[a fool in paradise]

According to one plan released by the FBI, the group was to kill a law enforcement officer, then during the funeral precession, hit again with IEDs to kill more LEOs.

The media blacked out all national reporting on the bomb plots at the 2008 RNC convention.

Social activist, organizer ... and FBI informant:(RNC CONVENTION ALMOST FIREBOMBED!!) (Statesman.com Jan 3, 2009 By David Hanners)

In a conversation recorded by the FBI, McKay told Darby he planned to use the explosives on law-enforcement cars parked in a lot near the convention site, officials said.

“What if there’s a cop sleeping in the car?” Darby asked McKay, according to an affidavit by Christopher Langert, a special agent in the FBI’s Minneapolis office. “He’ll wake up,” McKay allegedly replied. McKay also told Darby, “It’s worth it if an officer gets burned or maimed,” the affidavit said...

[hocndoc]

McKay and Darby weren’t arrested until after they had actually bought the materials for the Molotov cocktails, had made them and were ready to carry out their bombing.

I am one of those who wonders what changed in the Michigan case.