The US Justice Department has today announced the results of the latest in a long line of FBI agent–fueled “terror plots” involving fake explosives, arresting five members of the Occupy Cleveland movement as terrorists.
The report said that none of the five were involved with any actual terror groups, but had been under FBI monitoring for months as suspected dissidents. An undercover FBI agent eventually convinced them to plant a phony bomb under a bridge in a Cleveland suburb, providing the justification for the arrests.
Officials say that the five were “angry with corporate America” and that one of them was secretly recorded as saying that if the bridge was downed it would “cost the corporate big wigs a lot of money.” There were no actual explosives involved and the bridge was never in any actual danger.
Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins said he personally knew four of the five from the protest movement, saying that they were very public in their “anarchist beliefs.” Others who met the five expressed surprise at their arrest, saying they “wanted to get people to get loud” but had never advocated violence.
This is the second major FBI plot in the last few months. in mid-February the FBI arrested a US Muslim in Washington DC after putting a phony suicide vest on him and telling him to attack the capital building.
Looks like a case of FBI entrapment to me.
I wish they'd walk into a corporate boardroom and offer an illegal scheme to make billions of dollars, then arrest any executives who bit on that bait. But no, they'll never be the target of such a scheme.
That has already been done. It was the bailout of 2008 yet nobody (wink wink) was punished. Oh, lest we forget, there was also the Fannie Mae debacle as well…. which the blowhard Gingrich profited mightily from with his so-called "consulting".
On the bright side, the Feds aren't focused anymore on entrapping only Muslims!
Anarchists are the new Muslims, two minute hate time in front of the wall screen citizens, achtung!
Yes the U.S. Federal government is using a combination of 1984, and the absurdist dystopian movie Brazil as its plot line. 🙁
Of course, simply put, “the FBI agent–fueled” means entrapment of some unemployed, hapless young men.
I thought our G-men were in the business of capturing terrorist not manufacturing bullsh*t.
"I thought our G-men were in the business of capturing terrorist not manufacturing bullsh*t."
And now you know the truth. You're on the steep part of the learning curve. Excellent!
terrorism from any groups, destined to kill innocent persons is wrong. But, in this instance, these persons are non-Muslims so the effect of this arrest and report will die quickly. This is the state of affairs in the western world. In general, the US public has deemed attempted acts of terrorism by a Muslim the greater of the crime than from non Muslims.
These five confused wretched souls are the same guys who recently left the Boy Scouts under a cloud of merit badge suspicion and then deposited a bag of flaming dog poo on the Assistant Patrol Leader's front door. Arson, conspiracy, grand theft dog poo and probable involvement with the bridge troll. All Capital Crimes.
You can't be too 'proactive' in the war on terror. (Much)
But wait until the first time there's a real attack while somebody's busy doing a 'spoof'.