tubeswell wrote:Truth be told, how many slightly deranged and deluded 19 year olds, who are barely out of teen-aged adolescence, and are at the best of time highly confused about the world, dream of taking out their teen-angst on something or other? If it was the late '70s, he might have dyed his hair crimson and got a mohawk and a nose-ring and smashed foreheads with such peers on friday night whilst high on whacky backy and gone largely unnoticed.
Or maybe even in this day and age, if he had gone undetected, (and who knows how many other kids in similar straits are lurking out there?), he might just have grown up and led a normal life, and looked back on his foolish youth for the folly that it was.
As it is, he has had 'help' from the finest secret service money can buy to indulge in his childish fantasies, and now he must go to prison for ... (life?).
No wonder the world is coming apart if this is how we treat our kids.
(Okay I will take the hits now folks)
Are you nuts?
As a teenager back in the ‘60’s, I had long hair, a headband, fringy suede boots, a guitar slung on my back, may have smoked stuff rolled in Zig Zags and been opposed to the war of the day. (Vietnam) My parents did not approve.
If anyone had approached me and offered to provide me with the necessary to blow up anything, let alone innocent men, women and children I would have told my parents, who would have gone straight to the police – or I would have done so myself!
Would
you have committed such a nefarious act, for any money or incentive???
I cannot believe anyone would see this as manipulation and entrapment of an innocent by the “evil authorities.”
Give your heads a shake.
Do you think the police should have taken the attitude, “we cannot do anything until the crime is committed?”
The fact that he MIGHT not have succeeded on his own is irrelevant. Intent is what matters here.
I am appalled that anyone would support or make excuses for this vile person and condemn the authorities who stopped him once and for all.
ETA: Enzo, what the hell are you talking about, comparing this to those idiotic zero-tolerence policies? You are way too smart to draw such illogical parallels.
Good thing this is the Infuriati thread. :x
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche