He is not condemned, where are you coming up with your opinion that he is?
From posts on this thread.
If someone were to look at the available facts, a scenario set might be created and analysis would reveal the most probable truth. Given the number of self-proclaimed LEO's around, at least one must be trying to make detective. A detective's not much use if all she/he can do is make trivial conclusions. So perhaps they can do the same with the data known.
Known Data
Suspect has been on FBI files for over 8 years
Suspect has not been arrested or killed while wielding a gun to kill people at a mall in that time.
Suspect has talked a lot about getting guns and killing people.
Seriously if you look at all the stuff this guy is said to have plotted then a easy pattern forms. This guy is all said and no done (as in "easier said than done")
He makes a plan, tries to put it into action, then finds an excuse not to carry through. Note the word "Excuse"
Those meanies in the real terror organization wouldn't let me join, Scratch that plan
I don't know enough to make a bomb without blowing myself up, Scratch that plan
I can't get the right kind of guns to shoot people, Scratch that plan
That last excuse is certainly telling as, according to most experts, just about any sort of gun can shoot people.
So why is he getting arrested now? Because a "friend" of his got arrested on something completely unrelated to anything this Suspect ever did or got involved in and wants to "cut a deal" with prosecutors to get a lighter sentence.
I told you to note the worse "Excuse" above because the most probable reason the guy keeps making excuses is he has previously been too comfortable with his life to want to risk it by doing anything more than talking. But he has peer pressure, for example from the "friend" who is turning on him now but also perhaps including a prominent figure in his local Mosque, so he has to keep talking the good game or lose face with those peers. But if he gets a trip to club fed because the FBI agent in charge was TOO DAMN LAZY to do his job right, then a problem arises. The former Suspect, now Convict, won't be comfortable with his life. He might decide to do something more than just talk.
"Well who cares he's inept?"
You should care, so should everyone else. Because he might decide to go to those terrorist schools and offer to teach lessons in English and Passing as an Americanized person of Aramaic extraction. The easiest way to search for foreign terrorists is to look for the guys who are out of place. Teach them to blend in and it becomes much harder to stop them. Perhaps he'll study Josep Broz, AKA Tito, and the Yugoslav resistance to German/Italian occupation during WWII and remind the terrorists of the 'illa' in guerrilla.
There are far more effective actions the Terrorists might take to get the US out of the Middle East than trying to blow up ever larger targets, and someone who puts effort into designing those scenarios will find some of them.
So go ahead, let the press convict this guy before he goes to court. Heck let the public defender talk him into making a plea of guilty. Because that will make us, the people, so much safer.
