An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
According to his arrest affidavit, law enforcement began investigating him in June 2022 when someone who knew him contacted the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The person said they were concerned because, after following white supremacist ideology, Meyer, then 17, had turned to Islam and was frequently watching and listening to “radical Islamic sermons online.” The FBI was notified by the sheriff’s office, it said.
Notice the overlap and contradictory ideologies. It’s often not even the specifics of what they are slinging, it’s the group. Being accepted, celebrated, getting to be part of a social scene, that is a common motivation for these societal outliers.
Isis has done an excellent job with their PR campaign. Their videos are all in 4k and high quality, of course it appeals to a disenfranchised young man that probably doesn’t feel like he has anywhere to turn.
What’s sad is it seems to have worked but isis all but doesn’t exist anymore, it’s just left over shit from their height. I bet he just googled how to join isis and was directed straight to the fbi lol.
Sometimes I wonder whats going through their heads. If theres something broken deep inside.
The document noted that Meyer had previously undergone mental health treatment and has been diagnosed with conditions including autism spectrum disorder and major depressive disorder
Not even that deep
uhhhhhmmmmm…
Since when did it become a crime to simultaneously:
- Worship controversial religions
- Board a plane
- Go to another country
oh…wait. The PATRIOT ACT. 🤦
This violates the kid’s rights; but at the same time probably saved his life. I doubt he’d live long in Iraq.
Except that’s not why this is a crime. You can do that all day everyday. This is a crime because of his intent to fight for what’s in effect a hostile foreign terrorist organization.
The document noted that Meyer had previously undergone mental health treatment and has been diagnosed with […] mental health conditions. […]
Oh; so he was not only disabled but…
Soon after he turned 18 in November, Meyer began communicating online with someone he thought was an Islamic State facilitator but was actually a paid FBI informant, the document said. The following month, that person introduced Meyer to another informant who claimed to be an Islamic State travel facilitator, who met with Meyer three times to talk about his plan to pay and prepare for traveling to join the Islamic State.
They entrapped him.
Asking in case I’m wrong: isn’t it only entrapment if the defendant wouldn’t have pursued the illegal action without the law enforcement playing a part? We can’t be sure from the details given, but by my understanding this would not qualify for entrapment if the accused sought out a contact with the Islamic State, but was funneled to the FBI agent instead, and they already expressed intent to join.
Correct, dude fell for a honeypot, he wasn’t coerced into it. No different than a police sting pretending to be a hooker and arresting a John
Where does it say he is disabled? I have adhd and bipolar, I’m not disabled, and it never occurred to me to join ISIS. My husband is autistic, and he never wanted to join a terrorist organization.
Edit: He said he’d build a fertilizer bomb in the US if he couldn’t go to the Middle East. Not defensible, IMO.
I doubt he’d live long in Iraq
With conditions in prisons being what they are in this country, his odds won’t be too much better there
The US has 1.2M incarcerated people. Around 6000 prisoners die in prison every year which gives prisoners a substantially lower mortality rate that the overall population.
Why don’t we just let him go and not let him back (or arrest him when he gets back if he is a US citizen)? If he wants to get killed in Iraq why are we stopping him?
