Proposed "Conspiracy" Theory
What if the FBI supplied the material to the guys. Using their angst against the United States as a way to entice the boys to act. As in the other cases there was an informant that
used the hunger and desire of disaffected people to point toward a goal of carrying out something to be remembered for. Usually these depressed and unfocused persons are looking for a meaning to their lives to be more than a body of waste to society. Men and women before the age of 35 are enticed in many endeavours that stimulates the ego and some esteem into their lives. So the FBI watches a group of young "idiots" to see if they are interested in plotting a scheme. Waiting for any affirmative response they go in and maintain that idea "with" until there is a plan hatched. At this point the FBI has it's prey in the crosshairs. Either they capture the prey and win credit for preventing "another devastating attack" or the let the idiots drop off unidentified bags at various places without even so much explaining what they are for.
I have my reservations for the official story. I take everything the government says with agrain of salt. If they are willing time and time again to use our emotions against our better judgement to maintain their hegemony over a particular populace, home and abroad, then they are willing, ready, and able to carry out atrocities for political and economic gain. For many that is just okay, as long as they are not the victims themselves, but they are the willing victims of moral cognitive dissonance. They are willing to benefit from the evils of society as longs as it does not harm their next of known. And for those who aren't patriotic are targets of the beneficiaries and the government. From the thought provocateurs to the out in out terrorists, these are the enemies of the advancement of the established road to it maintain prosperity and power.
So let's say that pissed off former Marine comes back home to a foreclosed home, sick wife, delayed veterans benefits, and long unemployment that he is directly affected by has really no way to exhibit his discontent. The FBI is bored or either in the area sniffing out a tip, or surveilling some behaviours in the area (because the high number of unemployed, disaffected, and anti-government behaviour) and this particular chap mentions something negative with in ear shot of an undercover agent hence recommencing the enticement cycle. This, i find, no different that someone enticing a well knowing student to try drugs. It may have never cross their minds but the radicalized nature of their life (students are by the very nature of their studies chaotic and in search of relief) and their chosen situation and belief systems can be coerced in a way to push to them to an extreme. Beings, sentient or not, are in exisance for the stimulation. If deprived of pleasurable stimulation it either seeks to remedy the deficit or it cease to exist.
Finally to my point: These poor saps, misguided men with the "looser" mentality wound up the prey for the FBI. Just like a homeless person becomes prey the vultures of society. I in no way condone or endorse the violence and I believe that justice should be served to ALL involved. Yet I am well aware of the predatory attitudes and methods of the established power structure that exist. I find it hard to teach and create a just society when our law enforcement methods are morally questionable and deemably unjust. Many of the "moral majority" would never allow such behavior, coercion, or emotional inflaming in their households, yet at the moment of entering the real world society, not culture, maintains order by the very means deemed unacceptable at the kitchen table. We need to address our Crisis of Hypocrisy.
Society needs to expect to be burdened by terrorist if it continues to terrorize the non-compliant or the differing. Automony is here is to stay and only augmenting the individual. It is in our genes now. Humans are not submissive by choice but by survival. Yet the need of humans to survive beyond their means in now becoming apparently oxymoronic. we realize we have an abundance of things and this abundance of things are depriving each other and our home. We innately know it's not ok to pee in our drinking water, but we do it anyway to protect its^scarcity- self aggrandizement. As a group that practices that behavior we are only making our livelihood scarce. We lie to win, cheat to love, hate to laugh, and cry for joy- absolutely psychotic, and we do it with pride.
Moral degradation does not come from turning your back on "God" but taking on the throne. Ruling the universe requires being the universe, in doing so we must widen our view beyond the seat and into our hearts.
P.S.
This came from the top of my head- this NOT an endorsement of ANY idealisms.
