An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
uhhhhhmmmmm…
Since when did it become a crime to simultaneously:
oh…wait. The PATRIOT ACT. 🤦
This violates the kid’s rights; but at the same time probably saved his life. I doubt he’d live long in Iraq.
Oh; so he was not only disabled but…
They entrapped him.
Where does it say he is disabled? I have adhd and bipolar, I’m not disabled, and it never occurred to me to join ISIS. My husband is autistic, and he never wanted to join a terrorist organization.
Edit: He said he’d build a fertilizer bomb in the US if he couldn’t go to the Middle East. Not defensible, IMO.
Asking in case I’m wrong: isn’t it only entrapment if the defendant wouldn’t have pursued the illegal action without the law enforcement playing a part? We can’t be sure from the details given, but by my understanding this would not qualify for entrapment if the accused sought out a contact with the Islamic State, but was funneled to the FBI agent instead, and they already expressed intent to join.
Correct, dude fell for a honeypot, he wasn’t coerced into it. No different than a police sting pretending to be a hooker and arresting a John
Except that’s not why this is a crime. You can do that all day everyday. This is a crime because of his intent to fight for what’s in effect a hostile foreign terrorist organization.
With conditions in prisons being what they are in this country, his odds won’t be too much better there
The US has 1.2M incarcerated people. Around 6000 prisoners die in prison every year which gives prisoners a substantially lower mortality rate that the overall population.
Why don’t we just let him go and not let him back (or arrest him when he gets back if he is a US citizen)? If he wants to get killed in Iraq why are we stopping him?