[lbo-talk] More On The Cleveland Anarchists (Was manufacturing anarchist news)

Bill Quimby quimbywm at gmail.com
Thu May 3 11:13:16 PDT 2012


If interested, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has more detail, including some fascinating "biographies" and criminal record histories of the 5 men involved, and comments from other Occupy members (they were welcomed, but evidently cautiously, to the meetings).

The fact that the Plain Dealer was able to print so much about them on the the day after the arrests demonstrates that the FBI had a very large dossier on them - can we assume that it has as large a one on everyone else in the Occupy communities? Yeah, right!

<http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/05/5_suspects_indicted_on_charges.html>

-Bill

On 5/2/2012 10:49 AM, Nicholas Roberts wrote:
> As the Occupy movement carries out massive May Day protests around the country,
> the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force is trumpeting the arrest of “self-proclaimed
> anarchists” and “terrorists” who allegedly conspired to destroy a bridge in Ohio.
> Integral to the development and advancement of this plot, however, were FBI agents
> themselves and an informant with a drug and robbery record.
>
> It should come as no surprise, then, that the announcement of these arrests was
> carefully unveiled yesterday, so that the top news story this May Day would not be
> about howanarchists are preventing home foreclosures, starting community
> gardens<http://whatthefuckhasoccupydone.com/>, teaching collective organizing
> skills, and re-framing class consciousness, but about how they were part of an
> FBI-guided “terrorist plot.”
>
> http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/fbi-anarchist-terrorists-may-day-ohio/5988/
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