Posted under Culture War & Terrorism
Remember the anarchist/antifa gang that tried to blow up a Cleveland bridge last May? Their goal was to boost the Occupy movement. (Not sure how that was supposed to work, but as you can see from their pictures, these boys can’t be firing on all cylinders. Maybe Arthur Jensen could tweak Spearman’s hypothesis to account for the low IQ of these Occupy types.)
Anyway, seems one of the conspirators, Anthony Hayne, has made a deal with prosecutors. And the antifa who once supported the “Cleveland 5″ are pitching a fit:
Anthony Hayne was brought into the court room wearing street clothes instead of the usual prison orange. Emotions were running high as what many of the supporters and loved ones feared the most unfolded before our eyes. Around 9:30 AM Anthony Hayne formally entered into a cooperating plea agreement with the government on the basis that he was found guilty on all three charges. The judge seemed hesitant about Hayne’s move, as it included a mandatory minimum sentence of roughly 16-20 years in prison (188-235 months served). The exact amount of time served would be dependent on the level of cooperation with the government. Formal sentencing will not occur until the trial is concluded.
As the Cleveland 5 support group, as friends and loved ones of all of them, we are shocked by his decision. Particularly by his decision to enter into a plea that would, by its nature, require the exchange of information that would implicate and/or potentially make worse the case of his other co-defendants. As this is and will remain a political case, we can no longer express support and advocacy on the behalf of Anthony.
Reckon Hayne will have to turn in his black hoodie?
RedPhillips on 27 Jul 2012 at 8:18 pm #
A self-loathing fool and a rat.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 27 Jul 2012 at 9:38 pm #
RedPhillips,
All leftists are self-loathing. With the “antifa,” it’s a defining characteristic.
Kirt Higdon on 28 Jul 2012 at 12:40 am #
Yet another FBI plot where the Fed agent provocateur provided the fake explosives. Another move to gin up terrorist angst, burnish the terror warrior credentials of the serial-killer-in-chief, and make sure the now almost extinct occupy movement doesn’t do anything embarassing to hinder BHO’s re-election.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 28 Jul 2012 at 1:31 pm #
Kirt Higdon,
I’m concerned about provocateurs myself, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all that government agents use them to entrap potential enemies.
But in this case we have people who breathe fire and wallow in threats of violence. Check out this passage from an antifa web site:
Make no mistake, we are not the least afraid of the ruins of a commuter bridge and the disrupted flow of capital, and we feel so much affinity for all those who desire to see our enemy’s infrastructure burn. But we have also learned lessons and have felt the success of tactics that can be easily reproduced by anyone who shares our hatred of society.
A hundred years ago, when dynamite was found at work or close to home, and so many had experienced the horrors of war firsthand, bombings were more common and readily produced. Nowadays, not many of us know where to get C4 or how to use it. When we consider the path of spectacular struggle, we should question ourselves and the possible outcomes. When others insist upon our involvement, we should know to disengage and advise our friends to do the same, long before they offer to supply the C4.
Sound like innocent activists to you?
Kirt Higdon on 28 Jul 2012 at 4:17 pm #
Sound like big-mouthed blowhards to me. I’ve heard or read the same or worse from activists of many different political persuasions. But actual terrorism in this country at this time is quite rare. When it comes out that practically every terrorist plot is controlled by the Feds from start to finish, I’d say we live in the most perfect police state in the history of the world. Even the Chinese rulers have way worse problems with violent dissidents, although they manage to keep most of it out of the media. Once in awhile you’ll have a genuine lone wolf who will take some life and cause damage. There is also the possibility of a government false flag operation which gets out of hand, but the rulers have to simultaneously terrify the sheeple and convince them that the rulers are keeping them safe. So the rulers can’t afford to permit any sustained terrorist campaign and they won’t. So why are you so worried about these antifa losers whom you yourself describe as “self-loathing” and “low IQ”?
HarrisonBergeron2 on 28 Jul 2012 at 5:10 pm #
Kirt Higdon,
It’s the least intelligent that resort to violence. It doesn’t take much IQ to fire a gun or improvise a bomb.
These losers are dangerous BECAUSE they’re losers.
And they do have the ability to close down meetings. Just ask Jared Taylor. Also read this.
RedPhillips on 29 Jul 2012 at 12:10 am #
HB, don’t sweat Kirt. He going to naysay anything with a racial angle the same way he naysays birtherism and my movie reviews. That’s just what he does.
Kirt Higdon on 29 Jul 2012 at 12:39 am #
Red,
What is the racial angle here? These supposed terrorists and their supporters are whites as far as I can tell, but I’ve said the same thing about supposed doofus loser black terrorists from Florida who were set up by the Feds. Do you see race in everything?
HB2,
Actually successful terrorists are pretty intelligent, even ones of the lone wolf or small conspiracy variety – e.g. Holmes, Breivik, the Unibomber, McVeigh, even the architects and operational commanders of the 9/11 attacks. It’s the stupid, big-mouthed losers who have to be dragged into these plots by the Feds. Shutting down meetings or buildings by threats is no big trick; it just requires cowardice on the part of those receiving the threats.
RedPhillips on 29 Jul 2012 at 2:46 am #
“What is the racial angle here?”
“Antifa” is short for anti-fascist, meaning in their addled brains anti-racist. For these self-loathers, anti-racism is their reason for being.