Quiz: True or False? Teenagers among arrestees in “terrorist plot”

Today’s SCMP front page

Son John and I were wondering. Is this true? Were there really terrorists? Or was it a police frame up?

We thought: yes it’s certainly possible that some crazy young kids should think resorting to violence is the way forward. We also thought, yes it’s possible — disturbingly more so than a few years ago — that the police would frame them. 

Overall, though, if we had to bet, we’d bet in its being true. They really did catch some kids in the act of would-be terrorism. After all, we saw them do crazy stuff in 2019. I saw them with mine own eyes.

Random fact: we’ve been playing chess. It’s 10-0 to John. Despite which I remain hopeful of winning some day…