Is Occupy Wall Street a Domestic Terrorist Threat?

Ben Johnson,The White House Watch

If the most recent news reports are to be believed,all the Occupy Wall Street protesters have to fear is each other. A 19-year-old demonstrator says her tent-mate,“Leland,”raped her last weekend in Cleveland’s Public Square. Seattle police arrested a man who took part in that city’s occupation after he allegedly exposed himself to children five times. At the protest’s center of operations in New York City’s Zuccotti Park,some protesters have tried to finance their way into the top 1 percent by ripping off their fellow rioters. “Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said 18-year-old Nan Terrie. The take includes Macintosh computers,phones,cameras,even $2,500 in cash donations. Cities and localities are alreadypaying a heavy price to protect or clean up after the looney Left’s wretched refuse. But could these large scale demonstrations become the scene of violence and tragedy? It may be easier than you think.

Taking note of the crowds’organizers,Floyd and Mary Beth Brown say people should prepare for violence from the Occupiers themselves. Adding additional reason for concern,Clinton pollster Doug Schoen wrote in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal,that “nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.”Like the mobs some of these same groups whipped up by in Seattle in 1999,violence could spring forth from the ranks of the affluent aggrieved themselves.

Violence could as easily be brought up from without. While the city’s police dutifully attend to the antics of spoiled malcontents,terrorists could strike at a location on the other side of town left underprotected.

But violence could hit closer to the OWS protesters yet. Suppose you were an innovativejihadist looking for new ways to strike fear into the heart of the Great Satan. Where would you strike? Terrorism,by definition,means targeting the civilian population to make a political statement. Where could you be assured that,wherever you are in the country,you would be able to locate a large,earnest,welcoming crowd of infidels?

If a suicide bomber wished to infiltrate an Occupy Wall Street protest….

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