4 years ago the Occupy Wall Street Movement kicked off… Seeing and hearing about commemorative marches and gatherings.. Hearing conversations about whether or not its tactics were effective or not and how and why OWS failed .. What I’m not hearing is how OWS was the unwanted beneficiary of the insidious tactics and full weight of the police/ surveillance state…
I’m not hearing about how we saw corporate terrorism in full bloom Wall street outfits were able to privatize NYPD and have them work and report directly to them under a then little known program called Paid Detail.. During the height of Occupy wall Street, Chase Manhattan had forked over 4.6 million to make sure NYPD followed their directives..
I’m not hearing any follow up stories to how the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund got hold of the FBI and Homeland Security documents that revealed how those agencies along with campus police where Occupy sites were set up and bank security coordinated efforts to infiltrate and violently take down OWS. DHS considered the Occupy Movement a domestic terrorist and criminal threat..
Funny how very few people link this gross intrusion and trampling of our privacy to President Obama and his administration. In fact a number of people cheered him on once it was revealed that the FBI had started monitoring OWS almost a month before it started.. One has to wonder how much of the disruptive, off putting elements many encountered and found within OWS were brought and paid for by DHS and the FBI?
Even more importantly, we should all be asking how was this massive sp[ying operation and trampling of our privacy and right to assemble and protest ever addressed and solved. What lawmakers stepped up to the plate and put forth legislation to prevent that from happening again? Today we know that the FBI bolstered by what they were able to get away with during the Occupy Movement is actively monitoring and trying to disrupt, discredit and ultimately derail the Black Lives Matter Movement..There’s been very little outcry about that on going surveillance..
Its also noteworthy that many do not connect the brutality of police directed at Occupy Movement with the current wave of terror we are experiencing with police.. Once we understand that the police were working and their brutality greenlit by the Federal government, during OWS, then it should be clear as day that there will probably be little movement or resolution from the Feds now..
It’s a shame that our local news stations which remarking about this 4 year anniversary and talking about a gathering in SF at noon are not speaking on domestic surveillance.. How come the silence NBC Bay Area?? How come the silence KTVU Channel 2?? How come the silence KRON 4 News..
For folks who think this is all an exaggeration you can see those documents yourself.. http://bit.ly/1OyMOfl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQbRXaGsjM
It’s almost 5:30 am here in Las Vegas. Ha I g breakfast with my cousin from Boston in few hours so I should go back to sleep. Flew in from Oakland last night.
I have ‘t yet looked at the link in your OWS story for the background documents, will do later today. I commented on your FB page last week re you getting a broader audience so your voice is heard. After reading this I think a Glen Greenwald approach might be a right fit. There Must be someway one of our colleges could provide research assistants for you.
The point is that I am not Reading your work your ideas anywhere else. Not fletcher. Not west. Not the guy from Black Agenda (memory lapse).
Okay, back to sleep.
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