Counter-terrorism police encouraged an autistic 13-year-old boy in his fixation on Islamic State in an undercover operation after his parents sought help from the authorities.
The boy, given the pseudonym Thomas Carrick, was later charged with terror offences after an undercover officer “fed his fixation” and “doomed” the rehabilitation efforts Thomas and his parents had engaged in, a Victorian children’s court magistrate found.
What the fuck. This is absolutely disgusting. And no mention of any repercussions for the police involved, either. Not that that’s a surprise.
Chalk another one up to ACAB.
How are you going to justify all the repressive surveillance, if you don’t manufacture some terrorists to catch?
— Wikipedia
Huh, I always thought it was All Cops Are Bad.
Either way, yeah, that’s my point. Cops do something absolutely abhorrent. Face no consequences. The lack of consequences proves it’s not just “a few bad apples”, but a broken institution.
Fun fact, the full metaphor is “A few bad apples spoils the bunch” or a variant of (one bad apple spoils the barrel) etc. So even when they try to deflect with that, they’re admitting it’s all rotten.
Same with one’s self up by their bootstraps, which was originally used to describe someone doing the impossible.
Same with pretty much every saying that regressives steal to justify their shit.
“Blood is thicker than water” does not mean family is more important than friends. The full saying is “Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” So it means the exact opposite.
“Spare the rod, spoil the child” is actually from a poem by Samuel Butler in the 1600s. The poem is about spanking your lover. The actual bible quote that the poem is satirizing is, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” Nuanced difference, but doesn’t advocate beating the same way the shortened one does.