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Homeland Security Coordinated 18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest
Washington’s Blog
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

National Coordination Goes Against Protection of Local Accountability



According to Oakland Mayor Jean said that 18 cities coordinated police crack downs on Occupy protests.

Wonkette reports that Homeland Security likely organized the crack downs:

Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it's also now confirmedthat it's now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today. (Oh, and tonight, too: Seattle is being busted up by the riot copsright now, so be careful out there.)

Rick Ellis of the Minneapolis edition of Examiner.com has this, based on a "background conversation" he had with a Justice Department official on Monday night:

Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict "Occupy" protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night's move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.

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According to this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local police agencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of tent cities, focusing on zoning laws and existing curfew rules. Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a massive show of police force, including large numbers in riot gear. In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentation suggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when the press was the least likely to be present.

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(And for those who are understandably doubtful about Examiner.com as a news source,here's an AP story from a couple hours ago that verifies everything except the specific mention of DHS coordination.)

Yves Smith notes:

The 18 police action was a national, coordinated effort. This is a more serious development that one might imagine. Reader Richard Kline has pointed out that one of the de facto protections of American freedoms is that policing is local, accountable to elected officials at a level of government where voters matter. National coordination vitiates the notion that policing is responsive to and accountable to the governed.

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LOL the dick on the left. what an idiot.

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LOL the dick on the left. what an idiot.

I took it as meaning that is what is happening, corporate gains are for the few (private) whereas the failures and losses are subsidized by the many through the bailouts, etc. But that isn't really clear is it, maybe he is that dumb, but how is that possible, he's out protesting, he can't be that clueless

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ADL promotes conspiracy theories to undermine support for Palestine at Occupy Wall Street

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the influential pro-Israel lobby group headed by Abraham Foxman, is in a panic about support for Palestinian rights at Occupy Wall Street protests across the United States.

Seeking to delegitimize US popular solidarity with Palestinians suffering under US-financed Israeli occupation, apartheid and brutal violence, the ADL charged in a release on its website that, “Anti-Israel Groups Attempt to Co-Opt Occupy Wall Street Message.”

The release claims:

The anti-Israel left is engaged in a coordinated effort to unite their cause with the Occupy Wall Street (“OWS”) protests taking place in hundreds of cities around the country. In recent weeks, anti-Israel signs have been spotted at OWS protests and several anti-Israel groups have begun to organize campaigns using the language of OWS in an attempt to exploit the enthusiasm of the movement and channel it for their cause.

Spreading conspiracy theories

The ADL then goes on to list a whole range of Palestine solidarity actions at various Occupy protests around the country by groups as diverse as Adalah-NY, Jewish Voices for Peace, Jewish Women for Justice in Palestine, and Students for Justice in Palestine.

Foxman’s group cannot see Palestinians and their supporters as legitimate members of American society who might share the same concerns as other Americans. Nor can it respect or recognize that any support for Palestinian rights and opposition to Israeli crimes could be genuine.

So instead, the ADL seems to be spreading conspiracy theories about all-powerful pro-Palestinian groups able to manipulate and “exploit” gullible Americans and infiltrate and “co-opt” their movements with “coordinated” efforts.

ADL even condemns the Boycott National Committee (BNC) in Palestine for issuing a statement of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests.

You would think that if the ADL genuinely cared about the well-being of Americans it would welcome the support for Occupy Wall Street from all groups that, like the BNC and unlike the ADL, espouse universal human rights and social justice.

ADL promoting hate reminiscent of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews

ADL’s effort to ghettoize Palestinians and their supporters and declare them beyond the pale of American political life and activism are painfully reminiscent of attempts in America’s past to keep Jews out of public life and to villify them as subversives, anarchists and communists.

It is not surprising that the ADL has reacted this way given that Foxman has a long history of promoting Islamophobia. Morever, Steven Salaita has argued persuasively in his recent book Israel’s Dead Soul, that based on its own activities, the ADL should be classed as a “hate group” according to its own criteria. Its latest statement only adds to the body of evidence.

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Occupy Wall Street protesters vow to wear suits, blend in and get revenge for the Zuccotti Park raid
'Day of action' includes a sneak attack on the stock market
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The "day of action" is to begin early, with protesters converging on Wall Street camouflaged in business suits hoping to blend in with office workers trooping out of the subway.

"We will rise from beneath. They can't stop all of us. It's going to get crazy," vowed one organizer. "They took the first shot Tuesday night. [Thursday] we return fire. We will be peaceful, but we will resist."

The city said it was bracing for tens of thousands of people in the streets.

"The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city," said Howard Wolfson, deputy mayor for governmental affairs. "We will be prepared for that."

He said the Police Department was working with the MTA to head off any subway disruptions.

"We're ready," said a top police source. "The problem is no one knows how big they will be. We'll have a lot of people out there and if it doesn't pan out it'll look like overkill. But we're going to be ready for it, just in case."

The weather may curb the crowds: Indian summer vanishes today, leaving behind rain and temperatures in the 40s.

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At about 8:30 a.m. at the corner of Nassau and Pine Streets, about 300 people stood and sat in the intersection waving flags and singing. A few minutes later, a police officer announced through a megaphone: “You’re obstructing vehicle traffic. If you don’t leave the street you’ll be subject to arrest.”

Standing nearby, Bruce Cronin, 52, a professor at the City University of New York pointed to the officers manning the metal barricades that blocked the way to Walls Street.

“The police are doing the protesters’ job for them,” he said. “They are becoming allies.”



“You can’t arrest us all.”

After two men wearing suits were allowed to pass through a police barricade at the corner of Pine and William Streets, one protester said, “There’s a dress code for this intersection?”

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OWS video: NYPD arrest Philly police retired captain Raymond Lewis