[RE]

 This is a response to Amir's post about Terrorism or FBI-ism:

I honestly didn't believe that this was true at first because it just sounded so ridiculous to me. The thought that our own government agencies are fabricating and even creating "terrorist" attacks is completely disgusting to me. They are creating these attacks that cause fear to the public when in actuality no one was ever in danger. The FBI should be focusing it's time and resources on real potential terrorist attacks instead of creating fake attacks so that they can look like hero's that saved the day.  I just can't believe that the FBI would actually hire people to attack our own country to use as propaganda or to distract Americans from other problems in the United States.

This article by Glenn Greenwald that Amir responded to is really eye opening and shocking. "The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots.  Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out — only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI." This article describes some the “terrorist attacks” that the FBI has created and of course stepped in and prevented right before they were supposed to occur. I feel like people just assume that whatever the government says is true. It really sucks that we can’t trust what our government says or does. This issue is completely ridiculous to me and I can’t believe that our government would stoop to such a level as to hire people to attack their own country.