Gateway Arch bomb plot stopped by maxed out EBT card?

 Last week two men were arrested for allegedly planning to blow up the Gateway Arch as well as plotting to kill both St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson as part of the Ferguson protests.

  However these plotters apparently ran into a little problem because they could not afford to buy more bombs until one suspect’s girlfriend’s EBT card was reloaded.

  Here is more:

Sources say the men planned to kill St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, and also planned to bomb the famed Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the men bought what they believed to be a pipe bomb from undercover police but could not afford more bombs “until one suspect’s girlfriend’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished.”

  At this point I have to admit that I have a problem with this type of sting operation because it seems to me that in some cases the authorities actually entice people into committing crimes they otherwise would not have conceived of on their own. The authorities can then claim a victory for thwarting an attack which they enticed in the first place, and which otherwise had no chance of becoming a reality, or of which was never any real threat until they made it a threat. It reeks of entrapment in many cases…

  I have no idea if that is the case here but I will say this: In my opinion this shows us that it might just be time to look at reforming the EBT system. When an EBT card can be used to acquire cash which can then be used to buy bombs we might just have a small problem with the system as it is currently instituted and implemented…