really want to be a terrorist i'm a construction worker in florida now that terrorism would be good well no i'm not really into it yeah i think the money the money what money yeah this money why would we be terrorists we don't even have any weapons is some weapons what be the point of being a terrorism i'm pretty happy yeah but a government they're pretty corrupt aren't they why well for example they're always sort of staging these events and constructing terrorist type situations in order to impose legislation that makes me angry how angry very angry are you holding a gun yeah we're holding a gun would you be willing to use that gun i suppose so i'm getting pre-crossed you're under arrest for terror you're a terrorist the liberty city seven case that's the most ironic thing i've ever heard welcome to liberty city you're under arrest known by its connection to the poor violence-ridden miami neighborhood where the men involved lived was the most high-profile fbi investigation of a supposed terrorist cell after the attacks of new york city and washington dc it came as the bureau which had failed to act on intelligence he had received before NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN faced enormous pressure to predict and stop the next attack setting off its transformation in the words of former deputy director john pistole from reactive crime solving agency to preventative national security agency we're being derided for not stopping NUMBER_TOKEN. well it's too hard to stop NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. especially as it's already happened i know that's what makes this plan so genius why don't we design our own terrorist attack and then stop it we'll know how to stop it because we caused it and we'll know what it actually is you're a genius pistoli the story of the seven men five of whom was sentenced to a cumulative NUMBER_TOKEN years in federal prison in connection to the case is a largely forgotten tale about the lengths to which government agencies were empowered to go in the panicked aftermath of NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and about the absurdities of the us criminal justice operator sold to the public in the name of national security the case is indicative of how quickly the so-called war on terror morphed into a battle to shape a narrative that there was a real threat and the us government was winning i reckon that this mindset is at play in other popular narratives that dominate news media that even when there are real threats and real causes for concern of whatever variety they may be that government agencies the government themselves in collusion with the media construct stories that advance their own agenda and solve their own problems because they've created a mindset where they feel like they are in some archipelago of idiocy disconnected from the mainland that they are supposed to be governing this is a mindset that is not helpful and a further if you ask me piece of evidence that you cannot have massively centralized systems of governance because everyone goes sort of mental if all you were dealing with was like look we've got to control the resources in this area we've got to make sure this NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people get food they're able to manage their own lives we'll use technology and the advances in medicine that we have not in order to generate more profit but to solve the problems of being human that would be a much better way of running a society than we've got this mad giddy behemoth this ludicrous
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