Occupy Movement implodes in Cleveland plot

Kevin O'Brian:

What a lucky, lucky week this has been for Greater Cleveland -- especially for whichever unsuspecting souls were driving across the Ohio 82 bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley while five petty criminals associated with Occupy Cleveland were trying to community organize it.

The Occupiers, authorities tell us, thought they had rigged the span with plastic explosives that would detonate when they punched a code into a cellphone.

The only thing that went up in smoke, though, was their plot. They were working with dummy devices -- fitting -- sold to them by an FBI informant whom they failed to recognize as the Man.

I'm sorry. Your call to anarchist glory cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and dial again. And again. And again.

General Electric was lucky, too. Its lighting plant was to have been the site of an Occupy Cleveland protest about taxbreakssinglepayerAfghanistanenvironmentaldestructioncorporategreedCitizensUnitedjobtrainingstudentloandebtgayrightsdefensespendingteacherpayimmigrationpolicyChinesecurrencyshenanigansIraqGlassSteagallforeclosures.

And, of course, the Occupiers' No. 1 concern: people who live more responsibly and thus have more money than they do.

Once the alleged bomb plotters' arrest became public, the unions and leftist organizations that were going to bring the party favors to the GE May Day demo backed out. In Cleveland, rigging public bridges for destruction is still considered bad form.

So it seems that the "mainstream" Occupy movement -- here, at least -- still sees some value in the good opinion of the 99 percent, which is to say the percentage of Americans who are in no way associated with the Occupy movement.

Hence, the desperate attempt of Occupy Cleveland and its enablers to distance themselves from bomb planters with whom the record shows that they are all too well acquainted.

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The Occupy Movement further embarrassed itself with demonstrations in other cities around he country.  This left wing front groups has spun out of control and appears to be dominated by anarchist who find organizing difficult work.   The Unions hoped these groups would help Obama  and other Democrats get elected, but they are much less than a poor man's Tea Party.