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Showing Original Post only (View all)Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy [View all]
Source: The Guardian
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall so mystifying at the time was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
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Exactly! It's all about keeping the masses under control in a failing society. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#51
American Republic is Falling Apart: Suppression is Answered by Mass-Killings
pcbynature
Dec 2012
#79
Bush's "Free Speech Zones" ought to have been enough. Funny, certain infringements on our freedom
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#7
True, but yes, the Rs still get the lion's share of blame. By dragging the center so far
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#73
Way past knee-deep in pure classical Fascism imo: ye will know them by their works
indepat
Dec 2012
#16
Didn't read this article, but I read about FBI surveillance some days or a week ago in US media. nt
reACTIONary
Dec 2012
#19
The coordinated, nationwide evictions were not aimed at preventing violence or vandalism,
snot
Dec 2012
#42
If this much has surfaced, one can only wonder what is behind the redactions.
DollarBillHines
Dec 2012
#12
once she starts hanging with the troofers and the birthers, her credibility is questionable
Adenoid_Hynkel
Dec 2012
#15
Total fail on the part of the person claiming Wolf's a hack bec. there was no federal coordination!
snot
Dec 2012
#24
There is another type of fallacy, however: Argument from a questionable source...
Moonwalk
Dec 2012
#35
Ok this ticks me off Who does the FBI and SEC work for? THE BANKS! or for America
lovuian
Dec 2012
#29
Sounds to me like you side with the FBI and police and not with Occupy. Whose side are you one? nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#53
Ahh yes. They should have been better organized and protested where the oligarchs told them.
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#67
You mean, apart from the part where the FBI ignored threats to assassinate OWS leaders?
Octafish
Dec 2012
#82
It's sad. OWS still trying to justify their ineptitude. Blame it on "the government".
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#60
So much easier than organizers had it in 1900. Maybe 'cause they didn't pose so
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#75