OMG!… Occupy Fort Collins Protester Arrested in Connection with $10 Million Arson Fire (Video)

This is what lawlessness looks like…
An Occupy Fort Collings protester was arrested today in connection with a $10 million arson fire.

Now their torching residential developments!
The Denver Channel reported:

Police have arrested an Occupy Fort Collins protester in connection with a $10 million arson fire that damaged dozens of condominiums and businesses in Fort Collins.

Benjamin David Gilmore, 29, was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of arson, burglary and criminal mischief.

On Oct. 24, a fire started at 3:30 a.m. in a four-story apartment complex under construction. The fire spread to the occupied Penny Flats condominium and retail building next door.

The fire at Penny Flats caused heavy fire damage to the fourth floor and roof, and heavy smoke and water damage to the first, second and third floors, according to Poudre Fire Authority spokesman Patrick Love.

Damage was estimated at $10 million.

Benjamin David Gilmore, 2005, playing chess at The Alley Cat. Coloradoan library (Coloradoan)

Verum Serum has more on the violent Occupy Fort Collins arsonist.

#1 November 5, 2011 at 5:22 pm
JewishOdysseus commented:

AtlasShrugs reports this gentleman is a Ron Paul supporter.

Big surprise.
#2 November 5, 2011 at 5:24 pm
kansas commented:

Now their torching residential developments!
Their, there, or they’re? I’m going with they’re as in they are. Pet peeve.
#3 November 5, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Surprise! commented:

He’s a Nut job Ron Paul supporter:
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-fort-collins-arsonist-ron.html

She said Benjamin Gilmore, who was part of the movement “since Day One,” is a Ron Paul supporter.
#4 November 5, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Jack commented:

Progressive version of the Tea Party!
#5 November 5, 2011 at 5:46 pm
donh commented:

$10 says Ron Gilmore’s dad is a unionized construction worker and the apartment complex under construction is a NON Union construction crew. 3:00 AM arson fires should be treated as attempted murder. People are asleep in neighboring buildings at such hours and might not wake up in time to evacuate.
#6 November 5, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Claudia commented:

This is actually really good for the US. All the criminals are in one place for the police to check open warrants and get them off the streets.
#7 November 5, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

I don’t get what the big deal is here?

This is NOTHING compared to the RAPE, MURDER, THEFT, VANDALISM, FALSE IMPRISONMENT and ARSON committed by the Tea Party Activists!

After all, according to Obama, both movements are the same…

MSM SPIN:

OWS: “Mostly peaceful protests…”
Tea Party: “Racists mobs that will begin committing violence any minute now…”
#8 November 5, 2011 at 6:37 pm
workingclass artist commented:

”
“There’s tons of drama,” she said, adding activists present at the site since Oct. 10 have worked to keep it positive. “Anyone we got negative vibes off of was asked to leave.”

She said Benjamin Gilmore, who was part of the movement “since Day One,” is a Ron Paul supporter. There has been friction between Paul supporters and other Occupy activists, whose views are “a little bit more extreme,” she said.

Eventually, the Paul supporters moved their demonstration to Mulberry Street and College Avenue. But Crisafi said Benjamin Gilmore stayed at Maple and College…”

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-fort-collins-arsonist-ron.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm
#9 November 5, 2011 at 6:47 pm
squeaky commented:

[The fire spread to the occupied Penny Flats condominium and retail building next door..] the law of unintended consequences – he’s lucky no one died. sorry doesn’t cut it. meanwhile i would assume some are out of work. we had a fire bug here who set a few fires until the last one killed two people.
#10 November 5, 2011 at 6:55 pm
R. Foy commented:

Ron Paulers should diffidently stay AWAY from these protests IF they want to KEEP ANY legitimacy!
#11 November 5, 2011 at 7:22 pm
shane commented:

OT

Might learn something from Newt, if interestwd. Expect a lot of kisy, kissy though……

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#12 November 5, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Babsy commented:

George Bush made him do it! Bush and Cheney used to sit in the White House basement on Saturday nights playing with a Vulcan Mind Meld machine they got from Area 51.They sent out so many bad vibes that it will take fourteen Dem Presidents (cuz they care so much for others!) to erase all the karma the neocons wrought. I’m practicing to become a 99% er! Because they really care! BAWHAHAHAHAHA!!!
#13 November 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Meg commented:

Don’t even mention the tea party in the same breath with these thugs.
#14 November 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Taxpayer commented:

What an incredibly thoughtless pig. I don’t give a damn about his intent–the results are all that matter.
#15 November 5, 2011 at 7:41 pm
jimbo commented:

It’s all very simple really …

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk157/AccioRecto/OCCUPY.jpg
#16 November 5, 2011 at 7:43 pm
donh commented:

Peter H Gilmore is the High Priest of the Church of Satan…..I have stated in earlier posts the international Church of Satan is the INVISIBLE entity behind this Global anarchy. The pagan calendars calling for the End of the World in 2012 has all the cult leaders believing their day is dawning. Time to push the old order out and all hail Satan. Benjamin may be related to Peter or spirit possessed by him….. http://www.churchofsatan.com/home.html
#17 November 5, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

Yet more evidence of the violent nature of the “Occupy” crowd.

Keep your heads up and your shootin iron handy.

We are going to need it.

powder is dry
#18 November 5, 2011 at 8:53 pm
ant commented:

Jackasses. I guess they’re believers in the “broken window” economic theory. Why else would people crying about jobs and the economy work to, seemingly, ruin jobs and the economy? Oh, but, then again, Weasle Zippers had a video of undercover media asking Occupiers if they wanted to apply for jobs and they mostly refused, they have no problem with capitalism when it comes to selling drugs or Chinese-made Guy Fawkes masks though.
#19 November 5, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Patty commented:

http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+dies+Occupy+Vancouver+site/5664471/story.html

Woman dies at Occupy Vancouver site
#20 November 5, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Babsy commented:

19: Jackeasses is too kind. They are the filthiest of scum. Awaiting the day(s) of reconciliation.
#21 November 5, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Patty commented:

Corporate Collaborators
Standing with “the 99%” means supporting the destruction of civilized society.

Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to “preserve disorder.” I believe that was one of Hizzoner’s famous malapropisms. Forty-three years later Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland city council have made “preserving disorder” the official municipal policy. On Wednesday, the “Occupy Oakland” occupiers rampaged through the city, shutting down the nation’s fifth-busiest port, forcing stores to close, terrorizing those residents foolish enough to commit the reactionary crime of “shopping,” destroying ATMs, spraying the Christ the Light Cathedral with the insightful observation “F**k,” etc. And how did the Oakland city council react? The following day they considered a resolution to express their support for “Occupy Oakland” and to call on the city administration to “collaborate with protesters.”

That’s “collaborate” in the Nazi-occupied-France sense: The city’s feckless political class are collaborating with anarchists against the taxpayers who maintain them in their sinecures. They’re not the only ones. When the rumor spread that the Whole Foods store, of all unlikely corporate villains, had threatened to fire employees who participated in the protest, the regional president, David Lannon, took to Facebook: “We totally support our Team Members participating in the General Strike today — rumors are false!” But, despite his “total support,” they trashed his store anyway, breaking windows and spraypainting walls. As the Oakland Tribune reported:

A man who witnessed the Whole Foods attack, but asked not to be identified, said he was in the store buying an organic orange when the crowd arrived.

There’s an epitaph for the republic if ever I heard one.

The experience was surreal, the man said. “They were wearing masks. There was this whole mess of people, and no police here. That was weird.”

No, it wasn’t. It was municipal policy. In fairness to the miserable David Lannon, Whole Foods was in damage-control mode. Men’s Wearhouse in Oakland had no such excuse. In solidarity with the masses, they printed up a huge poster declaring “We stand with the 99%” and announcing they’d be closed that day. In return, they got their windows smashed.

I’m a proud member of the 1 percent, and I’d have been tempted to smash ’em myself. A few weeks back, finding myself suddenly without luggage, I shopped at a Men’s Wearhouse, faute de mieux, in Burlington, Vt. Never again. I’m not interested in patronizing craven corporations so decadent and self-indulgent that as a matter of corporate policy they support the destruction of civilized society. Did George Zimmer, founder of Men’s Wearhouse and backer of Howard Dean, marijuana decriminalization, and many other fashionable causes, ever glance at the photos of the OWS occupiers and ponder how many of “the 99%” were ever likely to be in need of his two-for-one deal on suits and neckties? And did he think even these dummies were dumb enough to fall for such a feebly corporatist attempt at appeasing the mob?

I don’t “stand with the 99%,” and certainly not downwind of them. But I’m all for their “occupation” continuing on its merry way. It usefully clarifies the stakes. At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life — just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth. What’s happening in Oakland is a logical exercise in class solidarity: The government class enthusiastically backing the breakdown of civil order is making common cause with the leisured varsity class, the thuggish union class, and the criminal class in order to stick it to what’s left of the beleaguered productive class. It’s a grand alliance of all those societal interests that wish to enjoy in perpetuity a lifestyle they are not willing to earn. Only the criminal class is reasonably upfront about this. The rest — the lifetime legislators, the unions defending lavish and unsustainable benefits, the “scholars” whiling away a somnolent half decade at Complacency U — are obliged to dress it up a little with some hooey about “social justice” and whatnot.
#22 November 5, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Patty commented:

Corporate Collaborators
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/282280
Read more just a part very lengthy as you can see.
#23 November 5, 2011 at 9:47 pm
JPeden commented:

#6 Claudia commented:

This is actually really good for the US. All the criminals are in one place for the police to check open warrants and get them off the streets.

Yes! “What could possibly go wrong?” Plus, they’re rendered invisible as needed – but always to themselves. Oops, it looks like they don’t even have enough gray matter to have selves!
#24 November 5, 2011 at 10:02 pm
ExExZonie commented:

MAJOR DOWN TWINKLES!!

Wait, doesn’t that solve all problems? Doesn’t it??
#30 November 9, 2011 at 3:46 pm
LindaG commented:

Yep, a self made individual who made a viable business out of bee keeping and who likes to play chess is the first person I would suspect as an arsonist.

I’ve got a better idea, why don’t you do some research before you post something so ridiculous. You can start by interviewing people who know him, which is quite a few since he is a responsible community member who has been giving workshops on bee keeping since he was a little boy.

Then you could move on to the fact that the city has been trying to pin something on him for years since he barters and accepts alternative currencies. You could close with a mention that the homeless shelter only a couple of blocks away probably turned away many people since it was the first snow fall of the season and that the unoccupied building was the closest cover that some one would find that night.

But I wouldn’t want you to have to do any real reporting since this is only blog trash. It’s clear your readers enjoyed this misinformed commentary.
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