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Title: From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security
Source: Mondoweiss
URL Source: http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/from- ... merican-domestic-decurity.html
Published: Dec 2, 2011
Author: Max Blumenthal
Post Date: 2011-12-12 09:12:32 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 2147
Comments: 7

In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT team exposition organized to promote “mutual response,” collaboration and competition between heavily militarized police strike forces representing law enforcement departments across the United States and foreign nations.

At the time, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department was preparing for an imminent confrontation with the nascent “Occupy” movement that had set up camp in downtown Oakland, and would demonstrate the brunt of its repressive capacity against the demonstrators a month later when it attacked the encampment with teargas and rubber bullet rounds, leaving an Iraq war veteran in critical condition and dozens injured. According to Police Magazine, a law enforcement trade publication, “Law enforcement agencies responding to…Occupy protesters in northern California credit Urban Shield for their effective teamwork.”

Training alongside the American police departments at Urban Shield was the Yamam, an Israeli Border Police unit that claims to specialize in “counter-terror” operations but is better known for its extra-judicial assassinations of Palestinian militant leaders and long record of repression and abuses in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Urban Shield also featured a unit from the military of Bahrain, which had just crushed a largely non-violent democratic uprising by opening fire on protest camps and arresting wounded demonstrators when they attempted to enter hospitals.

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“Occupy” meets the Occupation

When a riot squad from the New York Police Department destroyed and evicted the “Occupy Wall Street” protest encampment at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, department leadership drew on the anti-terror tactics they had refined since the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the NYPD deployed “counterterrorism measures” to mobilize large numbers of cops for the lightning raid on Zuccotti. The use of anti-terror techniques to suppress a civilian protest complemented harsh police measures demonstrated across the country against the nationwide “Occupy” movement, from firing tear gas canisters and rubber bullets into unarmed crowds to blasting demonstrators with the LRAD sound cannon.

Given the amount of training the NYPD and so many other police forces have received from Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus, and the profuse levels of gratitude American police chiefs have expressed to their Israeli mentors, it is worth asking how much Israeli instruction has influenced the way the police have attempted to suppress the Occupy movement, and how much they will inform police repression of future examples of street protest. What can be said for certain is that the Israelification of American law enforcement has intensified police fear and hostility towards the civilian population, blurring the lines between protesters, criminals, and terrorists. As Dichter said, they are all just “crimiterrorists.”

“After 9/11 we had to react very quickly,” Greenberg remarked, “but now we’re in 2011 and we’re not talking about people who want to fly planes into buildings. We’re talking about young American citizens who feel that their birthright has been sold. If we’re using Israeli style tactics on them and this stuff bleeds into the way we do business at large, were in big trouble.”

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#1. To: Not Badeye, A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, mininggold, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0)

We’re talking about young American citizens who feel that their birthright has been sold. If we’re using Israeli style tactics on them and this stuff bleeds into the way we do business at large, were in big trouble.”

Reader comment:

The change we are asking for that shrinks the public sector means the following:

(1) The Workers and the Middle Class must accept lower pay in line with the difference with that from the emerging economies and increasingly frontier economies until there is a meeting of the two (2) In the meantime they should understand that domestic US and European capital will keep its returns in line with global counterparts and will therefore not share in this decline because that is the just and fair thing

Put that way it is clear why this will not happen without a titanic battle and whatever happens the society we see after will bear no resemblance to the current one.

While I see the brutal logic at play here to argue that those who resist the potential collapse of their standards of living in this manner are “crazy” are themselves either delusional or just selfish beyond words or a combination of both.

As an owner of capital I fight my corner but not using quasi-moral arguments.

This is the reason countries outside Europe and US have traditionally been unstable and non-democratic. Very difficult for anyone to agree to this usually done by force until a time when there is enough wealth to gain cohesion.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-12-12   9:18:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)

The site software placed this article in "United States News".

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-12-12   9:21:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: lucysmom (#2)

we're all Palestinians now...;}

Run on banks as I type.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-12-12   10:09:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lucysmom (#2)

The site software placed this article in "United States News".

The way the software works is the host puts in key words for each catetgory. So it will not always get it right. It is just a suggestion.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-12-12   10:27:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm (#3)

Run on banks as I type.

Yep.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-12-12   10:55:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: lucysmom (#5)

Run on banks as I type.

Yep.

Even as the Banksters are stealing everything they can get their hands on:

#19. To: nolu chan (#16)

I could not help but consider the concept of giving my assets to the banksters to ensure my fiscal safety.

And that is the problem.

No one IS considering that.

And so the Ponzi Banksters have been exposed and must steal.

Latest on MFG:

Who Gave Permission To A Bankrupt MF Global To Sell Italian Bonds To JPM At A 5% Discount To Market Value? By: Tyler Durden on: 14.12.2011

www.zerohedge.com/news/wh...m-5-discount-market-value

"History tells us involuntary acceptance of profligate credit expansion and unpayable debt leads to total catastrophe for the entire financial system." Troubled Eurozone economies need $6 trillion to avoid collapse. Whatever they get won't offset needing more help down the road.

mcgowanjm

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-12-14   9:07:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: All (#6)

Noting here that ZERO posts at LF have been devoted to Obama not prosecuting ONE gd Bankster.

Not one.

As Obama lying his ass off with 60 Minutes Sunday on why he had not....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-12-14   9:09:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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