If you find some guy who is a talker with no means to initiate or complete an attack, then you provide what looks like the means and other support, the question becomes would he have gone on his own to build a truck bomb, or would he remain a bloviating talker (like some on some social media who talk about CW2)?
Yes we got him, but I bet that without the promise of a truck filled with Smashite he would not have done the phony attack.
They didn’t have enough to arrest him until he got into the truck, which makes for a weak case for how dangerous he was.
We have others who have publicly urged the killing of white babies, for instance, and they are still walking around free.
There are a good many Americans who would happily report to an “internment village” if government told them it was for their own security.
“...or would he remain a bloviating talker (like some on some social media who talk about CW2)?”
Are you implying the discussions on this website, on that topic, radicalize participants here???