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?
ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) is an acronym used as a political slogan associated with people who are opposed to the police. It is typically written as a catchphrase in graffiti, tattoos or other imagery in public spaces.
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.
A bad apple releases gases which causes other apples to quickly ripen and then spoil.
So it’s not just “there’s one bad apple therefore the bunch is bad”, the bad apple makes the other apples turn bad too. The saying is about an individual spreading corruption through a group.
A reminder: never, ever, call police on someone whose welfare you care about.
As the saying goes: if you have a problem and call the police, you now have two problems.
Reminds me of when Riverside Sheriffs busted a special ed student (he had been diagnosed with Aspergers)…and then did it again to another one (who apparently had the cognitive level of a 3rd grader) the next year after having and undercover officer befriend them (along with others) and pressure them into buying or stealing drugs for them. Also, the case is crazy because somehow a minor regardless of having Aspergers can apparently waive their Maranda rights as well as their guardians not be contacted.
Surprised to see the article still using the term Asperger’s. Asperger was a nazi sympathiser and experimented on kids with autism and his name should be relegated to the toilet of history.
Edit: ah, the article is from 2014, so maybe a little less surprising that they used the term.
There’s no such thing as Miranda rights in Australia - that’s an American law. We do however have “the right to silence”, and must be informed of that right by police on arrest so it has a similar effect.
I didn’t say there were Miranda rights in Australia. I was referring the story I linked, which is from the US.
Wtf were they thinking! `-´
