Bill, thanks for your post. Even on NPR this morning, it was possible to know that this was an agent provocateur op. A secret police agent targets black ex-cons (they were jailed for drug "crimes") at the margins of society, who seem to be initially guilty of nasty remarks, or maybe bothering a local snoop, and provokes (pays) them up into committing, or so they think, evil and vicious deeds. So now they will go into the worst kind of government cage for the rest of their lives because they so wrongly allowed themselves to be led around by the nose, and their worst instincts stimulated, by a secret agent. The feds and their media, of course, are once again able to trumpet their favorite theme: be afraid, be very afraid of Muslims, who are likely to blow up synagogues and shoot down military jets at the drop of a kufe. Periodic torture and indefinite terms in the US Gulag are too good for them. Need I note that it is a fundamental injustice for the government to seduce people, invariably poor people, into committing crimes, and then arrest and jail them for it?