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Good News: 'Occupy Boston' Holds Rally for Accused Terrorist
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2011 | Guy Benson

Posted on 10/10/2011 1:10:55 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 7countries; communism; democrats; dhimmicrats; iraq; islam; liberals; mallplots; mehanna; occupyboston; ows; owsisajoke; pakistan; shoppingmallplots; somalia; syria; tarekmehanna; wot; yemen
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1 posted on 10/10/2011 1:11:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

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


2 posted on 10/10/2011 1:16:23 PM PDT by Cutterjohnmhb
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To: Kaslin

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.


3 posted on 10/10/2011 1:18:04 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Kaslin

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.


4 posted on 10/10/2011 1:18:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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To: Kaslin

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


5 posted on 10/10/2011 1:21:45 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: Kaslin

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

That right there is scary...


6 posted on 10/10/2011 1:23:04 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: Kaslin

“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.


7 posted on 10/10/2011 1:24:46 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: 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."

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. . . .

8 posted on 10/10/2011 1:27:51 PM PDT by DeaconRed (Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968)
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To: Kaslin
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




Just to help identify Marine One



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


9 posted on 10/10/2011 1:28:13 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple: Fight or Die)
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To: Kaslin

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


10 posted on 10/10/2011 1:29:22 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kaslin

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.


11 posted on 10/10/2011 2:06:37 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: 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.

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.

12 posted on 10/10/2011 2:12:38 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: Kaslin
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.
13 posted on 10/10/2011 2:13:45 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

Res Ipsa Loquitur


14 posted on 10/10/2011 2:46:41 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

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


15 posted on 10/10/2011 2:49:24 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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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.

16 posted on 10/10/2011 2:59:04 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Kaslin

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


17 posted on 10/10/2011 3:01:10 PM PDT by Cutterjohnmhb
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To: Yosemitest
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?

19 posted on 10/11/2011 1:49:13 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
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.


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.


20 posted on 10/11/2011 2:33:32 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple: Fight or Die)
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