FBI [encourages and then] thwarts mass shooting at Milwaukee Masonic center

Mind you, if I had ever spent time at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center, I likely wouldn’t have minded if the plot had been thwarted with nukes or with anthrax or by releasing the frickin’ Kraken if that’s what it took, let alone with fake guns and lies. Still, I do often wonder how many of these terrorist plots that the feds thwart so heroically would have been even so much as talk if not first encouraged by the feds themselves. In this case, for example,…

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh discussed his plan to attack the center with two others, detailing how they would quickly and quietly kill the first people they saw and then methodically move through the building, “eliminating everyone” they encountered, according to a federal criminal complaint.
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Hamzeh had been under investigation by the FBI since September, which used confidential informants who secretly recorded him. Undercover FBI agents arrested him this week after he tried to buy automatic weapons from them, the complaint says.
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He hatched a plan to attack a Masonic center in Milwaukee with two others, who were actually the informants cooperating with the FBI.
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The undercover agents showed two weapons and a silencer to Hamzeh, and told him the weapons were capable of fully automatic fire, the complaint says.

Hamzeh agreed to a price and paid it to the undercover agents, who then handed Hamzeh a bag containing two automatic weapons and a silencer. Hamzeh carried the bag to his car and put the bag in the trunk of the vehicle, the complaint states. He then was arrested.

So two of the three prospective participants in this nefarious plot were snitches, and Hamzeh was arrested for possession of forbidden weapons supplied by the snitches, and if we were to listen to those recorded conversations I wonder who we would learn came up with the idea in the first place? How much manipulation did it take to get him to say those things on tape, before the fake weapons were turned over and the fortuitous arrest occurred?

Maybe I’m all wet, maybe there really would have been a terrorist shooting if the feds hadn’t been involved from the beginning. I’m certainly not inclined toward any slightest tinge of sympathy toward this kid they arrested. Maybe I should be thanking God for our selfless protectors. Maybe.

But color me skeptical. It’s an old truism that you can always tell the snitch in your group: of all the people talking trash, it’s the one who actually comes up with and starts pushing a violent plan. Remember: When somebody tells you, “Sure! I can get you all the explosives [or submachine guns, or silencers, or whatever] you need! What do you want to blow up?” you’re talking to a fed. And he’s talking to an idiot.