The FBI arrested five suspects last night in what law enforcement describes as a plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland today. The local Cleveland Scene screengrabs some of their Facebook pages, including the one belonging to Douglas Wright, above.
On the right, the arrests are showing up as a case of "Occupy Leaders" gone way wrong. And it's true that you can find a couple of the suspects had been called Occupy organizers, in a Tumblr post and in this local report. Setting aside that Occupy is leaderless by design, these guys don't seem to have found fertile ground for destruction.
WRIGHT firrther stated that there were not enough anarchists in Cleveland to do what he wanted to do and that more people would be needed in order to help confuse and deter law enforcement. WRIGHT talked about how in other cities anarchists form a large crowd and the outer ring of the crowd will cause damage and riot. When the police show up, the outer ring merges into the center of the group and the center moves to the outside. This technique is called a "Black Block" and is designed to make it difficult for law enforcement to figure out who to arrest. WRIGHT said not enough people are in Cleveland to conduct this type of riot.
Occupy Cleveland has responded to the news by canceling a May Day demonstration. Minutes ago, the Occupy Cleveland posted this on Facebook:
While the group arrested Monday evening by the FBI were associated with Occupy Cleveland they were in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland or the event that was planned for later today at the GE Lighting building. The May Day Event that was sponsored by Occupy Cleveland, the North Shore AFL-CIO, Cleveland Jobs with Justice, Fight for a Fair Economy and SEIU Local 1 has been cancelled because of the alleged actions of the autonomous group arrested last night. Occupy Cleveland has had affirmed principles of non-violence since its inception on October 6, 2011.
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Hopefully these morons will get the maximum jail time.
And hopefully the OWS organization members will expel anyone espousing anarchy.
Will there be anyone left?
OWS is not an anarchy movement. So there should be the vast majority left over and crazies like these will be out in the cold.
If you look at my post below, San Fran, Manhattan and Cleveland....I'm sure it's not the majority, but getting more common with each event.
Nice try but wrong. I'm sure it makes you feel better to say the OWS is filled with anarchists but it has nothing to do with the real world.
For instance, the Manhattan incident you link to does not have anything to do with OWS or anarchists. Some idiots sent some corn starch to somebody and nobody knows who did it - including you. The police sure don't know. For all we know it was you that sent the corn starch.
Your reply is just another example of lying to try and discredit folks.
Dave, do you comprehend what you read?
My post:
That translates to "filled"? Nice spin.
Also, do some additional reading, the article:
Along with other references that are anti-bank. Yeah, I'm sure these people are in no way aligned or even associate with OWS, they likely never even heard they were protesting on the same day, yeah I'm lying...*sigh*
Nothing says "we are the 99 percenters" like a blown up bridge. :)
Of course I know this is not the real Occupy movement which is has some valid complaints.
What I always find humorously ironic is the concept of anarchists organizing something. Also a true anarchist would run red lights on the way to the event (which was again planned and organized....an anarchist event planned :)). They should not be using government funded/maintained roads or even sleep in a building that again was built according to safety and zoning regulations and use the well built infrastuctures that go along with it - electricity and gas. And a pure anarchist shouldn't be using social media which is very, very corporate and orderly, function wise.
Just sayin....
Because anarchists are a bunch of dumbasses skip lol. Anarchists are probably the stupidest people on the planet.
This is a problem w/ left wing movements or movements associated w/ more left wing ideologies. Anarchists always attach themselves to these movements and take them as fodder to start riots and misbehaving. It's always been that way. Just like how racists and nazi bastards attach themselves to right wing movements. They are these annoying little pests that just won't leave you alone...kind've like cockroaches.
Sorry, but this annoys the hell out of me for personal reasons. When Katrina hit I started an aide drive for the Red Cross where myself and other students who worked w/ the Red Cross as volunteers would go out and wash cars and hold other charity events to try to gather money and supplies for the New Orleans victims. One huge event we did was we held an open school play that everyone in the theater, band, orchestra, and choir put together to try to raise money. It was completely student run and because it wasn't an official school event we had to hold it at a private facility so we ended up raising money to rent out the local performing arts theater and then used the rest of the proceeds to help Katrina victims. When we were there the thing ended up getting crashed and ruined because a bunch of anti-war protestors and anarchists showed up throwing rotten fruit so that they could protest Bush. I hated Bush too and thought he was an awful POTUS, but that had nothing to do w/ the event. It was so infuriating because it took like 4 months of planning and was the last thing I did as a senior in high school. Siiighs
@The Mouzer I'm not an anarchist, but in my experience, most anarchists are not violent, just as most adherents of any given political philosophy are not violent. If anything, true anarchists tend to think about issues too much and too long for common tastes. Consensus building can be slooooow.
What happened to your Katrina event does sound infuriating, whoever was involved.
I would not have accused you of being an anarchist Laura. Unless you're proposing that you no longer have to listen to Maddow ;-). But I think I understand you. You make a fair point.
Now here I thought all the anarchists had jumped over to the Republican Party when they started calling themselves "Libertarians".
Nice to know that the left managed to keep a few of the crazies. Can't let the GOP have them all.
Some people just don't belong in a sane society. In fact I would assert that these fools give insanity a bad rap! I feel sure that since this is a terrorist threat that they will be sent straight to jail with no trial or any rights. What is good for the goose...
Right Wing, Take Note:
The Left Wing has no problem labeling these d-bags as terrorists, who deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We will not apologize or hand-wring that the bridge shouldn't have been blown up, but that systemic problems of income inequality in our culture do make them awfully tempting targets.
Now look to the entourage of bombers and assassins going after women's health clinics and their workers and honestly say you do the same.
No, that's ok. We won't hold our breath. You've been delightfully predictable when it comes to taking responsibility for your own terrorists.
Show me where anyone on the right supports bombers of clinics or does anything but condemn them, I won't hold my breath either.
So, you are tempted to blow up a bridge and cause damage to innocents? Disgusting.
but that systemic problems of income inequality in our culture do make them awfully tempting targets.
So....blowing up a bridge which is used by a LOT of 99 percenters will definitely solve income inequality :). And of course taxpayer money - probably in the millions would be needed to repair the bridge - taxpayer money that could have been used to help the lower tiers of society.
I know your are not condoning the act Ponygirl, but you would think that EVEN the anarchists would think their action through and realize that it would greatly affect the common folks much more than the upper crust or "the man" - the government. If anything I am sure some of the 1 percenters that own general contracting companies will make MORE money when the govt awards them the contract to repair the bridge. But of course an anarchist may not want the bridge there since it is a symbol and a tool of the state. But even that is not thought through - since if you start destoying the bridges and other means of transportation, even the anarchists would have a hard time getting to the next town to destroy :).
Sorry if that was unclear, that entire segment was under the negative at the beginning of the sentence. IE, we won't do what the anti-choicers do by saying "oh we don't approve of killing people BUT they had it coming."
You can bet this is what will make it on all of the MSNBC and other MSM outlets. Not all of the other successful and orderly other Occupy events. Just watch and listen and document.
Right, depending on what you consider successful and orderly I guess:
San Francisco
http://news.yahoo.com/may-day-eve-quickly-turns-ugly-san-francisco-091023433.html
Manhattan:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/30/threatening-letters-containing-white-powder-sent-to-manhattan-banks/
Apparently Eric! doesn't read his own links
The other article also doesn't assert that a connection actually exists, but rather the police are looking to see if a connection exists because of the anti-wall street sentiment. Which basically means anyone could be using May 1st as a guise to go after banks.
Eric is lying again.
When you post a link you should bother to read and understand the link first.
The Manhattan incident you link to does not have anything to do with OWS or anarchists. Some idiots sent some corn starch to somebody and nobody knows who did it - including you. The police sure don't know. For all we know it was you that sent the corn starch.
Um, Dave how does this not sound like OWS?
Coincidence? Sure, and I've got a bridge to sell you.......if Occupiers don't blow it up first. Well, at least you agree that they are idiots.
Mouzer, they can blame outsiders all they want, but OWS has in the past has been illegal and sometimes violent tenancies. They are moving away from "peaceful". What group in recent memory has gone after the banks?!?
"A few bad apples, " etc. As G W Bush said, about Abu Garaib.
Or, to go back to my callow youthiness, Angela Davis, who had her picture in every post office across the land.
Individuals are responsible for their actions, but others are not. "Tarred with a broad brush," etc.
Further proof if proof was necessary that these so-called "anarchists" are as much The Enemy as the righties are. They're even better than police provocateurs, since they're willing to do it themselves and they don't care if it smears everyone who's genuinely willing to get out and work for change, something these lazy, politically-illiterate morons wouldn't know anything about. I hope they get the rest of their lives in a cell so far underground they have to pump air in to them, for their idiocy.
They're like the socialite-socialist "Weathermen" who managed to destroy the left 40 years ago with their brain-dead b.s.
Whatever happened to putting a pig on the ballot and bringing it to the convention anyway?
Has James O'Keefe been sighted anywhere near this operation?