'US government is scared of Occupy movement'

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/07/27/252995/us-govt-scared-of-occupy-movement/

So this global crisis has resulted in uprisings all around the world from the Middle East to Europe, to Greece. So the US government is paying a very careful attention to this knowing that here in the United States where people here are suffering a deep economic crisis that a protest movement here a vibrant protest movement that can force this government to make drastic changes or do away with the current government altogether is a possibility and this is why we saw when the Occupy movement happened here, when it was the Arab spring, as they say, coming to the United States even though there have been many other upsurges and protest movements in the US in recent years.

When the Occupy movement here started and we know now because a great law from Partnership for Civil Justice has uncovered hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from Homeland Security and from local law enforcement that showed when the Occupy movement started, there is a nationally coordinated surveillance and spying effort directed at people who are protesting and not only that, there is a nationally coordinated violent crackdown, illegal crackdowns on peaceful protests all around the country with the intent of scaring people from ever protesting again, with the intent of smashing the movement that was raising legitimate demands, simple demands about the need for jobs and the deep student debt that college students are living with.

And so what we have seen is that this country that tries to lecture the rest of the world about democracy and free speech and freedom of assembly tries to use these things as excuses to sanction and attack other countries around the world that this country itself, the right to free speech, the right to freedom of assembly that are supposed to be the most cherished rights under the constitution and the one that the US government brags about all the time and uses to lecture to other countries, in fact instead of aiding the constitutional rights of people who are protesting, used all the power and technology and minds of the state to try to smash that protest movement which has actually succeeded in doing to a large part because they have destroyed the Occupy encampments and they have intimidated hundreds of people from coming into the streets again.

[TheWraith]

1. Relying on Iranian state propaganda for a boost?

Kind of pathetic.

[joelz]

2. No you can find this on U.S. media if you look

JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation.
The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD’s main data center.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing “profound gratitude” for the company’s donation.
“These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Dimon said. “We’re incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work.”

http://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/j-p-morgan-chase-makes-largest-ever-donation-of-4-6-million-to-nypd-foundation/

[emulatorloo]

3. Nice try, but that's a different subject.

[emulatorloo]

4. Any port in a storm, right?

Good catch.

[snot]

5. Which facts in the OP do you dispute?

Agreed, not my first choice as a source; but most or all of this has been reported by other reliable sources, see, e.g., http://tinyurl.com/d874hma .

[99th_Monkey]

7. I just read what you posted

not the entire article, but what you posted was reasonably
accurate and aligned with the facts about OWS and the gov't
responses to it.

Thanks for posting it.

[Zorra]

8. Exactly. 7/18/12 - Spying On Occupy?

ACLU files FOIA Lawsuit Against the FBI

Last fall's law enforcement response was also coordinated, with simultaneous crackdowns across the country in November 2011. As the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other media outlets reported that month, a non-governmental law enforcement group called "PERF," or the Police Executive Research Forum, coordinated conference calls with big city mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and the response to Occupy. More recently, documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund show that the Department of Homeland Security was engaged in nationwide monitoring and surveillance of the Occupy movement.

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[snot]

9. +1!

Great concept! You shd put a bigger graphic together, if not real bumper stickers.

[99th_Monkey]

6. Pathetic that USA citizens must resort to RTV, Current, Al Jazeera, et. al.

Because our own "news" sources are all pretty much owned by the 1%.