DHS and OWS: the leftwing version of Black Helicopters?

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Sunday October 30, 2011 · 4:47 PM PDT

2011/10/30 · 16:47

It seems to be taken as an article of faith here and in the Twitterverse that Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security are orchestrating local police departments in their crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street protests across the nation.

It is often cited as if it had been proven.

Remarkably, it is incredibly rare for anyone here to express even the tiniest bit of exception (yours truly being an exception).

It is reminiscent of the paranoia on the right under Clinton, in which Black Helicopters bearing UN operatives enforcing the edicts of the New World Order, were cracking down on patriots.

A challenge to those running with this conspiracy theory below the fold.

I will donate $100 to OWS, and stop posting at Daily Kos for a week, if you can provide more evidence--based on identified sources with actual knowledge--that the Federal Department of Homeland Security is coordinating these responses and pushing for the crackdowns than:

1) Barack Obama being born in Kenya; or

2) George W Bush being involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks;

What does not count as proof: Someone saying they heard some other unnamed person say that they heard that the DHS was involved.

Also not counting: stuff that the federal government did under past administrations.

Good luck!

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