Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy. 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. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media outlets (why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?) , filed this request. Verheyden-Hilliard points out the close partnering of banks, the New York Stock Exchange and at least one local Federal Reserve with the FBI and DHS, and calls it "police-statism":
Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes, OWS Finds a New Frontier. An eviction team carries out a family's belongings during a foreclosure eviction in Adams County, Colorado.
In angry exchanges before a Senate investigative committee, the storied Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs was accused of fueling a crisis that forced thousands of Americans from their homes and continues to ravage the US economy.Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images/File - John Moore December 5, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. We Are the 99% (as we gather together) Reverend Billy & The Church of Earthalujah! These words are taken from the preamble of The Declaration of The Occupation of New York.
Free and for the people. Take it! Occupy Wall Street Sept 17.