They Call Them "Stings"

When actually, they're setups.

A teenager from the suburbs of the US city of Chicago has been arraigned on terrorism charges in connection with an FBI sting operation that has raised new questions about whether US investigators are engaging in entrapment.

  alJazeera

In fact, the news of this terror plot being foiled by the FBI came right after the Boston bombing. I can only assume they were trying to deflect attention from the fact that it became quickly known the FBI had the Tsarnaevs on its radar for some time. And again, as I said at the time of the Boston bombing, it's not unreasonable to be suspicious that the Tsarnaevs may have been another of the FBI’s operations, and it went south. If not, they are surely playing with fire, and one day sooner or later one of these operations WILL get out of their control.

Beyond that glaring problem with entrapment operations, this particular case is, I think, highly problematic on another count. They arrested the kid for trying to join (through an FBI fake AQ website) an al Qa’ida group that is fighting in Syria.

He was arrested at O'Hare International Airport on Friday as he prepared to start the first leg of a trip that authorities allege he hoped would hook him up with fighters in Syria.

Not only would it NOT have done so; he was hoping to go fight in a civil war in Syria, which really has nothing at all to do with the US.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Violent "Protesters" in Seattle

Protesters clad in black outfits and carrying poles smashed windows and clashed with police during a May Day demonstration in downtown Seattle, according to The Seattle Times.

The Occupy Wall Street movement planned May Day rallies in cities around the United States to show solidarity with workers across the globe and call for corporate accountability.

A small group of so-called black bloc protesters shattered the windows of numerous cars, a NikeTown store, an American Apparel store, a Wells Fargo bank and a federal courthouse.

Other buildings were vandalized with spray paint. A Canadian tourist said his car’s windows had been smashed and protesters allegedly told him to “go back to Canada.”

Seattle police Capt. Joe Kessler said there had been some arrests and that most protesters had been peaceful.

  Raw Story

Yes, because these “black bloc protesters” are not protesters at all, but rather protest infiltrators and agents provacateurs. This is not the first time Seattle protests have been infiltrated thusly. Or elsewhere. And the Seattle mayor even warned of this possibility several days ago.  So let's not be reporting them as "protesters".

May Day protests elsewhere in the states.