Right-Wing Refuses To Believe Cleveland Bombers Are NOT Part Of Occupy Movement

[Ian David]

Right-Wing Refuses To Believe Cleveland Bombers Are NOT Part Of Occupy Movement

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Like many of his right-wing brethren, Sheffield leaps willfully in a thinly-veiled attempt to not only suggest that the five suspects taken into custody by the FBI were perhaps connected to the OWS movement, but are, undeniably, active leaders of the grassroots and widely non-violent protest.

Within the very first line of his post, he sets the stage:

“The leaders of the plot to bomb an Ohio highway bridge are members of the ‘Occupy’ movement,” he writes, “ but you won’t find that information in much of the mainstream media coverage of the story.”

Appalled by the “mainstream” media’s reluctance to cover a story that has no merit, Sheffield laments the would-be bombers’ connections to OWS yet offers absolutely no proof whatsoever to his condemnation, save for a brief link-out to a Breitbart.com story of the same nature and – as typical of most things pushed by the Breitbart moniker – a distinct slant on reality.

But even that withstanding, the Breitbart piece alone portrays the band of anarchists’ sheer displeasure with the Occupy Movement’s lack of violence and ultimate separation; where author Dan Riehl quotes an unnamed source in which the members ridiculed Occupy for not being on par with their violent, anarchistic world views.

More:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/02/right-wing-refuses-to-believe-cleveland-bombers-are-not-part-of-occupy-movement/

In other words, these are dudes who hated the Occupy movement for NOT being violent.

[leftyohiolib]

1. the cleveland news paper said in an article that they were part of ows

Bridge bomb plot: Suspects were active in Occupy Cleveland, even as movement slowed to a crawl
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=111398

[librechik]

3. citing this article is like citing something from Hannity or Erickson on Fox--The Plain Dealer

is a Repub rag. There is no evidence that the alleged bombers were anything more than standing around on the street where Occupy was. They are not "members" of Occupy and certainly not leaders. Occupy attracts all kinds of hangers-on who aren't "Occupy."

The very fact that they espoused violence violates the number 1 precept of Occupy. They are non-violent by definition.

But of course the RW megaphone will pounce on any association to blacken Occupy's reputation. It's what they do. Guilt by association is there ONLY strategy.

""While the group arrested Monday evening by the FBI [was] associated with Occupy Cleveland, they were in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland or the event that was planned for later today," the organization said in an email. "Occupy Cleveland has affirmed principles of nonviolence since its inception on Oct. 6, 2011."

yep--Obama associated with terrorists by attending a tea party when he was 9. These guys had the same kind of "association" to Occupy. That is, not really.

[leftyohiolib]

4. i fully agree. and thats exactlly what i said in the post that i linked too

i didnt link to it saying here's the proof that the idiot5 were part of ows. it was more an answer to the op's question why the Right-Wing Refuses To Believe Cleveland Bombers Are NOT Part Of Occupy Movement
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they refuse to believe it cause of news sources like the pd stating they were

[zbdent]

2. if the "Cleveland Bombers" were evidence of the "average OWS" person ...

then the KKK only changed its name to the TEA Party ...