Reply #5: Yep.

[mmonk]

Thanks for posting this. It is what I have been warning some about. I've seen all this before. I did not know that many were criminals working for favor with authorities (except for narcs which when people would get nervous, they would start calling each other that when things would go wrong).

The purpose of OWS was never violence in its inception. In fact, our local Occupy was painstaking in training people in non violent, non provocative protest and how to be when arrested. We also had legal observers trained by local lawyers and people to pick up people when released from detention after processing.