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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Frank: Why Occupy failed and how it's more like the Tea Party than anyone wants to admit [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)including a "progressive" Jean Quan in Oakland. Two Veterans came close to death from police assaults, and the city told many easily refuted lies against Occupy, including hiding from the city a report that crime in Oakland had fallen 19% during the Occupy Oakland encampment. The police chief Jordan and Quan, who were well aware of this report, still repeatedly attacked Occupy Oakland with militarized riot police and chemical weapons forbidden by the Geneva Conventions (tear gas). Quan literally chose a path which would return Oakland to its former crime rate. She chose to raise crime by 19%. "Progressive".
Oakland officials caught in lies about attacking Occupy
http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/oakland-officials-caught-in-lies-about.html
I don't speak for the entire movement but I would imagine some members (7400+ arrested, many of them brutalized and bloodied by police, zero zero zero criminal banksters arrested) may have a sour taste in their mouths regarding "politics" and "politicians", and favor the power of the people, in participatory, horizontal democracy. "Democracy" of course meaning "the will of the people".