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On 17 April 2021, his parents went to a police station and asked for help

First mistake.


his father told police “he was prepared to sacrifice my son for the safety of the Australian community”.

Kinda shitty parents, damn.


An online covert operative was tasked with communicating to Thomas using two personae: a 24-year-old Muslim man from NSW, and a more extreme person located overseas.

The purpose of the operation was to find Thomas online and “engage him in chat to ascertain his intent if any”, the operative told the court. The strategy was to gather intelligence and information that could be used to charge Thomas with terrorism offences.

On the first occasion Thomas spoke with the operative online, he asked the officer: “are you a spy” and “do you work with the Asio”, to which the operative, in the role of the first persona, responded “I hate these killab [dog]”.

The operative then wrote “should I ask the same of you akhi” to which Thomas replied “I am 13 years old”.

The operative chatted with Thomas on 55 of the next 71 days, including during breaks at school and late at night.

The operative told an operational psychologist, who was expected to provide advice to him about how to communicate effectively online with Thomas, that “this … is a kid on the spectrum, I’m letting him do all the talking [and] just building rapport”.

There were 1,400 pages of online chats between the pair, Fleming found.

The first persona introduced Thomas to the second, more extreme, persona, who encouraged him to make a bomb or kill an AFP member. But the operative gave evidence that Thomas was naive, and living a “fantasy life online”, including by asking questions like whether he could join the kids’ section of Islamic State.

  • @WithoutFurtherBelay
    hexbear
    103
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    > have special interest in Islamic state
    > parents literally report it to the cops
    > after all this insane shit finally meet someone online willing to talk about special interest
    > they let you infodump and everything, it’s great.
    > introduce you to someone else
    > they ask you to build a bomb and kill people
    > wtf.jpg
    > ask if they have a kid’s group or something that does less dangerous shit
    > later, find out the truth
    > cops gaslight you, a 13 year old, into believing they are talking to a Muslim man and a separate fake person who will encourage them to do illegal things, because your parents reported you to the police
    > YFW

    wtf

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexbear
      39
      5 months ago

      We just need to get to him before the fascists do and explain what opsec is and how we don't do any of that boring opsec bullshit in the news mega and would love 1400 pages of cross referenced analysis about any geopolitical shit he finds fascinating right now.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
    hexbear
    88
    5 months ago

    In bad country, people live in paranoia of the secret police infiltrating their lives and arresting them on bogus charges

    • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]
      hexbear
      33
      5 months ago

      Just boomer grade privileged delusion. Appeal to authority, they'll just give the boy some tough love. Teach him a lesson. Maybe he can become a police man too. la la la la la la la la

  • VILenin [he/him]
    hexbear
    67
    5 months ago

    In gommulist Gyna, parents turn their own children in to the regime security forces for lack of sufficient loyalty to the state

  • Deadend [he/him]
    hexbear
    61
    5 months ago

    If only he had hyper fixated on trains or Goku :(

    • @WithoutFurtherBelay
      hexbear
      45
      5 months ago

      We need someone who hyper fixates on the various manipulation strategies that feds use and is also a comrade

      • Deadend [he/him]
        hexbear
        15
        5 months ago

        The hard part is the “also a comrade” as so much of the information on Fed shit is also laced with propaganda. Reading about the shit the NSA does tends to make people “I want to do that” not “I must find stop them”

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
      hexbear
      17
      5 months ago

      goku-halal "Hey, I heard you were strong, Thomas. Take some of my energy and kill the first Australian Federal Police officer you see"

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    54
    5 months ago

    Today's meeting we bring in some very bored and tired of having to fabricate reality to justify their existance fedposting. They're going to teach you how to take at risk youth and just work them enough to throw their life away to justify more of your peasants tax dollars to be wasted on phantoms,

    Also we're getting your thugs some nuke subs isn't that spiffy?

  • @TheCynicalSaint
    hexbear
    43
    5 months ago

    What a fucking great idea /s

    Oh yeah, 5 star idea there, folks.

  • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    27
    5 months ago

    Tale as old as time, although even more particularly despicable than usual due to them targeting a child and the parents throwing their kid under the bus in the first place.

    Read The Terror Factory

  • @material_delinquent
    hexbear
    18
    5 months ago

    Most humanizing treatment of autistic children by society at large.

      • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
        hexbear
        5
        5 months ago

        Couldn’t find the comprehensive list (didn’tlook very hard), but the one about anyone trying to get you to commit a crime is fbi and the one about explosives experts being informants comes to mind