On April 28, members of American Front, a white-supremacist group labeled „a known terrorist organization“ in the affidavit justifying the arrest, took a break from training with machine guns for a race war in order to fashion weapons out of fake „Occupy“ signs which they planned to use to assault May Day protesters in Melbourne, Florida. No script, no choreography for maximal impact on sensation-hungry news broadcasts, no melodramatic press conference with a U.S. attorney and FBI Special Agent in Charge; (..)

the charges filed were state, not federal.