Our kids—the heart and soul of this movement—have watched us for years beating our heads against the walls of power, always marching on Washington, sending in checks to the environmental groups, giving up red meat—and what they got from this is that they are the first generation who will now be worse off than their parents. They still love us (which is remarkable when you think of the world we’ve handed them), but they are taking a different path from ours. Let them. The kids are all right. Do they know where their path will lead? Not necessarily—but that’s the beauty of Occupy Wall Street. The mystery of what’s ahead is the lure.
HATE WATCH
The Cleveland Five are a sad-sack collection of wannabe terrorists if there ever was one. The amateurish young men who plotted to destroy a bridge outside Cleveland last week give the impression of needing the attention of a guidance counselor as much as a federal prosecutor.
But there’s no mistaking the seriousness of their attempted act. They allegedly planted what they thought were live bricks of C-4 underneath a well-traveled bridge connecting two suburban Ohio communities and repeatedly tried to detonate them.
The Cleveland Five have the honor of being the first bombers spawned by Occupy Wall Street, and may not be the last. They rejected the nonviolence advocated by Occupy Cleveland’s leaders, but they were active in the movement and perfectly represent the “black bloc” anarchism that is a part of it. If their stupidity and recklessness are different in degree from their fellow self-styled revolutionaries, they’re not different in kind. They’re the left’s homegrown terrorists.
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As far as terroristic “propaganda of the deed” goes, an Ohio bridge doesn’t make any less sense as a target than the Greenwich Observatory that anarchists wanted to destroy in Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent.”
Blowing up a bridge is like smashing a window — a favorite pastime of the anarchists at West Coast Occupy protests — only on a much larger and more hazardous scale. The spirit of nihilistic destructiveness is the same.
As is the flouting of laws and authority. This tendency isn’t limited to anarchists but is at the heart of Occupy.
Writing in The Nation, Michael Moore imagines “nonviolent assaults” (whatever that means) on Wall Street and “wave after wave of arrests” in an attempt to shut it down. The romance of confrontation with the police is more central to Occupy than any specific agenda item.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/occupy_dark_heart_1AHsq1ZSEQOisADMXlek4L#ixzz272QH3hrK
And the Adel Daoud case gets more bizzare--
The documents allege Dauod’s friend, listed only as “Individual C,” was closely involved in the plan for months. Daoud had allegedly originally considered targeting military recruiting centers, malls and tourist attractions until the friend came up with a “really good plan” for attacking a concert. They eventually scuttled that idea, however, and settled on the bar.
At some point, though, the documents show Daoud’s friend became nervous. He thought the undercover FBI agent was a spy. But the agent tried to reassure them, telling Daoud “anybody who spies must be killed.”
While the friend seemed have some reservations, it wasn’t until both he and Daoud were yelled at by a local sheik, who had heard them discussing jihad, that he reportedly decided he wanted out. The documents don’t name the sheik or say which mosque he was from.
On Aug. 18, the affidavit says, Daoud talked to the undercover FBI agent, who “explained that, as a result of this intervention, Individual C no longer wanted to be involved in the attack because he had reservations about killing ‘random americans,’ as opposed to those involved with the United States military.”
Daoud’s father also told him to stop talking about jihad, according to the affidavit. But the interventions didn’t dissuade the teen. He allegedly went ahead with the plan after a conversation with an undercover FBI agent, who said the a foreign sheik “wanted to make sure this is something that is in your heart.”
“He wants to make sure you have no doubt in your heart,” the agent said, according to the affidavit.
Daoud replied that there was “sufficient proof that this in my heart.”
On Monday, Dauod’s attorney said the FBI had guided his client the whole way, from when he was 17.
“The way the government thinks is if they find somebody on the Internet that might be talking about radical Islamic beliefs, what they do then is they have to make sure he is not going to commit terrorism, so they invite him along,” defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “I guess we have to wait and see whether or not he is going to blow up this fake bomb they have created for him. I find that somewhat suspicious.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/adel_daoud_sting_muslim_leader.php
Here is the entire criminal complaint --
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-read-the-entire-criminal-complaint-against-daoud-20120915,0,5492896.htmlpage
Here is the entire criminal complaint --
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-read-the-entire-criminal-complaint-against-daoud-20120915,0,5492896.htmlpage
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