That's fucking wrong. Thing's are pretty bad when the cops are setting up crimes so they can bust them.
How's the War on Terror, fellas?
They were doing it with drugs way before that. Ever since entrapment was legalized back in the Gipper years, at least.
"Hey, can you get me some powder?"
"I don't fool with it, I wouldn't know."
*flashes fat bankroll* "C'mon, you're local, you've gotta know somebody..."...till the target says ALRIGHT ALREADY STFU.
This is the same thing. This should've told Brady to run like a scalded cat:
Bryan kept pushing Brady toward more radical "real militant action," asked Brady to teach him how to make Molotov cocktails, and hinted that he wanted to "make explosives" and do some "property damage" at Weyerhaeuser or at CEOs' houses, Brady remembers.