Earlier this year, all eyes nationwide turned toward Cleveland after five self-professed anarchists were collared by the feds for allegedly plotting to send the Ohio 82 bridge sky high.
In anarchist circles, blowing bridges is like a big anti-establishment middle finger, and this was meant to express the Occupy outrage the plotters found in that movement but felt had yet to be — how should be say — emphatically communicated to the body politic. This was supposed to be a statement written in bridge rubble.
But as we know, the feds had a man on the inside, and the Cleveland Five were arrested after detonating a dub bomb. Whether or not the informant actually gently guided the five young ones toward terrorism — that will be the likely argument playing out in court between the defense and prosecution.
But at least one of the plotters has caved. According to the Plain Dealer, at a hearing today Anthony Hayne pleaded guilty to the charges and roll on the remaining four.
This article appears in Jul 18-24, 2012.
Folks from Occupy Cleveland tried to blow up a bridge and blow up my neighbors and fellow citizens. FUCK OCCUPY CLEVELAND and may they rot in Hell.
This isn’t something that was done by the Occupy Cleveland people, this is done by guys that are anarchists and merely fans of the Occupy movement. That being said, I don’t care how much you want to cause anarchy or fight the establishment, or whatever other stupid bullshit you tell yourself. You do stupid shit like this, even pleading guilty, you need to be locked away for a really freaking long time. I also find it ironic that this guy hated the system enough to try and blow up a bridge, but yet pleads guilty so he can play the system and try for less jail time.
Send this dude over to where the real terrorists are. He won’t last 10 minutes.
just dumb street kids who got coerced by a informant who needed a situation so he created one, basically entrapment