Revealed: The FBI Stopped the Cleveland Bomb Plot By Infiltrating Occupy Wall Street
- Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:20am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Douglas Wright, 26, one of the alleged plotters.
If you were wondering how, exactly, the FBI stopped five anarchists allegedly set on blowing up a bridge in Cleveland, now you have an answer: the Feds infiltrated Occupy Wall Street.
(Related: Get more details and see more pictures of the group)
The website The Smoking Gun got a hold of the U.S. District Court records, which show that the FBI had an informant who infiltrated the Occupy Cleveland movement:
It was at the October 21 OWS event that the informant first met Douglas Wright, 26, who reportedly confided details of his group’s planned attacks “against corporate America and the financial system,” according to court filings.
Pictured above, Wright eventually served as the informant’s bridge to the four other men busted in the bombing plot–despite the fact that the quartet was “unsure” about the snitch for whom Wright vouched. Of the five men arrested, four were involved in the Occupy Cleveland movement, according to their Facebook profiles, a news story, and a federal criminal complaint.
The documents also reveal more extensively the group’s thinking, including some of the ideas they didn’t implement (like one from a Batman episode):
* As the alleged plotters batted around assorted attack ideas–like bombing a “Nazi/Klan headquarters” or blowing up a Federal Reserve bank–Wright joked that he would wear a suicide vest and blow himself up, “but advised he would have to be very drunk.”
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* Wright suggested using Google Maps to figure out the area near the Cleveland-area bridge “where the bombs will be dropped and the get-away route.”
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* Baxter also “suggested getting tacks that they could throw out of the back of the car if they get in a chase.” This getaway tactic was last successfully used in a Batman episode from 1967.
You can read more about the group’s plans over at The Smoking Gun.
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Comments (37)
Viet Vet
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:52pmI think what the comments demonstrate is just how friggen insane Libertarians are.
Report Post »g00gle-expert
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:26pmCorrect. Everyone is insane with the exception of yourself and those that agree with you.
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”
Report Post »gsosbee
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 4:47pmThe plot was hatched & foiled by the fbi thugs for public show.
The fbi are the most dangerous terrorists on earth:
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html
http://lombardia.indymedia.org/node/45619
http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/03/must-prosecute-fbicia-assassins-for.html
http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/americans-embrace-their
The fbi assassins control police and at the same time train their police serial killers.
The fbi/cia/police/vigilantes have a message for the Target:
WE INTEND TO
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2OUrkgFp3d8/T2yJZ4tN4tI/AAAAAAAAAes/MJ5g_fgVY0U/s1600/kill.jpg
PS: http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2011/09/consent-of-governed-not.html
Report Post »gsosbee
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 4:45pmThe plot was at once hatched and foiled by the fbi thugs for public show.
The fbi are the most dangerous terrorists on earth:
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html
http://lombardia.indymedia.org/node/45619
Part One:
http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/03/must-prosecute-fbicia-assassins-for.html
http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/americans-embrace-their
Part Two:
The fbi assassins control police and at the same time train their police serial killers.
The fbi/cia/police/vigilantes have a message for the Target:
WE INTEND TO
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2OUrkgFp3d8/T2yJZ4tN4tI/AAAAAAAAAes/MJ5g_fgVY0U/s1600/kill.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-LkoGhEfQ&feature=share
The president ‘presides’ over fbi/cia sponsored chaos, murder and global
terror. The world’s population must focus on the real problem: the fbi/cia cointelpro which in one form or another threatens all peoples:
For the layman, ‘cointelpro’ may be loosely defined as information and technology systematically used by government agents and operatives (particularly fbi/cia) who, while asserting powerful influence over all branches of government at all levels (including the judiciary), engage in torture, imprisonment or murder of an expanding number of Targets.
A form of genocide is apparently in the making whereby a massive program (sometimes referred to as ‘cointelpro’) is now underway to remove/kill/control large num
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:32pmO.W.S. and the F.B.I. make preppers out of Cleveland, how funny. If the citizens only knew what our government isn’t telling them.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:28pmObama, wait until we start running negative ads where we tie your approval of OWS to these terror plots within our homeland. You have to go. You will be fired, God willing.
Report Post »Johann
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:26pmIt is disturbing that this was a clear case of entrapment;a method that has become more and more frequent since the new democrat-communist government has taken over. Beware of the FBI it now belongs to the Obama Chicago machine; right after Obama took over a group of alleged“ Christian terrorists ” were arrested in Michigan and charged with plotting to kill local law enforcment. The main evidence against them was an FBI double agent who facilitated the whole thing; the judge threw the whole case out of court but those people spent two years in prison suffering under the new democrat communist dictatorship. Beware do not believe anything the FBI , ATF, Secret Service says; they are the new SS of the American State.
Report Post »jsmpsn
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:01pmWhile I understand your point in this case the group just confided in this FBI agent. The FBI didn’t plan attacks, etc. I definitely understand your point as the FBI goes too far in pushing it’s so called “enemies” as stated in your above post.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:41amObviously, the DOJ was not aware of the FBI infiltrating OWS. Holder would never approve.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:28amIs there any Group easier to Infiltrate? All you have to do is not Bath for a Month and your in.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:33amLet’s not forget that the left fully supports them, so I say every single leftist in congress and the WH that said they support them is part of this plot and should be arrested as domestic terrorists and booted out of office NOW.
Report Post »don young
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:20amNow they will try to say they were set up and try and get off.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:10amSo…the FBI infiltrated a group of disillusioned losers and entrapped them in a crime they manufactured themselves?
Wow…my heroes.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:30amAm sure all of these liberal loons are being paid organized crime/obama dum-o-rats parties
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:27amWhy not offer them a fake nuclear weapon & then charge them with wanting to blow up New York?
A bunch of small time wannabees who are being used in election season.
Report Post »Nunyunuwi
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:19amGuess Who? looks like after Obama pardons his supporters so they can vote for him in the fall, they will be on the NEW White House Staff…. after all Obama surrounds himself with these type of people, in and out of suits. HIS KIND OF PEOPLE>.. after all HE Supports Occupy….
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:52amThese people will never be tried – Obama and Holder will make sure of that.
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:39amThe epitome of the liberal movement. All they know how to do is destroy, not create. The only monuments to the left are negatives. Deficits, ruins and craters are all they leave behind.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:28amYou are right. It takes a knowledgeable, skilled, focused, hardworking person to build something. It only takes an idiot with a sledge hammer to destroy it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:46amThe one guy has cool hair though, you’ve got to admit.
Report Post »wrazzlin1
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:29amWow…These guys must be the head of the New weather Underground. This braintrust has certainly brought the IQ of the original group up substantially.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:35amThey will all be college professors in 20 years.
Report Post »cal_105
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:24amDo you really think that General Holder and the DOJ will really prosecute them?? They will get off Scott free. Obama will probably give them a medal.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:39amtHEY WILL GET OFF BECAUSE THEY WERE SET UP. Some FBI spy hears these guys talking fantasies about bringing down the system and then suggest that he has a way for them to do it. They play along and FBI starts taping……clear cut entrapment
Report Post »mtorres20
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:22am5 losers from our failed education system.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:17amJZS
Told you so.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:00pmYeah, I was wondering about his comments that I read last night considering the first story that I heard about this yesterday had already tied them to the OWS crowd. What tickled me was hearing that the lefty newsies repeated the OKC bombing type reporting and blamed the right immediately. Wonder what they based that on considering there have never been any ‘extreme’ right wing acts of violence in this country ever. Just make believe.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:11amBut these are the people( ?) loved by Obozo, Piglosi and Reid
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:53amPrincess Nancy loves these vermin. Didn’t she say that the Occudorks were young, spontaneous, focused, and effective? LMAO!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:14amI am willing to bet the plot was the FBI guy’s idea. He just found the right pot heads to go along with it. Stupid hippies, like leading rats to cheese.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:31amAgreed, Lion- another feeb set-up to justify their increased budget and garner more control of we plebians.
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:45am“This getaway tactic was last successfully used in a Batman episode from 1967.”
funnest thing i have heard all week.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:43amWithout the “convenient” FBI push, these doped up pot heads would have continued being very small time!!! As for the connection with OWS….hmmm DUH! Still waiting for evidence about ANY ANY ANY Tea Party member, it’s just NEVER gonna show up!
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:39amIf you were to give birth to a home grown terrorists, OWS would be a great place to hide them. I haven’t heard the Dems praising them as much lately.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:37amHow will they blame the Tea Party?
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:56amEXACTLY!!!! The Tea Party is radical right-wing racists. Uh huh sure!!!! To date, pretty sure I haven’t heard ANYTHING about a Tea Party incident involving violence, bombs or even a legitimate case of racism coming from Tea Party rallies. We just won’t let the Libs/Dems get away with their false premises and lies. Therefore we must be RADICAL and violent!!! Sure…… Their latest tactic is to ignore the OWS radicals and just keep with the party line of Tea Party radical racists wanting to shoot POTUS or some other complete BS like that. If did that we’d be left with Biden or worse. HELL NO!!! Keep the bozo alive and let him get ahnialated in the election. That would be the best way because then they‘ll know that we see through their tactics and aren’t buying it. What‘s more they would see that we believe the values that we’re fighting to keep strong and the country we love and are fighting to keep is worth putting up with their constant poking and proding to save. In other words that what they‘re doing isn’t working and we see through them from a mile away. Thank you to Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, even O’Reilly for helping expose their ways and their agenda.
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