Trust Your Mechanic

Don't bother going to read The Fear Factory in Rolling Stone magazine. Seriously. There is no point to it. You either already believe that the government often creates problems, crime and terrorism out of thin air or you will probably never believe our government would ever do such a thing. There are those who believe in evolution as a viable theory and others who cover their ears and quote the Bible as soon as you mention the word even though we have a shaved monkey as our political leader.

So if you are already a believer in government conspiratorial intervention, this won't shock you. You may even be as bored with it as I was. The only real reason to view the article is to see what random advertisement you get with it. I got the one at right which was fucking hilarious considering.

The expenditure of such massive resources to find would-be terrorists inevitably requires results. Plots must be uncovered. Sleeper cells must be infiltrated. Another attack must be prevented —or, at least, be seen to be prevented. But in backwaters like Rockford, the JTTFs don't have much to do. To find threats to thwart, the task forces have increasingly taken to using paid informants to cajole and inveigle targets like Shareef into pursuing their harebrained schemes. In the affidavit sworn by an FBI special agent in support of Shareef's indictment, the co-conspirator who called himself Jameel is known only as "CS" (Cooperating Source). In fact, CS was William Chrisman, a former crack dealer with a conviction for attempted robbery who was paid $8,500 by the JTTF and dispatched specifically to set up Shareef. Like other informants in terrorism cases, Chrisman had been "tasked" by federal agents to indulge and escalate Shareef's fantasies — while carefully ensuring that Shareef incriminated himself.

This shouldn't shock anyone. Law enforcement at all levels has an interest in portraying the world as full of harm that they will protect you from. Your mechanic will find something wrong with your car if you bring it into the shop. The dentist will never say you take such good care of your teeth you don't need to bother with next year's check-up. The lawn care service will never tell you that you can take care of your own yard just as well as they do and with very little effort.

There are thousands if not millions of sites out there where people quote news articles and spout opinions about them as though it were liturgy. I didn't say that the world could do without one more. Instead I got my friends in on it. I just wish the CIA were paying me to bait y'all into compromising positions. Instead X gets the check. What a rip off! Makes me want to blow shit up...