Good News: 'Occupy Boston' Holds Rally for Accused Terrorist

Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2011 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

The 'occupy' mob's organizational incoherence and moral bankruptcy continues apace:

 

The downtown protest group Occupy Boston threw its proverbial doors open yesterday, and played host to supporters of accused terrorist Terak Mehanna, who are looking to raise awareness of the Sudbury man’s upcoming trial.  The Tarek Mehanna Support Committee came to Occupy Boston’s ever-evolving tent city on the Rose Kennedy Greenway to say Mehanna, a Muslim American pharmacist, is a victim of anti-Muslim sentiment.  Occupy Boston hosted the pro-Mehanna rally, but, officially, the leaderless group doesn’t have a position on the case.

Say, who is this innocent "victim of anti-Muslim sentiment," anyway?
 

A pharmacist living with his parents in the suburbs of Boston was arrested on Wednesday on federal terrorism charges. The authorities said he had conspired to attack civilians at a shopping mall, American soldiers abroad and two members of the executive branch of the federal government.

The man, Tarek Mehanna, 27, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The conspiracy occurred from 2001 to 2008, the acting United States attorney, Michael K. Loucks, said at a news conference in Boston. Mr. Loucks said Mr. Mehanna, an American citizen, was unsuccessful in acquiring weapons to carry out the attack, and was also rejected by terrorist groups abroad.  Mr. Loucks said Mr. Mehanna had conspired with others, including Ahmad Abousamra, who the authorities said fled to Syria in 2006, and an unnamed informant. He is had “multiple conversations” about an attack on the mall in the United States, Mr. Loucks said.

“The conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders,” he said. But Mr. Loucks said the men could not obtain the automatic weapons they wanted for the plot, which he said was inspired by the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington area.  The authorities did not name the two members of the executive branch whom they said Mr. Mehanna and his associates had chosen as targets. The two are not now in office, Mr. Loucks said, and they were not in danger from the plot.

But wait, there's more!
 

At the time of his arrest on Wednesday, Mr. Mehanna was free on bail from an earlier arrest, in November 2008, at Logan International Airport in Boston, when he was charged with lying to federal investigators in a 2006 interview. Mr. Mehanna, prosecutors said, had sought to obtain automatic weapons from a friend, Daniel Maldonado, who was at the time a terrorism suspect. Mr. Maldonado is serving a 10-year prison sentence for training with Al Qaeda in Somalia.  The complaint filed on Wednesday also states that Mr. Mehanna and his associates traveled to Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, seeking training from terrorist groups to fight against American soldiers. But the groups rejected them.

This US citizen is innocent until proven guilty, of course, but it's not especially comforting that his "cause" has been given a platform by the  Occupy Wall Street so-called "movement."  This cretin has been indicted on multiple terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to murder Americans in shopping malls, butcher emergency responders, and assassinate US officials.  Right on cue, some super-patriotic Leftists have gallantly rushed to his defense, shrieking about "Islamophobia."  One of the most effective criticisms of these childish "occupy" protests is that they lack any real point, and have rapidly degenerated into typical, garden-variety Lefty grievance tantrums.  The "Free Mehanna" vigil in Boston reinforces that perception.  At least mainstream Democrats have been sensible enough not to embrace this mob.  Oh, wait.

Big Journalism's Diggrbiii snarked earlier that you wouldn't witness open support for terrorists at a Tea Party rally.  He's right, obviously, but I think he's missing an important point: The Tea Partiers are the terrorists, according to the Left.

[Cutterjohnmhb]

Momma taught me...”Birds of a feather flock together”

[Anti-Bubba182]

I have to believe the Democrats and Unions are making a big mistake getting involved with these people. I don’t think they will “wear well” and people watching will be turned off.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds to me like Barry, Pelosi and the rest of the ‘RATS are supporters of Islamoterrorists. Cool! You can always count on liberals to ALWAYS stick it to the pooch.

[Freddd]

I imagine Obama’s illegal alien family members will show up.

[Freddd]

‘say Mehanna, a Muslim American pharmacist,’-——

That right there is scary...

[DefeatCorruption]

“Helping Chinese illegals come to this country to get “services”....and then she says “I love this country”

Who was that whack job, who said she’s a member of the Chinese Progessives. spouting off on TV (just on Fox). This is getting downright scary.

[DeaconRed]

"I have to believe the Democrats and Unions are making a big mistake getting involved with these people. I don’t think they will “wear well” and people watching will be turned off."

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
When the opposing team is running the wrong way, you don't tackle him. . . . You let him keep running and take the free touchdown. . . .

[Yosemitest]

ANN COULTER: THIS IS WHAT A MOB LOOKS LIKE
www.anncoulter.com ^ | October 5, 2011 | ANN COULTER

Posted on 10/07/2011 3:18:43 AM PDT by Yosemitest

THIS IS WHAT A MOB LOOKS LIKE
October 5, 2011 by ANN COULTER

I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers.
To name three:
The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.

No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want -- as is typical of mobs.
They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street."
You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama,
who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government.


This would be like opposing fattening, processed foods, but cheering Michael Moore -- which the protesters also did this week.

But to me, the most striking difference between the tea partiers and the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd -- besides the smell of patchouli --
is how liberal protesters must claim their every gathering is historic and heroic.

They chant: "The world is watching!"
"This is how democracy looks!"
"We are the ones we've been waiting for!"

At the risk of acknowledging that I am, in fact, "watching,"
this is most definitely not how democracy looks.


Sally Kohn, a self-identified "community organizer," praised the Wall Street loiterers on CNN's website, comparing the protest to the Boston Tea Party,
which she claimed, "helped spark the American Revolution,"
adding, "and yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent."

First of all,
the Boston Tea Party was nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun.
Paul Revere's nighttime raid was intended exclusively to protest a new British tea tax.
(The Wall Street protesters would be more likely to fight for a new tax than against one.)

Revere made sure to replace a broken lock on one of the ships
and severely punished a participant who stole some of the tea for his private use.
Samuel Adams defended the raid by saying that all other methods of recourse -- say, voting -- were unavailable.

Our revolution -- the only revolution that led to greater freedom since at least 1688 -- was not the act of a mob.

As specific and limited as it was, however,
even the Boston Tea Party was too mob-like to spark anything other than retaliatory British measures.
Indeed, it set back the cause of American independence by dispiriting both American and British supporters, such as Edmund Burke.

George Washington disapproved of the destruction of the tea.
Benjamin Franklin demanded that the India Tea Co. be reimbursed for it.
Considered an embarrassment by many of our founding fathers, the Boston Tea Party was not celebrated for another 50 years.

It would be three long years after the Boston Tea Party when our founding fathers engaged in their truly revolutionary act:
The signing of the Declaration of Independence.

In that document, our Christian forebears set forth in blindingly clear terms
their complaints with British rule,
their earlier attempts at resolution,
and an appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for independence from the crown.

The rebel armies defending that declaration were not a disorganized mob, chanting slogans for the press and defacing public property.

Even the Minutemen, whose first scuffle with the British began the war, were a real army
with ranks, subordination, coordination, drills and supplies.
There is not a single mention in the historical record of Minutemen
playing hacky-sack, burning candles assembled in "peace and love," or sitting in drum circles.

A British lieutenant-general who fought the Minutemen observed,
"Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself very much mistaken."

By contrast, the directionless losers protesting "Wall Street" -- Obama's largest donor group --
pose for the cameras while uttering random liberal cliches lacking any reason or coherence.

But since everything liberals do must be heroic, the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd insists on comparing themselves to this nation's heroes.

One told Fox News' Bill Schulz:
"I was born to be here, right now,
the founding fathers have been passing down the torch to this generation to make our country great again."

The Canadian environmental group behind Occupy Wall Street, Adbusters, has compared the Wall Street "revolutionaries" to America's founding fathers.
(Incidentally, those who opposed the American Revolution fled after the war to ... Canada.)

The -- again -- Canadians exulted,
"You sense they're drafting a new Declaration of Independence."

I suppose you only "sense" it because they're doing nothing of the sort.
They say they want Mao as the president -- as one told Schulz -- and the abolition of "capitalism."

The modern tea partiers never went around narcissistically comparing themselves to Gen. George Washington.
And yet they are the ones who have engaged in the kind of political activity Washington fought for.

The Tea Party name is meant in fun, inspired by an amusing rant from CNBC's Rick Santelli in February 2009, when he called for another Tea Party
in response to Obama's plan to bail-out irresponsible mortgagers.

The tea partiers didn't arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence.
They're perfectly happy with the original.

Tea partiers didn't block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public.
They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments,
and petitioned the government against Obama's unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare.

Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home.
Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning.

In the two years following the movement's inception, the Tea Party played a major role
in turning Teddy Kennedy's seat over to a Republican,
making the sainted Chris Christie governor of New Jersey,
and winning a gargantuan, historic Republican landslide in the 2010 elections.
They are probably going to succeed in throwing out a president in next year's election.

That's what democracy looks like.

---

Just to help identify Marine One



Do you remember Obama turning tail and fleeing "Restoring Honor"?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Great!....PERFECT!....All these damn idiots on the left will bury themselves!

[Twinkie]

More confusing split personality stuff from the people who ELECTED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA in 2008. Has been typical of the “COMMUNITY ORGANIZER’S” administration throughout.

[Graybeard58]

I have to believe the Democrats and Unions are making a big mistake getting involved with these people. I don’t think they will “wear well” and people watching will be turned off.

I was an adult during the hippies hay days of the 60s and early 70s, when normal people were disgusted by the filthy hippies and their tactics. It will happen again. Hippies had children and grand children and that's who we are watching now.

I was a veteran already in '68 through the early '70s when this kind of s*** was going on, I absolutely hated them and they absolutely hated anyone in uniform.

[Truth29]

This is another of Obama’s people in action. They are unified in their hatred of America and, many of them, by their terrorist leanings.

[muir_redwoods]

Res Ipsa Loquitur

[muir_redwoods]

It wouldn’t surprise me if the democrats are trying actively to tie those who complain about the economy to this rubbish

[Anti-Bubba182]

They are. I see them taking that talking point on many news shows. There is a lot more chance these demonstrations will yield more serious fallout than the Tea Party ones. They are a less orderly and law abiding crowd.

Let people watching decide who they would rather have as a neighbor or coworker a Tea Party demonstrator or a Flea Party demonstrator.

[Cutterjohnmhb]

Maybe the next speakers they can invite will be Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Abbas.

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[lentulusgracchus]

Do you remember Obama turning tail and fleeing "Restoring Honor"?

No, when did that happen? What were the circumstances? What was "Restoring Honor"? Is that a photo of him "fleeing"? -- no aides, no guards, no nuthin', just hoofin' it away from the annoying people/thing? It looks .... stark. Iconic of his Presidency some day, perhaps.

I missed one -- link?

[Yosemitest]

You don't know about the "Restoring Honor" Rally?



Here's the CSPAN video and transcript, if you want to watch it, and it IS worth your time.

"Is that a photo of him "fleeing"?

Duh, YES!
Look over the helicopter, in the distance. See the crowd in the distance.
Obama's on the White House lawn, and the guards are in the distance.
The second photo is from the crowd at the "Restoring Honor" Rally.


Here's the LIVE THREAD: Restoring Honor Rally with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin 8/28/10 with 1,430 comments.