Five Self Professed Anarchists Plotted to Blow Up Cleveland Bridge

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-120501cleveland-bridge-bomb-plot,0,4697057.story I really wish that I could just ignore this story, since as a philosophical anarchist myself I find it to be personally embarrassing. However, being that it's a major news story, plus the fact that I happen to live in the surrounding region in Ohio, I feel obligated to comment. Let me begin by saying that if there had existed a revolutionary situation, which clearly there was not, I would have found it to be a valid strategic tactic of guerilla warfare. Most, notably, during the U.S. Civil War, soldiers would blow up railroad lines, and cut telegraph lines, in order to disrupt both transportation, and communication. However, the Occupy Wallstreet Movement is commited to using peaceful methods in furthering a just, and equitable, society. I feel that we should all go along with this approach. There is not widespread popular support for a violent revolution, and I also do not feel that we've reached a critical situation yet. Now if perverbially speaking, there were a repressive regime which violently suppressed the non-violent actions of dissident activists, thereby making a violent solution necessary http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24966.html , I would regard it as being right to revolt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution But I do not believe that such an aggressive "propoganda of the deed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propoganda_of_the_deed inspires the people to rise up against the powers that be. If anything I feel that it acts to discredit anarchism in people's minds, and casts suspicion upon other anarchists by extension. Because the public will tend to hold us all as being guilty by association. Lastly, I find that another lesson which can be learned from this is that if people try to promote insurrectionary violence, we should have nothing to do with them. Not only might we be possibly be charged as accomplices, in providing some sort of support to terrorism, but also it would be likely that the persons in question would turn out to be agents provacteurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur But lest anyone become disenchanted with the anarchist movement, know that all causes have potential fanatics. This however does not make the ideas itself extreme. For example, in regards to abolitionism, John Brown was a fanatical militant. But most people would consider his cause to have been worthwhile, even if they feel that his methods were not praiseworthy. P.S. If social revolution were to finally come, it will not be broadcasted. Seriously, if anarchists, and/or other revolutionary socialists were to try to depose the established government at the time, I would then put my blog on a hiatus, for an indefinate amount of time. I mean it would still be kept up, but just not updated. And also, whether or not i were to decide to join in the rebellion, I would still go underground, as I expect I would be a person of interest to the powers that be. That's just a sensible given.