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earlier today i read a romance novel that fictionalized the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy, where a group of radicals were set up & funded by a government informant to commit an act of terrorism. i can't shake the parallels to the modern day FBI, which operates in the exact same wayLook on archive.org
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the plotters were largely incompetent, the idea & the funding came from the informant, the aftermath was used to justify sweeping legislation recently passed that curtailed civil liberties (that was in itself a motivation for the conspirators)...Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, and the black guy involved believed he wouldn't get a fair trial because of racism. argued in court about how he was respectable, taught Sunday school etc. but got a death sentence anyway.Permalink Look on archive.org