The U.S. national government has a long history of employing questionable tactics in order to increase their budget and give the American population some peace of mind. The FBI’s use of entrapment strategies targeting mentally ill members of the Muslim community in order to justify counterterrorism spending is an egregious violation of human rights. The blatant disregard for the human life is obvious in their use of human beings as tools to get more funding.
Entrapment is a legal term that not too many people are familiar with, it is the illegal act of luring an individual into committing a crime that they would not have committed otherwise and then prosecuting them for it. The FBI has been employing these strategies in order to create terrorist …show more content…
Ferdaus was arrested in 2011 for plotting to attack the Capitol building and the Pentagon with a remote-controlled airplane that was packed full of explosives. This is a seemingly normal charge, but what wasn’t normal was the mental state of one Rezwan Ferdaus. Ferdaus suffered from severe depression that everybody, including the FBI, had noticed. An FBI agent actually went up to one of his parent’s and told them that “obviously [Rezwan] has mental issues,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 506). Ferdaus was approached by a confidential informant and introduced to two undercover FBI employees posing as Al-Qaeda operatives. This lead to Ferdaus taking a trip, on the FBI’s dime, to D.C. and surveilling targets that the undercover agents had aside in their plan. The egregious moral issue comes in the fact that this man could in no way, makeup such an elaborate plan as the one he was charged with. He also was in no shape to be making large decisions for himself. Throughout the operation Ferdaus, “lost control of his bladder,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 507) and his father said that he would go through “28 packs [of] man’s diapers.. in just four or five days,”(Human Rights Watch, KL 510-511). He also was prone to seizure like shaking and eventually sought help. Shortly after this he was arrested and convicted of “attempting to damage and destroy a federal building by means of an explosive and attempting to provide material support for terrorism,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 528-529). The obvious problem with this case is the fact that the FBI blatantly takes advantage of the poor mental state of this man and creates a terrorist plot so that they can get one more arrest in order to keep their budget up. This view that people are just pawns and toys is utterly
Entrapment is a legal term that not too many people are familiar with, it is the illegal act of luring an individual into committing a crime that they would not have committed otherwise and then prosecuting them for it. The FBI has been employing these strategies in order to create terrorist …show more content…
Ferdaus was arrested in 2011 for plotting to attack the Capitol building and the Pentagon with a remote-controlled airplane that was packed full of explosives. This is a seemingly normal charge, but what wasn’t normal was the mental state of one Rezwan Ferdaus. Ferdaus suffered from severe depression that everybody, including the FBI, had noticed. An FBI agent actually went up to one of his parent’s and told them that “obviously [Rezwan] has mental issues,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 506). Ferdaus was approached by a confidential informant and introduced to two undercover FBI employees posing as Al-Qaeda operatives. This lead to Ferdaus taking a trip, on the FBI’s dime, to D.C. and surveilling targets that the undercover agents had aside in their plan. The egregious moral issue comes in the fact that this man could in no way, makeup such an elaborate plan as the one he was charged with. He also was in no shape to be making large decisions for himself. Throughout the operation Ferdaus, “lost control of his bladder,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 507) and his father said that he would go through “28 packs [of] man’s diapers.. in just four or five days,”(Human Rights Watch, KL 510-511). He also was prone to seizure like shaking and eventually sought help. Shortly after this he was arrested and convicted of “attempting to damage and destroy a federal building by means of an explosive and attempting to provide material support for terrorism,” (Human Rights Watch, KL 528-529). The obvious problem with this case is the fact that the FBI blatantly takes advantage of the poor mental state of this man and creates a terrorist plot so that they can get one more arrest in order to keep their budget up. This view that people are just pawns and toys is utterly