Anarchists have done damage before but have never plotted something on this scale. The OWS movement incubated the plot. I suspect the City Councilman decided that it would be better if these losers were caught rather than doing major damage to a city he represented while part of an organization he started. I suspect that means he alerted the FBI. Maybe there needs to Press about the movement having spawned some violent plots. Maybe other founders will reach the same conclusion about what is best for their city, state, or federal government

The "values" [laugh here] and people of the "Occupy" self-indulgence have proved in a dozen ways they can´t even run a camp, much less a society.

They are, in the end, small and disgusting, a highly-negative node of the takers-makers contention. Like gov´t, they fail to see that without the makers, they cannot possibly exists -- again, it´s parasites and host. Or perhaps, see, resent, and therefore fail to acknowledge that truth?

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else´s money."
~~ Thomas Sowell

"Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism."
~~ Thomas Sowell

"The problem isn´t that Johnny can´t read. The problem isn´t even that Johnny can´t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn´t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
~~ Thomas Sowell

Because they are full time rabblerousers!

Anarchy is taught in public schools starting at the K level. Do anything that feeeeels good.