John Oliver admits there were more government fingerprints than “you would like” in the “kidnapping” plot of Gretchen Whitmer.
“Remember when that group of men was arrested?”
“Guess how many confidential informants seem to help that plot along?”
“I’ll give you a clue — it is a lot more than you would like.”
“And you… wonder if that plan could have even gotten off the ground if there hadn’t been ‘as many as a DOZEN confidential informants’ involved and ‘two undercover federal agents.’”
So John Oliver is basically saying the government can shape or aid someone else’s sinister plot… then blame the useful idiots who carry it out.
Even for a shitlib like him this is a huge step forward in admitting he was a bootlicker all along.
we do not hate cops enough. the part of this about the pigs entrapping mostly special ed. kids and then describing it to the local news as busting a local drug ring operating out of area high schools was fucking sickening. it’s good agitprop that they focused on one autistic kid who was entrapped into buying half a joint off an unhoused man. that’s a particularly universal case to highlight for people’s sympathies. the innocence of it combines well with its innocuousness; i’ve given a homeless man a joint before for free because he asked for one and i lived close by.
every single centrist lib that watches this will at least come away with the knowledge that the cops are preying on basic human empathy of vulnerable people, even white ones.
reminds me of the case where they framed an arabic man for trying to blow up to a bridge but the guy had a severe mental disability (like down syndrome or something) and he just wanted to hang out in a boat with his new friends from the internet
or the poor arabic guy who was depressed and considering taking his own life and the fbi informant posing as a women interested in him online time and time again tried to convince him to take others out with him and he kept saying it was against islam and they arrested him anyways
we do not hate cops enough. the part of this about the pigs entrapping mostly special ed. kids and then describing it to the local news as busting a local drug ring operating out of area high schools was fucking sickening. it’s good agitprop that they focused on one autistic kid who was entrapped into buying half a joint off an unhoused man. that’s a particularly universal case to highlight for people’s sympathies. the innocence of it combines well with its innocuousness; i’ve given a homeless man a joint before for free because he asked for one and i lived close by.
every single centrist lib that watches this will at least come away with the knowledge that the cops are preying on basic human empathy of vulnerable people, even white ones.
Related, from over 20 years ago but this man eventually got transferred back to England and got a Royal Pardon to get out of his 99 year sentence.
reminds me of the case where they framed an arabic man for trying to blow up to a bridge but the guy had a severe mental disability (like down syndrome or something) and he just wanted to hang out in a boat with his new friends from the internet
or the poor arabic guy who was depressed and considering taking his own life and the fbi informant posing as a women interested in him online time and time again tried to convince him to take others out with him and he kept saying it was against islam and they arrested him anyways