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In reply to the discussion: Whoop, There It Is... 'Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown' - CounterPunch [View all]WillyT
(72,631 posts)46. Oh Damn... You're Right... She Was On The Phone With PERF... Which Coordinates With DHS...
PERF - Police Executive Research Forum
Many of us have been wondering why the raids on Occupy camps across the country have had such a coordinated feel. If only the official response to real social ills could have been as timely and widespread as the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators expressing their freedom of speech, assembly, and the press covering their protest. An article at Examiner.com was understandably derided as being under-sourced for a charge as serious as a national DHS crackdown on non-violent protests. However, we have now received confirmation via Amy Goodman's interview on the 11/17 episode of Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/17/paramilitary_policing_of_occupy_wall_street with PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler that this private NGO coordinated high-level conference calls amongst 40 police chiefs, distinct from the mayoral "therapy session" referred to by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, in order to broadcast advice and documentation about cracking down on the Occupy social movement.
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/19/1038054/-Confirmed-Police-Executive-Research-Forum-PERF-coordinating-Occupy-raids
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Whoop, There It Is... 'Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown' - CounterPunch [View all]
WillyT
Mar 2012
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Logic FAIL. They allege a national crackdown coordinated by the DHS, but then when
geek tragedy
Mar 2012
#18
For The Record... I Didn't Say The Obama Administration Was Coordinating This... You Did...
WillyT
Mar 2012
#28
Maybe The Fact That The Documents Had Many Redactions, And That They Were Steered Away From...
WillyT
Mar 2012
#30
Have you ever seen a FOIA production? They always have redactions--names, phone numbers, etc.
geek tragedy
Mar 2012
#33
Well Hallelujah !!! - So Which One Holds The Secrets Of A "Nationwide Conspiracy" ???
WillyT
Mar 2012
#35
Oh Damn... You're Right... She Was On The Phone With PERF... Which Coordinates With DHS...
WillyT
Mar 2012
#46
Twitter: public broadcast on the web. Email: private, need a search warrant.
geek tragedy
Mar 2012
#27
Just like Twitter. Completely not private. Especially if you set the settings
geek tragedy
Mar 2012
#39
There is no separation of church and state when the object of worship is Mammon.
Octafish
Mar 2012
#3
The Freepers called, they want their Black Helicopters paranoid fantasy back. nt
geek tragedy
Mar 2012
#21