RCMP "may have knowingly facilitated a terrorist act"

[sdw]

A BC Judge has ruled that the RCMP may have knowingly facilitated a terrorist act while running their operation on John Nuttall and Amanda Korody.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...lty-of-knowingly-facilitating-a-terrorist-act

VANCOUVER — There is evidence the RCMP broke the law while conducting a high-profile terrorism sting and must hand over confidential legal documents, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

Justice Catherine Bruce has not yet ruled whether the RCMP entrapped John Nuttall and Amanda Korody into plotting to blow up the B.C. legislature in 2013, but she said in a ruling released Wednesday that the Mounties may be guilty of knowingly facilitating a terrorist act.

This one will probably go the the Supreme Court of Canada, but I'm willing to bet that the RCMP is going to lose.

 

[huggzy]

A BC Judge has ruled that the RCMP may have knowingly facilitated a terrorist act while running their operation on John Nuttall and Amanda Korody.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...lty-of-knowingly-facilitating-a-terrorist-act



This one will probably go the the Supreme Court of Canada, but I'm willing to bet that the RCMP is going to lose.

I said this exact thing when I first read about this shitshow. We have these two crack head nutjobs who wouldn't know how to make themselves a peanut butter and jam sandwich that the RCMP essentially lead by the nose into doing this, and when they made the arrest they go around parading them as if they captured Osama Bin Laden. It was a complete joke and an embarrassment to our country.

 

[Fillup]

Yes. I was shocked at how simple he appeared in the surveillance videos.

 

[badbadboy]

When I heard the convicted pair speak on a TV News clip, it was apparent to me that the RCMP went after a couple of the dullest tools in the box. WTF were the RCMP thinking because this pair were not credible.

 

[Larry Storch]

When I heard the convicted pair speak on a TV News clip, it was apparent to me that the RCMP went after a couple of the dullest tools in the box. WTF were the RCMP thinking because this pair were not credible.

Easy targets perhaps. Yeah i know that sounds paranoid, but this wouldn't be the first time someone has gone through this with the RCMP

From CBC.ca

Over the course of the investigation, undercover officers posing as jihadi warriors gave Nuttall and Korody groceries, cigarettes, bus passes, cell phones, phone cards, clothing, cash and a portable hard drive.

They also provided the pair with a place to work on their terrorist scheme and a location to build the explosives, chauffeured them to various stores to purchase bomb-making equipment and transported them to and from Victoria and around the Lower Mainland over the course of the four-month sting operation.

Not exactly giving them info and sitting back to see what they do with it.


From CBC.ca

Korody's lawyer Mark Jette suggested to Kassam that police removed his client and her husband from the house because otherwise "they weren't motivated to do much of anything except play video games."

"It sounds to me like your assessment is that if they were at home they were unfocused and unmotivated and using drugs but if you got them out of the house you might be able to motivate them to do something," Jette suggested.

Kassam disagreed, saying "I think it's more of a commitment level as to how serious they are."

Kassam was appointed primary investigator in charge of the undercover file on June 24, 2013, one week before Nuttall and Korody were arrested. He testified that when he took over the case the other officers appeared frustrated that the suspects weren't moving forward with their bomb plot as predicted.

 

[huggzy]

Easy targets perhaps. Yeah i know that sounds paranoid, but this wouldn't be the first time someone has gone through this with the RCMP

From CBC.ca



Not exactly giving them info and sitting back to see what they do with it.


From CBC.ca

The police had to bloody well bring these two groceries so that they could eat...they couldn't even feed themselves. They were dependents and likely saw these "jihadi warriors" as the only people who cared for them, they relied on them for survival, and they not only gave them some meaning and purpose in their lives but they motivated them to do this "mission".

Damn it. If you gave those two to me for a day I'm sure I could motivate them to be Crusaders for the Christian faith, and then the next day I could have them running around as pastafarians with colanders on their heads worshiping flying spaghetti monsters. This thing is a travesty.

 

[Larry Storch]

^^^Exactly. I don't know how anyone could say they were a threat.
Perhaps the reasoning is if it wasn't the RCMP leading them, then an actual radical group could've enticed them into doing the real thing?

 

[Atticus]

The RCMP need to go after real terrorists instead of encouraging simpletons. This whole thing was a colossal waste of time and money.

 

[Walk Softly]

They poured a whole lot of money into the set-up and then were afraid to admit to their superiors that it was a wash out and walk away. (Just my theory!)

 

[hornygandalf]

The RCMP need to go after real terrorists instead of encouraging simpletons. This whole thing was a colossal waste of time and money.

Maybe they are having trouble finding real ones, and needed something to look like the time and money was necessary.
Maybe Harper needed something to justify his mis-allocation of taxpayer money.

 

[Larry Storch]

Why is this news? I'll tell you why. Because it has the word terrorist or terrorism as a title. If you think the RCMP breaking laws, the constitution etc, is new. You really haven't a clue.

Well no, it's not new. The RCMP has been around for a while and I don't think this is the first time they've been caught playing in the mud. Yes the word "terrorist" certainly draws attention, but I think having "knowingly facilitated a terrorist act" and seemingly targeting a vulnerable couple is what people are more upset about. A civilian doing this would be looking at charges. Not much will happen to the people involved IMO.