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Title: Homeland Security Coordinated 18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest
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Washington's Blog
URL Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011 ... ackdown-on-occupy-protest.html
Published: Nov 16, 2011
Author: WashingtonsBlog
Post Date: 2011-11-16 11:53:20 by Hondo68
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Keywords: Patriot Act & Homeland Securit
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According to Oakland Mayor Jean said that 18 cities coordinated police crack downs on Occupy protests. Wonkette reports that Homeland Security likely organized the crack downs: Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it’s also now confirmed that it’s now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today. (Oh, and tonight, too: Seattle is being busted up by the riot cops right now, so be careful out there.) Rick Ellis of the Minneapolis edition of Examiner.com has this, based on a “background conversation” he had with a Justice Department official on Monday night: Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night’s move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies. [...] According to this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local police agencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of tent cities, focusing on zoning laws and existing curfew rules. Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a massive show of police force, including large numbers in riot gear. In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentation suggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when the press was the least likely to be present. *** (And for those who are understandably doubtful about Examiner.com as a news source, here’s an AP story from a couple hours ago that verifies everything except the specific mention of DHS coordination.) Yves Smith notes: The 18 police action was a national, coordinated effort. This is a more serious development that one might imagine. Reader Richard Kline has pointed out that one of the de facto protections of American freedoms is that policing is local, accountable to elected officials at a level of government where voters matter. National coordination vitiates the notion that policing is responsive to and accountable to the governed. Poster Comment: Obama, DHS sec Napalatano, and AG Eric Holder are enforcing camping regulations and curfews nationwide. They'll be coming by to tuck you into bed at 10 PM.
National Coordination Goes Against Protection of Local Accountability
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Anarchy + democracy = neocoms !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
Of course they did. Why would anybody be shocked or outraged over this? After all,that is the PURPOSE of the Office of Reich Security.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Boris,you do know it was Dear Leader Boy Jorge Bush that created the Office of Reich Security,right? Obama is nothing more than a nickel version of a Bush.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
;} Fighting to keep their chains.... "This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic. The "us" in this movement is far broader than those who are able to participate in physical occupations. The movement is everyone who sends supplies, everyone who talks to their friends and families about the underlying issues, everyone who takes some form of action to get involved in this civic process. This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all. Such a movement cannot be evicted." 8D
How does someone lose $5 Billion and then get the US Treasury to give $1billion in bonus? Where's my Bailout? ;}
Wooden nickel sneaky ! Anarchy (( marxism - evolution )) + democracy = neocoms ! Retrogrades - luddites - zombies - brain dead libertarians !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Homeland Security Coordinated 18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest
#3. To: BorisY (#1)
Anarchy + democracy = neocoms !
#4. To: sneakypete (#3)
Obama is nothing more than a nickel version of a Bush.
#5. To: All (#4)
#6. To: sneakypete (#3)
nickel version
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