In Case You've Forgotten
Some are castigating Trump for his crackdown on protesters in Portland while excusing Obama for his crackdown on the Occupy Movement in 2011. They have apparently forgotten just how evil Obama's actions were. Here's an excellent reminder by Naomi Wolf from The Guardian's December 29, 2012 issue.
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. The document – reproduced here in an easily searchable format – shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.
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Why the huge push for counterterrorism "fusion centers", the DHS militarizing of police departments, and so on? It was never really about "the terrorists". It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.
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Thank you for this!
Absolutely vital to know about!
The Guardian used to rock
Anyone have any idea what happened???
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Guardian got raided and forced to destroy their hard drives
Ever since then, they've been a lot more mealy-mouthed and pussy-foot.
(When they haven't been active co-conspirators, e.g. in the case of Julian Assange.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Any more details?
Who did it? Is there any recourse? Anyone working to get Justice for them (or at least revenge, which is a second-best option I truly think we disdain at our peril)?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Is this foretelling what a Biden presidency will do?
First, there seems to be an utter memory hole about what happened to OWS. I know on another site OWS was simply dismissed as a failure. No it was smashed.
The democratic party establishment has a history of either co'opting leftist movements and insurgencies or violently putting them down. Bernie was co'opted but when OWS (or Chicago democratic convention demonstrators in 1968) refused to be co'opted, it was violently put down and buried into a rat hole.
BLM was pretty much co'opted and diverted until the Floyd George murder. And now the democratic party is trying to co'opt it, but not working in some very visible instances as protesters have turned on democratic party mayors, etc. And of course add this to the totally passivity of party leadership in face of corvid except for symbolic shows and phony tweets.
Biden will turn to force to put down the movement in various parts of the country. And he will get the backing of Congressional, state, and local democratic leadership whether black or white. But now sure how effective it will be.