3 arrested for "domestic terrorism" at NATO summit in Chicago

[Catbird]

"3 terror suspects at NATO summit were plotting to hit Obama's campaign HQs"

"Three men charged with conspiring to commit domestic terrorism during the NATO summit were plotting to attack President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, the Chicago mayor's home and police stations, authorities said Saturday.

A police investigation that began early this month revealed that the three suspects are "self-proclaimed anarchists" and members of the "Black Bloc" group who traveled together from Florida to Chicago to commit violence as a protest against the NATO summit, authorities said in a statement.

..."The individuals that we have charged in this investigation are not peaceful protesters. They are domestic terrorists who came to Chicago with an anarchist agenda to harm our police officers, intimidate our citizens and to attack their politically motivated targets," said Alvarez."

I think the larger story that will come of this is about the "Black Bloc" and what, if any, role it plays in future demos and Occupy movement activities, especially this summer. The "Black Bloc" ideas and tactics have been around for a while but now that it's been "officially" associated with "domestic terrorism", I suspect that more and more people at demonstrations will be arrested for having supposed ties with the "Black Bloc". I'm betting we'll hear a lot more about them in August and September, during the political conventions.

Some further reading about Black Bloc:

Wiki

Beware the Black Bloc

[Potemkin]

Originally Posted by Catbird

"3 terror suspects at NATO summit were plotting to hit Obama's campaign HQs"



I think the larger story that will come of this is about the "Black Bloc" and what, if any, role it plays in future demos and Occupy movement activities, especially this summer. The "Black Bloc" ideas and tactics have been around for a while but now that it's been "officially" associated with "domestic terrorism", I suspect that more and more people at demonstrations will be arrested for having supposed ties with the "Black Bloc". I'm betting we'll hear a lot more about them in August and September, during the political conventions.

Some further reading about Black Bloc:

Wiki

Beware the Black Bloc

"This autonomous group of 50 youth, mostly boys, dressed in black, bent on being scary and provocative came and stole the entire narrative of the story,"*said John Sellers of Seattle’s Ruckus Society.
Sellers was the leader of a large demonstration against the World Trade Organization in 1999. He calls Black Bloc demonstrators "parasites"*because of their tactics of blending with other demonstrators before lashing out on their own.


Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/feature/g7...#ixzz1vPtcgugQ

This.

They are known for stealing actions at legitimate protest and using for their own means, even when you don't want them there.

All your organizations ends up with is a black eye with The Man, and hassle.

[dyrt]

Whatever, the Black Bloc is just another actor in the theater of summits. If the those spoiled rich kids did not exist, NATO would have to supply them.

[Potemkin]

[Malcolm]

"Domestic Terrorism"????........... I think this is crap.
When G.Bush was in Australia there where protests and I went to the one in Sydney. ....none of the police wore "BADGES" and they claimed it was because some one might rip one off and use it as a "weapon........they ALL wore guns though

[Potemkin]

[Lars]

I bet the Back Bloc leaders deliberately chose that name to provoke racial tensions. Anarchists suck.

[Kassy]

Originally Posted by Lars

I bet the Back Bloc leaders deliberately chose that name to provoke racial tensions. Anarchists suck.

The names came from Germany in the early eighties. The protesters wore all black and were then named the Black Block by the media.

[Lars]

Originally Posted by Kassy

The names came from Germany in the early eighties. The protesters wore all black and were then named the Black Block by the media.

ok, the media are racist scum