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Occupiers, NATO, Chicago, & Molotov cocktails.

You know how this ends.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 19th, 2012 at 10:00 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Tell me you’re surprised.

Three out-of-state men arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid days before the NATO summit were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device, their attorney and police said early Saturday.

The arrests were the result of a month-long investigation into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails — crude bombs usually created by filling glass bottles with gasoline, according to law enforcement sources and police records obtained by the Tribune.

Can’t do it, huh?

Yeah, well, neither can I. These winners are getting represented by the National Lawyers Guild – you’d think that the Chicago Tribune might have mentioned that the NLG is a far-Left group that never met a group of America-hating would-be mass murderers that it didn’t like – and are claiming that their bomb-making equipment – excuse me; alleged bomb-making equipment – is actually for home-brewing beer. Plus, it’s all a fascist plot to go after peaceful protesters! Jack-booted THUGS! OFF THE PIGS! OFF THE PIGS! …Oops.

More seriously, and my cynicism aside, these people are innocent until proven guilty – despite their choice of representation by freedom-hating fanatics, their apparent affiliation with a movement that is increasingly under the sway of a different, more violent group of freedom-hating fanatics, and even their proximity to an event that pretty much everybody is assuming will come under literal assault by various groups of freedom-hating fanatics. It could even be true that Chicago cops really can’t tell home-brewing equipment from bomb-making equipment. Fair’s fair: just because the hardcore Progressive Left can’t stand my country’s and my culture’s values doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t respect those values, myself. Still, and again: is anybody here surprised that arrests were made involving Occupiers and incendiary devices? I mean, is anybody REALLY surprised? Particularly after Occupy Cleveland’s May Day bridge bombing attempt; we all knew that more outrages could occur from those people.

I mean, it’s not like they’re Tea Partiers or anything.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • macbookben

    …between the NLG and OWS’ers, which ones are the scumbags?

  • johnt

    at some point they’ll start to get a bad press.

  • http://MichaelHarrington.org Michael Harrington

    They would need to bomb the media… TWICE!

    The first time the media would try to make it look like the Tea Party did it while inserting commentary on how silencing a liberal press is bad.

    The second time they would realize OWS does not think they are liberal enough and therefore they would fry OWS.

  • Dave_A

    ntxt

  • renl57

    “claiming that their … alleged bomb-making equipment ? is actually for home-brewing beer.”

    Easy way to test this.
    Fill one bottle with that liquid from the equipment.

    Then tell the National Lawyers Guild lawyer to drink the contents.

    If it’s beer, it’s on the house. Cheers!

    If it’s gasoline, well, the Revolution demands much from all comrades.

  • http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/ Paula

    also considered the NATO gathering as a potential target. Nice to know that the FBI has a bead on these terrorists.

    At least two of the “Cleveland 5″ are claiming entrapment by the informant as their defense. It’s becoming the most-favored narrative on leftist sites.

    As far as the bomb-making beer machines….pretty handy if you can figure out a way to kill two birds with one stone like that. The “Cleveland 5″ used the 1970′s Anarchist Cookbook to find recipes. Wonder if they have beer-bomb instructions?

  • kzimm

    How is this issue/topic left vs. right? The three people arrested are clearly anarchists, according to their own words. If anything, anarchists are as far right as you can get, they want the smallest government, no government.

    I don’t believe either party supports anarchy…

  • checkmate2012

    n/t

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    A number of Democrats have endorsed the anarchist Occupy movement.

  • kzimm

    I’m sorry, which Democratic politicians have supported anarchy? The “Occupy” movement is not an anarchist movement. Yes, the structure is anarchist, in that there are no leaders, but the group itself does not encourage governmental anarchy. They want increased government regulation of banks/financial instituions, fewer austerity measures, government bail-outs for mortgage holders, less wealth inequality, etc. None of those things are anarchist, they are looking for the expansion of government, not the elimination of government. Even Mitt Romney understands, having said, “I look at what’s happening on Wall Street and my view is, boy, I understand how those people feel.”

    These people may have participated in the Occupy movement, but they clearly do not follow the ideals of the movement. They latch onto it to feel included and use it as an excuse for violence, just like Operation Rescue (and other anti-abortion groups) separated itself from Scott Roeder.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Seriously.

  • kzimm

    I’m sorry that I don’t follow the exact same path you do, but I believe strongly in reduced scale of government, reduced government intervention, etc. and am certainly not a part of the ridiculous DailyKos crowd. The idea that anarchists, people who are against government, are somehow in-line with either the Democrats or Republicans is just ridiculous.

    Can you please refute anything I say, or your only retort is calling me a clown?

    How is the Democratic Party possibly pro-anarchy? They are for bigger government, not for no government. As a more Libertarian minded individually, I’m closer to an anarchist than the Democratic Party.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …And you’re really not worth further ‘engagement,’ apologist.

    Shoo.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …and let the mask slip; it during that last sentence. Which is ironic, because (vainly) trying to equate the Left and the Right’s violent fringe in terms of influence, acceptance, and presence was the precisely the point of this – by God, yes! – this fool’s errand.

  • johnms

    Ok. I was a homebrewer for years. The equipment briefly shown in the video is most definitely homebrew equipment. They show two carboys, 5 gallon glass jugs, filled with what is obviously homebrewed beer, with ordinary pressure relief S-valves on the top. There’s no way you would have that in your house if you weren’t making homebrew, which takes some study and practice to do.

    Typical homebrewing equipment consists of a lot of plastic tubing, modified coolers, coils of copper pipe, thermometers, little plastic bags full of yeast nutrients, perhaps a bottle of iodine cleanser, and lots of empty, cleaned beer bottles. If you had no idea what all this stuff was for and were looking for bomb-making equipment, it would all look suspicious and you’d probably assume you’d found your bomb-making equipment, although any homebrewing expert could easily identify every piece of equipment and how it’s used in homebrewing beer.

    Now if the police really did recover malatov cocktails from the apartment, and have recordings of these east coast guys plotting attacks, then that’s another thing entirely. It seems very plausible that this homebrewing guy put up a couple of east coast protestors in his house, and either had no idea that these guys were planning to firebomb the summit or either him or the east coast guys thought that his homebrewing hobby would provide cover for their firebomb making. Or maybe they saw all his bottles and got the idea from that. “Hey, let’s fill some of these with gasoline.”

    Either way, homebrewer-guy chose his houseguests poorly. Hopefully the police have enough information to clear this guy if he really was taken advantage of by the east-coast guys.