Although it is too early to speculate on the motives behind the explosion outside a Manhattan Starbucks, that has not deterred right-wing bloggers whose hatred of Islam is a key component of their groupthink. Although it was one of their own who was tried and executed for the bombings in Oklahoma City, they blamed Muslims first.
While others are prepared to "round up the usual suspects", any through investigation would not dismiss the possibility that it was an inside job. Businesses large and small commit insurance fraud that involves destroying their own property, especially through the use of arson. Corporations in the US also have a long history of using unscrupulous tactics and outright violence to prevent workers from organizing. If management was somehow connected to this incident, it would not be the first time that the elites have used explosives to erode popular support for workers' struggles.
Pinkerton Detective Agency spy, James McParlan, was famous for these kinds of "false-flag" operations. McParlan framed the immigrant miners known as the "Molly Maguires" for murder and other violent acts in Pennsylvania coal country and coerced a miner who used dynamite to assasinate a former Idaho governor responsible for atrocities in an usucessful effort to frame the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners for the bombing. The Pinkerton Agency, infamous locally for its role in the Homestead Massacre, frequently employed these kinds of tactics to erode popular support for organizing efforts and to kill or imprison workers, especially their leaders.
During the famed "Bread and Roses", textile strike of 1912, in Lawrence, Massachusets there was another attempt to discredit the mostly female workers, by planting dynamite in several locations around Lawrence. The press was quick to blame the strikers, but a local undertaker who had recieved a substantial cash payment he could not explain, from the owner of the textile mill, was arrested and fined $500 for his efforts to discredit the strikers. Union organizers were also blamed for the death of a striker who was shot and killed by the police, but later acquitted.
Starbucks, despite their best attempts at marketing and public relations, is currently suffering from image problems and a slumping economy. The company's words and actions during five years of an organzing campaign by the IWW Starbucks Workers' Union contradict the socially conscious, responsible image they wish to present to the people who consume their (overpriced, overroasted) products. None of this means that Starbucks would resort to explosives to discredit workers who are trying to organize themselves, but if they did, they would not be the first.
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