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In reply to the discussion: FBI started surveillance of Occupy before it occupied [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)54. The irony is that you fit the very outlook you posit for me.
I don't see you as 'hating' anything. That doesn't mean you aren't free to see me differently based on what I post.
But I don't see anything about my posts on OWS as indicating 'hate'. Merely a recognition that being without leadership and more focused goals (other than a repetitive "Wall Street! Be nicer!" is why they didn't have more of an impact than they did.
I was rooting for them at first. I still am. But right now I expect the same results this year as in the past two years: minimal at best.
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You can track them here. We had (have) our own surveillance state deniers who troll this board.
leveymg
Jun 2013
#29
Those you speak of are not happy that Meta is gone. They are trying to use
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#102
Hell, no. But when you have large groups of people gathering in public parks...
randome
Jun 2013
#17
Fuck the Tea Party, I'm sure they were monitored, too. But no one takes the time to find out.
randome
Jun 2013
#20
If no one on the Left wants to take the time to learn whether the TP was treated differently...
randome
Jun 2013
#27
Why is military intelligence, DHS, and the FBI "keeping an eye" on people camped out in parks?
leveymg
Jun 2013
#30
Really? Why did no one ask the armed Tea Baggers who attended Obama rallies to 'disperse'?
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#65
'Right to gather' is not the same as setting up tents and kitchens in other people's parks.
randome
Jun 2013
#69
So tents are more threatening than guns? And where is there a limit placed on how long
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#70
Again, many local residents did not want THEIR parks and THEIR cities occupied indefinitely.
randome
Jun 2013
#75
80% of NYers when polled, supported OWS in Zuccotti Park. Not that a few disgruntled
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#78
And we have the authoritarian response. The protestors deserved the treatment they got.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#91
I only asked because it seems to me that you choose the authoritarian side
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#99
I am 100% behind the goals of OWS -when the wind blows right and they protest coherently.
randome
Jun 2013
#101
It's either shouting or shooting. Not many quite ready to cross that bridge, as yet.
leveymg
Jun 2013
#106
What, you think I'm going to insist that LE did not do some despicable things? Not at all.
randome
Jun 2013
#21
Maybe the FBI will be starting surveillance early on the next Farm Aid charity concert too.
Zorra
Jun 2013
#24
OWS succeeded and is still succeeding. So that isn't part of the argument. No one here believes
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#74
Keep defending the Tea Party and attacking OWS. Your avoidance of the questions
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#87
No, only if it really is the Tea Party. See the fixed link in my previous comment.
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#89
No. If you want to go to origins, and how they're dealt with, look at these groups:
leveymg
Jun 2013
#33
On second glance, are you suggesting that OWS was preemptive of something bigger?
leveymg
Jun 2013
#38
Okhrana seems to have had several sources of inspiration (and allegiance) , but the figure who
leveymg
Jun 2013
#59
I always chuckle when the Brits claim that England was never conquered or ruled by foreigners.
leveymg
Jun 2013
#71
If there is one thing that the Brits do well, it is that they maintain their sense of history.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#82
TIA started as a DARPA-DIA project. NSA is the corpus for practically everyone else in the IC.
leveymg
Jun 2013
#68
I think it would be more accurate to say the NSA corpus is the source for others use.
hootinholler
Jun 2013
#79
How did I miss that '07 thread? The commments in the thread are timeless. Get this: "Waxman is
leveymg
Jun 2013
#100
Well since Adbusters magazine sent out a "communique" to readers calling for the ACTION
Generic Other
Jun 2013
#55
For the FBI or other Agencies surveiling this site, I just want to confirm you're doing a great job.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#80