"Battlefield Occupy" -(and the weapons used against the people)

[Huey P. Long]

Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 9:02 am
Battlefield Occupy
By Allison Kilkenny

Over the course of the past three months, Occupy camps nationwide have been the scenes of sometimes brutal crackdowns by police on protesters, who have tried to exercise their First Amendment rights to gather and express themselves.

The raids have also permitted officers to experiment with their favorite toys of suppression. The use of pepper spray, rubber bullets, tasers, flash bang grenades, tanks (see: Occupy Tampa,) tear gas, and batons are familiar sights to most Occupiers by now.

NYPD used a Long-Range Acoustic Device, commonly known as a sound cannon, primarily as a "communication device" even though the LRAD can easily damage hearing. The LRAD was also used during a raid at Occupy LA.

For more than 90 days, some protesters desperately clung to the world's most uneven battlefield in which police officers, armed with millions of dollars worth of weaponry -- sometimes purchased with funding from the big banks themselves -- repeatedly raided their camps.

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http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/12457/battlefield_occupy/

[Huey P. Long]

1. I thought it was a great article/rundown. Here is another on 'occucopter'-

Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching whom?
Tim Pool's citizen drone that keeps tabs on the police may lift protesters' spirits, but it could lead to a surveillance nightmare
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 December 2011 07.46 EST

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pool?CMP=twt_gu

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Please, please post this as an OP. :)

A pity we have to go to UK news to learn about New York, though.

[Huey P. Long]

6. By your request, I just put it in LBN. Salute. -eom

[Remember Me]

2. This is a must read article for information on the Police State

Please read the whole thing.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Great. They can turn people into vegetables but it's NON-LETHAL.

"Quality of living"...

and

"These shields can be networked together to form one big, giant acoustical horn"

So they CAN be phase-locked. I was hoping they hadn't figured that out.

YOU KNOW, IF WE USED ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY LIKE ANY OF THESE THINGS ON POLICE

THEY'D LOCK US UP FOR LIFE OR KILL US ON THE SPOT.

[msongs]

5. Bush 3 policies march on unabated from top to bottom nt