Thursday, May 3, 2012

Cleveland City Councilman worked alongside Occupy bomb suspects, knew they were anarchists, invited Occupy to City Hall

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5/1/12, "Cleveland City Councilman Worked With Terror Suspects in Occupy Camp," Paula, RedState.com

"Cleveland Magazine has just posted an interview from the tents at Public Square in Cleveland with the shell-shocked reaction of the remaining Occupiers on receiving news that their comrades had been arrested for plotting to blow up an area bridge.

As I posted earlier today, the men have a clear link to the Occupy Cleveland movement and this article confirms that all five men were regular visitors to the Occupy Cleveland tent in downtown Cleveland....

What is perhaps most disturbing is that Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins, a vocal and active Occupy supporter, admits that he knew and worked alongside the suspects, even admitting that he knew they were anarchists....

Cummins, a member of the Green Party, has been an integral part of Occupy Cleveland’s activities since the movement began. He was present on the first day of the “Occupation,” offering advice about dealing with the city’s laws and regulations and helping them to secure the required permits. In October he invited his Occupier comrades for a personal visit to Cleveland City Hall:

"According to #OccupyCleveland, they were personally invited to Cleveland’s weekly city council meeting last night by Ward 14 councilman Brian Cummins. He is the only non-Democrat among the 19 council members — he is a Green.

According to #OccupyCleveland, “Members of the group received a tour of the grounds and sat in on a City Council meeting that turned out to be mainly about them. The group received a rousing round of applause, as well as the endorsements of many key Council members."...

Mayor Frank Jackson was also in attendance, seen shaking hands and smiling for #OccupyCleveland’s live feed of the event. The group later received endorsements from

  • Council President Martin Sweeney of Ward 18,
  • Councilman Matt Zone of Ward 15 and
  • Councilman Joe Cimperman of Ward 3.”

Apparently, though, the FBI doesn’t see any connection between the Occupy groups and the terror suspects:

“Let me be clear, the FBI and Department of Justice are not conducting an investigation of any specific group,” said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. “We do not investigate movements or groups, we investigate individuals.”

Personally, as someone who sends her husband to work in Cleveland every day, I would like them to be a bit more curious…no…a LOT more curious about what is going on in these camps and how many more violent anarchists they are harboring among them. Someone needs to be asking the leaders of Occupy Cleveland a few basic questions about exactly what level of violence they are willing to tolerate and at what point they would be willing to contact the authorities. Would they have called authorities if they knew what “Tony, Connor, Brandon, Doug and Skelly” had been considering? I’m not convinced that they would have. I must repeat what I posted in my earlier diary: there are known members of the group who are vocally opposed to turning criminals over to the police. From the Occupy Cleveland forum:

“Some of us are morally opposed to handing someone over to the cops and consider it a violent act…I can tell you for a fact that at least one other prominent Occupier is strongly opposed to calling police, for the same reasons stated here. Even when someone has committed violence, this person says, putting them through the criminal justice system only imposes more violence.”

And that terrifies me."

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