“would ‘they’ Pick this kid?”
My not altogether unreasonable or paranoid given our alphabet agencies’ history suspicions about Matthew Crooks.
FBI knew him. He got caught with Bomb making material, some random post came up on FBI’S new and improved AI-augmented “Carnivore” and they had a little discussion with him about his options.
Choice A- His life, his family’s life destroyed by home invasion, media circus, he goes to prison for decades where he’s passed around as “fresh meat” - a new sex toy - for lifers in exchange for a few smokes, OR,
Choice B- he does this thing for them , dies, but saves his family from the horror of IRS, FBI, DHS investigation, bankruptcy, more.
Tough choice?
Fear in the face of the Fascist Bureau of Instigation has worked on many a patsy lo these past 100 years.
Is your paragraph about the FBI knowing Crooks documented, or speculation?