The article refers to a recent arrest in Portland of a man who is alleged to have plotted to detonate a bomb at a "Christmas tree lighting ceremony".

Anybody know anything about that?

The First Bunch of Idiots have a long history of entrapment and provocateuring and believing the Constitution and Bill of Rights don't apply to them. Anyone up for a long history lesson?

"... Monteilh has gone public, revealing secret FBI methods and charging that his "handlers" trained him to entrap Muslims ...."

Ya' gotta wonder how much this is gonna cost taxpayers. Brandon Mayfield got $2 million from FBI harrassment in false arrest. Judi Barre got $10 million, finally, to her estate, when the FBI-made bomb in her car blew up, rendering her disabled until she died, and for the years-long duration of the legal stall the Bureau insisted they didn't make no bomb and she must've because, y'know, she was like an 'activist' saving the redwoods and so obviously she would do something like that ... while in fact the FBI murdered her with their bomb so, y'know, they are LIARS on top of being murdering civilians.

The Egyptian 'Blind Sheik' convicted and sentenced for 'the first (2/26/93 Clinton's 1st month) World Trade Center bombing' had been targeted and infiltrated by an 'FBI informant' who produced the idea, the plans, the van, the bomb materials, directions and the goading -- Monteilh has gone public, revealing secret FBI methods and charging that his "handlers" trained him to entrap Muslims -- but that FBI bomb killed only 6 innocent civilians ( www.fff.org/freedom/fd0408c.asp ). Oregon's 'own' John Kroger was Asst US Atty in Manhattan at the time and 'dabbled' in that case ... helping FBI cover up?

When the FBI headquarters in WTC Bldg.7 -- "Building What?" -- blew up during Nine-Eleven Op, why would anyone choose willful ignorance and avoid to consider the idea and the evidence that FBI & Associates (read: CIA, Bush administration), planned and conducted Nine-Eleven Op -- certainly consistent with the long-running criminal FBI pattern and m.o. and, plus, just look at the results in how much p.r. promotion FBI et al. got for their myth of 'Muslim terrr-makers be very afraid' ... whereas blowing up Manhattan skyscrapers was NOT and NEVER any pattern, NOT even one time in history, of Muslims. Anyone who believes the FBI-supplied b.s. that the kid was a 'terrast' in Pioneer Courthouse Square, is probably someone who believes FBI-promoter liar LIARS Larson, (who lied today that "the new Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act bans school bake sales" ... except LIARS did NOT say the true name of Congress's legislation because LIARS is ignorant of what the title is).

Remember not long ago when African-American agents won their lawsuit that charged discrimination against hiring and promotion by the institutionalized racist bigotry in the FBI workplace? Multi- multi-million$ awarded to the non-EuroWhitey agents.

FBI false-arrest victims getting damages awards ought to be paid (not by taxpayers) but out of the paycheck of the Fascist Bureau of Injustice agents on the scene -- the first time it cost them every penny they make for the rest of their lives is the last time it would happen.

Like LucsAdvo said: Learn the history and discover FBIers are the bad guys -- meet the public's #1 enemy.
Like Mick Jagger sings, ('Sympathy for the Devil'), ... what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game, ooh yeah
Just as every cop is a criminal
... just call me Lucifer
I'm in need of some restraint. Such as: Stop crime: abolish the FBI?

I know, I know, it sounds heretical; everyone wants things to be the way everyone wishes things were, not the way things really are.

Maybe if there was a veto for the line item expenditure on 'fake bomb materials' the FBI plays with ...

Baltimore bomber faces charges of attempted murder, France24, 08/12/2010 - FBI - terrorism - USA
(... Europeans may get 'dd/mm' backwards but they got it right about "FBI terrorism")

A twenty-one year old Muslim convert is facing charges after attempting to bomb ... using an explosive provided by an undercover FBI agent that he didn’t realise was a fake.

... which was 'fake' -- the bomb or the FBI agent?

``There was no actual danger to the public as the explosives were inert and the suspect had been carefully monitored by law enforcement for months,'' the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland said in a statement. ... on the FBI's radar screen since October.

The case is similar to one in Portland, Oregon, .... After that case became public, Martinez called the FBI source he had been working with on the Maryland bomb plot, according to court documents, which said he seemed worried about another person that ... was an undercover FBI agent.

Joseph Balter, the public defender assigned to represent him, cautioned against a rush to judgment. ``It's very very early in this case,'' he said. White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the arrest underscores the need for vigilance against terrorism and illustrates why the Obama administration is focused on addressing ``domestic radicalization.''