Does using criminals or actually becoming them, justify the path to security? American law enforcement tends to think so.
It should be common knowledge now that law enforcement has no hesitation in abandoning morality to achieve its goals. During interrogation of suspects, they can lie, offer false rewards, harass and threaten in the pursuit of a confession, deceiving the suspect into waiving his constitutional rights. This is used on children too, resulting in a high rate of false confessions.
The FBI scrapes the bottom of the barrel in carrying out its bizarre business of turning hopeless, angry teenagers into terrorists. In 2009-2010 two undercover agents, along with dozens of support operatives and a massive surveillance undertaking, spent a year to convince 19-year-old Somali-American Mohamed Osman Mohamud to try and detonate a bomb in downtown Portland. They befriended him, built up his confidence, did a test bombing on a tree out in the countryside, built the bomb and finally coaxed him into pressing that fateful button.
Comment: With the advent of 911, the US police state has become hopelessly, irretrievably out of control; the goal evermore becoming the subjugation and victimization of seemingly anyone that would would help to perpetuate the perception that we actually need a police state environment. It's the pathological and domestic version of the military industrial complex and intelligence/security apparatus that, just like a black whole, is working to suck in and destroy everything that's just.
SOTT has published countless stories documenting the above phenomenon in some form or another. And it looks like it will take an 'act of God' to rectify or counteract the sickness. But the situation is so critical, and the changes to our physical environment so extreme these days, we are likely to see it.