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Manufacturing Criminality: How Law Enforcement Creates Its Own Justice

(Feb. 23, 2017 10:00 a.m.) The recent article published Wednesday by TheIntercept.com (excerpt below) demonstrates how law enforcement  manufactures its own criminal products by sprinkling in their own special ingredients into their tax payer funded activities.

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Excerpt:

Trump’s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint

By Murtaza Hussain, TheIntercept.com

(Feb. 22, 2017 5:36pm) THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the two undercover FBI agents who paid him to buy hardware supplies they said was for a bomb — and who at one point pulled a knife on him and threatened his family.

Robert Lorenzo Hester of Columbia, Missouri, didn’t have the $20 he needed to buy the 9-volt batteries, duct tape, and roofing nails his new FBI friends wanted him to get, so they gave him the money. The agents noted in a criminal complaint that Hester, who at one point brought his two small children to a meeting because he didn’t have child care, continued smoking marijuana despite professing to be a devout Muslim.

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