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Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns
Lawrence_Bird writes "The Feds helped break up the Occupy protests by providing advice and assistance from the FBI and DHS. From the article: 'Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said on Monday that her city and others across the country coordinated their crackdowns of Occupy Wall Street camps. Rick Ellis, a Minneapolis-based journalist for Examiner.com, reports that these cities also had the help of the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." In related conspiracy news, apcullen wrote in with a story by Time Magazine guest columnist Naomi Wolf who claims: "Instead of imminent safety issues, the timing of the crackdown was far more likely to do with the fact that the Occupy movement was planning something media-savvy at last: a 'carnival' on Wall Street on Thursday in which protesters would telegenically tell their individual stories of hardship, job loss and disenfranchisement. It is that event that posed a 'safety risk' — to the efforts of Wall Street and the Bloomberg administration to manage the narrative."
3. The Occupy folks themselves kinda wanted to get shut down for the winter and aren't likely to put up more than token resistence. Expect a resurgence in the spring.
I think you give way too much credit to a stoner's ability to focus for a prolonged period of time.
LOL you are kidding? I hope you are kidding.
The fact they got new publicists doesn't change their message. 'Capitalism is messed up, or something. We need world socialism and free stuff, or something. Fight the power! The rich are getting richer faster then the poor are getting richer! We're going to change the world with this hippy jam fest.'
Same tired old shit. I blame you for failing to look deeper.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
And also, when you punch someone, don't be surprised when they start shooting or raping other people, or molesting underage runaways. Every action has its reaction, right?
But I guess when you've decided that it's all the police's fault, no actual evidence of safety and security risks will sway you.
chocolate rain? I'll show you chocolate rain. equally distribute the wealth among the entire population (thus creating an enormous consumer spending, construction, financial services and banking boom, basically solving the entire economic crisis) and that's what would be falling from the tops of the Wall Street towers -- they wouldn't even have to be force-fed my jalapeños.. (I'd probably do that anyway, just to watch their faces turn into red balloons..)