AT> MS> Come on.
AT> MS> No agent provocateur could just go up to a group of innocent
AT> MS> people and get them to bomb the World Trade Center if they
AT> weren't
AT> MS> already inclined to commit felonies.
AT> MS> If some agent provocateur urged you to bomb some place and
AT> you
AT> MS> had no such prior inclinations, would you do it?
AT>
AT> Well, in the World Trade Center bombing, the FBI's agent was paid a
AT> million
AT> dollars. He would probably be fairly persuasive with a million bucks
AT> at
AT> stake. Or, he may even just say he was persuasive enough.
Could he have offered _you enough money to become part of his plot?
AT> I'm not necessarily saying that the FBI agent did it all by himself,
AT> but it
AT> is highly possible that the other people would have never done it
AT> without
AT> him and his assistance.
The defense lawyers argued this at trial, but didn't convince either the
judge or the jury.
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