{"id":16931,"date":"2012-05-20T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2012-05-20T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:49:12","slug":"rick-perlstein-how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16931","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perlstein: How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing &#8216;Terrorists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> &#8211; and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook<\/p>\n<p><em>By<\/em> Rick Perlstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This past October, at an Occupy encampment in Cleveland, Ohio, &#8220;suspicious males with walkie-talkies around their necks&#8221; and &#8220;scarves or towels around their heads&#8221; were heard grumbling at the protesters&#8217; unwillingness to act violently. At meetings a few months later, one of them, a 26-year-old with a black Mohawk known as &#8220;Cyco,&#8221; explained to his anarchist colleagues how &#8220;you can make plastic explosives with bleach,&#8221; and the group of five men fantasized about what they might blow up. Cyco suggested a small bridge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515\">Click here to continue reading How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing &#8216;Terrorists&#8217; &#8211; and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook&#8221; by Rick Perlstein<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook By Rick Perlstein This past October, at an Occupy encampment in Cleveland, Ohio, &#8220;suspicious males with walkie-talkies around their necks&#8221; and &#8220;scarves or towels around their heads&#8221; were heard grumbling at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}