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Re:'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import by mrkeen on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:33PM (#43488237)
That kid stated he tried to contact ISIS, had pledged allegiance to the current ISIS leader, expressed a desire to be an ISIS recruiter, and to build and detonate a bomb at a government building. (June 2021).

It looks like he was searched on 6 October 2021 and granted bail on 8 October.

I don't know what the conditions of his bail were, but when it was revoked in June 2022, his

  Google searches involved topics such as “10 ways to cover up a murder”, “how to murder”, “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught” and references to a schoolteacher.
  
  https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Application%20for%20bail%20by%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2022%5D%20VChC%204.pdf
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Re:'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import by nukem222 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:42PM (#43488307)
Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
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Re:'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import by msm_ on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:40PM (#43489571)
The 13 year old ISIS supporter is a different person than the 24 year old plutonium science nerd. You're discussing a different person than TFA was about.
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Re:'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import by trhway on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:15PM (#43488587)
That exactly sounds like some unhealthy obsession of a mentally unhealthy individual. It should be treated as mental disease, not as a crime, especially given the age and already established medical condition of autism.
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Re:'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import by bigfatkitten on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:40AM (#43492991)
And that's how it was being treated by the state police, before the feds engaged the kid online, and actively and deliberately undermined his rehabilitation.
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