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As many of you probably know, the NYPD made a brutal raid of the #Occupy encampment in New York City last night after 1am, with no warning. No cameras or press were allowed. Police destroyed the belongings and equipment of the protesters. Police doing a VERY good job to make sure as little as possible is recorded on camera. A CBS press helicopter was forced down. Overall, a spectacularly brutal display of force by the Iron Fist of the State showing how it's fully OWNED and captured by the Wall Street 1%. Furthermore, rumors on Twitter that the FEDs are coordinating these raids against Occupations with local police all across this country.
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism blogged on this later rumor but was looking for more independent confirmation.
See here for OccupyNYC livestream.
I found this on an email thread I'm a part of. Hat tip to MD for passing it along:
“I have become increasingly concerned – as had the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties – that the occupation was coming to pose a health and fire safety hazard to the protesters and to the surrounding community,” Mr. Bloomberg said. (..) Before the police moved in.... they set up a battery of lights and aimed them into the park.
-NY Times 15/11/2011
Sound Familiar? To you John Steinbeck readers it should:
" And then the raids - the swoop of armed deputies on the squatters' camps. Department of Health orders.
This camp is a menace to health.
Where we gonna go?
That's none of our business.
We got orders to get you out of here.
In half an our we set fire to the camp."
"Talking in the camps, and the deputies,
fat-assed men with guns sling on fat hips,
swaggering through the camps:
Give 'em somethin to think about.
Got to keep 'em in line or Christ only knows what they'll do! .."
Grapes of Wrath, J.Steinbeck - 1939
"The move also came hours after a small demonstration at City Hall on Monday by opponents of the protest, including local residents and merchants, some of whom urged the mayor to clear out the park."
NY Times 15/11/2011
More from Steinbeck:
"
Now and then a man tried;
crept on the land and cleared a piece,
trying like a thief to steal a little richness from the earth.
Secret gardens hidden in de weeds.
A package of carrots seeds and a few turnips. (..)
Secret gardening in the evenings, and water carried in a rusty can.
And then one day a deputy sheriff:
well, what you think you're doin'?
I ain't doin' no harm.
I had my eye on you. This ain't your land. You're trespassing.
The land ain't plowed, an' I ain't hurtin' it none.
You goddamned squatters. Pretty soon you'd think you owned it.
You'de be sore as hell. Think you owned it. Gett off now.
and the green little carrots were kicked of and the turnip greens trampled. ..."
To this i'll add:
#OccupyWallStreet in New York City was the mothership, and this will be brutal blow to it and the entire movement, BUT with 100s of occupations across the country/world, the broader movement will survive this and come back stronger. The other occupations will continue this fight, regardless of what happens in New York City. As with so many other cases, sometimes the children that are spawned by the mothership have to rise to the occasion when the mothership goes down. Let the 1000's of fires from occupations around world keep the dream alive
UPDATED. Mayor of Oakland ADMITS NATIONAL
COLLUSION with 18 mayors on the Occupy Crackdown! She let it slip on an interview with the BBC.
See here!
CROSS POSTED AT THE ECONOMIC MAVERICK