The case of the Fort Dix Five, accused of plotting to attack a New Jersey army base, also involved dubious use of paid informants, an apparent over-reach of evidence and a plot that seemed suggested by the government.
Burim Duka, whose three brothers were jailed for life for their part in the scheme, insists they did not know they were part of a terror plot and were just buying guns for shooting holidays in a deal arranged by a friend. The "friend" was an informant who had persuaded another man of a desire to attack Fort Dix.
These are just five of the more high profile cases out of hundreds of others in which a seemingly dangerous terrorist plot is thwarted, only to have the facts later reveal that the "terrorists" could not terrorize a fly without the tutelage and material aid of federal law enforcement agencies and informants.
These cases make it clear that the U.S. government is creating terrorism in order to be perceived as thwarting it and scaring the American people into believing there are real terrorists in our country. The motive behind that may be to justify legislation that infringes on civil liberties, huge expenditures on homeland security such as the Transportation Security Administration, surveillance conducted by fusion centers and wars that generate profit for the military-industrial complex. Of course, the most recent case will enable the Federal Reserve to claim it is a terrorist target and request additional security.
Federal law enforcement agencies seem to take an affirmative role in staging the crimes at mosques or, as in the case of the Cleveland bridge bombers, at an occupy protest. When the DOJ prosecutes cases like these, it leaves more clear-and-present dangers, such as criminals like the Foot Hood shooter, the Arizona shooter who shot a congresswoman, the Colorado movie theatre shooter or the Sikh temple shooter in Wisconsin, relatively unbothered and discovered only after people are killed.
Perhaps the government is singling out ideological enemies, not real terrorism or crime. The American people simply have no legitimate reason to believe anything that the corporate media or government claims, especially when it has to do with terrorism which has historically been used to further restrict the freedoms of everyday Americans nationwide. That is consistent with several of the 14 defining characteristics of fascism that have become apparent in the U.S. in 2012.
Update: On Sunday a gunman shot seven people in a Milwaukee-area mall, three of whom died. He then took his own life. Yet another example that the FBI is not stopping those that are really "predisposed to commit terrorism."
Sources:
Mother Jones -- The Informants
Mother Jones -- The Best Terrorists Money Can Buy
Mother Jones -- Terrorists for the FBI Exclusive
Mother Jones -- Terror Trials by the Numbers (charts)
Mother Jones -- Profiles in Terror (interactive database)
New York Times -- Man Accused of Plot to Blow Up Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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