would these people have ever committed such a crime had they not been encouraged by our government. Our government funded their efforts and in doing so, pushed them into actions we have no idea if they would have ever taken. This is a pre-crime division of our government, Minority Report style, and I don't know why more people are shocked, angry and frightened?

The case of the Oregon "bomber" is by no means the only one. There are many more examples and all the while, people are congratulating the agency on a job well done. What job? Manufacturing fear and arresting people for things you tried to get them to do?  I don't know about you, but this is not a reality I want to be a part of.

We are just a couple steps away from arresting people off the street based off of their book and movie selections. After all, they watched an anti-American movie, they checked "The Catcher and the Rye" out from the library and we see them walk down the same street a suspicious number of times via government monitored street cams. They must be dangerous, right? Think about where we're going and then help me think of ways to solve it.