The anti-war movement exposed itself as anything but a peace movement early this morning as one of their apparent sympathizers bombed the historic recruiting station in Manhattan’s Times Square:
NEW YORK — Authorities in New York City are looking for the culprit who set off a rudimentary explosive device in Times Square early Thursday, with one witness describing a hooded man on a bicycle wearing a backpack and acting suspiciously just before the blast at a military recruiting center.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said an ammunition box was found at the scene.
“This was not a particularly sophisticated device,” he said during a news conference in Times Square Thursday.
Kelly said police were talking to a witness who was in the area shortly before the 3:45 a.m. explosion. The witness described a male bicyclist wearing a hood, dark clothing and a backpack and acting strangely — but didn’t see the man’s face.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said no one has come forward to report seeing a suspect plant a bomb, and no one so far has spoken of witnessing the device going off. He said authorities were in the process of reviewing all the security camera footage.
The blast occurred when an explosive device detonated, causing minor damage to the recruiting station in Times Square — an area that is heavily populated with New York City tourists. Hotel guests were shaken by the force in their rooms high above the scene. No one was injured, but the station’s glass entryway was shattered.
The Homeland Security department said there was no sign of an “imminent threat” to the United States in the blast that tore through an empty military recruiting station in Times Square, according to Reuters.
DHS knows there’s no “imminent threat” because they know, in general, who was responsible. The armchair revolutionaries of New York’s leisure class have learned the lesson that radical environmentalist have learned from tepid western reactions to Islamic imperialism and are acting accordingly.
Terrorism works. The radical left knows it is through fear and intimidation that they can achieve the “change” they want for America, the radical reshaping our country into a communist state.
The Times Square recruitment center has been the scene of not just protests by the anti-War left but counter protests by the United American Committee and Gathering of Eagles. As such anti-war groups like Code Pink and the Grannies Peace Brigade have begun to see that particular recruitment station as symbolic. With their protests having negligible effects on recruitment and American attitudes, much less American sympathies for the Marxist groups that pull the strings of the anti-war movement, these anti-American revolutionaries have nothing to lose by wallowing in the violence against us their ideology encourages.
This is the reality of what groups like World Can’t Wait have recruited our children for, this is the unholy purpose.These groups used opposition to the war as a smokescreen while recruiting an army of young thugs willing to bomb, maim or kill. Yesterday I posted video that shows an “anti-war” activists commanding dozens of young people to physically attack two young men and that crowd did. Today they have planted a bomb.
What will they do tomorrow?
Hot Air has more, including the inevitable DailyKos conspiracy theory blaming the right.
Gateway Pundit has a good overview including a report that two or three people were reported as running from the scene, which conflicts with current reports about a lone bomber.
The N.Y. Chapter of Gathering of Eagles weighs in:
From the photographs and video it is obvious that this was not the work of kids playing with firecrackers. The safety glass windows are shattered. The steel door is sprung from its hinges. The large video screen above the entrance is damaged. Witnesses on the 21st floor report feeling the building shake at the Marriott Hotel two blocks away.
The left has been increasing the violence in the past year and almost none of it gets reported in the mainstream press. Our GOE members have been threatened and assaulted for daring to stand up for our troops and nation in opposition to their demonstrations. They have assaulted our servicemen by barricading recruiting stations and preventing access in violation of federal law.
Last July 4th a serviceman was shot in the heart outside his off-base house near McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
The local police shrug off the incidents of their violence unless we press them to do something, and the media ignore or minimize their outrageous behavior.
Now it comes to this. If you ignore the small outrages the outrages will grow. In the 1970s the anarchists were responsible for several deaths in New York. Justice was finally served when their bomb making factory in Greenwich Village exploded.
Eagles Up! It’s time we rallied for America.
Update: Hot Air has the released surveillance video. Looks like there was just one bike riding terrorist.
Update: As many as eight Democrats received a bizarre communique from a group claiming responsibility. As expected it was an anti-war group.