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leveymg

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1. Park Service is part of the Interior Dept. If there's a crackdown, it's the White House, not Issa
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 09:24 AM
Jan 2012

who gives that dispersal and arrest order.

If the U.S. Park Police do forcibly evict OWS from DC, we will have become just another Third World Police State in the eyes of the world.

P.S. - It's incidents of petty brutality and unlawful arrest of political protestors, like this one, that creates that image. It's the kind of mass arrest scene in Oakland, below, that solidifies it.

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