PeterL: BingoBoingo: did you see in the news that a bunch of people were arrested for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Michigan's Governor Whitmer?
PeterL: you could spin it as "Facebook assists USGov to spy on people exercising their free speech right to complain about a governor"
PeterL: or you could say something about poor operational security of letting a FBI mole into the group
PeterL: "The arrests were part of a planned effort in concert with state authorities, and not in response to any imminent urgent or dangerous development" << so they did not actually have any concrete plans to do anything
PeterL: from https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/fbi-plot-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/index.html
BingoBoingo: PeterL: I have been giving it a look, but this smells of being one of those FBI aggitator get folks to say things while shooting the shit and them makes arrests
BingoBoingo: sorta dances
PeterL: That's what I was thinking too, there does not seem to be evidence that they were actually going to do anything
PeterL: "Anybody know this Bob guy? He found us on Facebook and now he is suggesting we actually do something illegal instead of talk, and I feel like he is always trying to record what we are doing?"
snsabot: (trilema) 2014-04-13 asciilifeform: the 'a) wanna buy strela? b) fuck off c) really, dontcha? b) ok sure c) off to jail' thing has been going so long that it doesn't even make national news every time now.
snsabot: (trilema) 2017-05-25 asciilifeform: has at this point lost count of the 'fine folx' who offered him 'sure profitz' involving white powders/militias/deathrays across-the-border/across-the-ocean/in-shangri-la/in-shiticonvalley etc etc
thimbronion: Possible "US pays insurgents for a while then blows them up with a drone" angle.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: 'deathray plots' are the domestic 'law enforcement' version of this.
thimbronion: asciilifeform: indeed. I always enjoy stories reported about the US as if reporting about a foreign country though.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: when i want these, i simply read 'rt' etc
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/10/ussa-several-arrests-after-fbi-entrapment-baited-with-michigan-governor-kidnapping-plot/ << The Montevideo Standard -- USSA: Several Arrests After FBI Entrapment Baited With Michigan Governor Kidnapping Plot
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/10/expocannabis-announced-will-be-held-as-actual-in-person-even-hosted-at-latu/ << The Montevideo Standard -- ExpoCannabis Announced: Will Be Held As Actual In Person Even Hosted At LATU
BingoBoingo: Title typo fixed