Hi escapists, i was up late doing homework when i came across a lovely article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
From the article:
"The documents, released after long delay in the week between Christmas and New Year, show a nationwide meta-plot unfolding in city after city in an Orwellian world: six American
universities are sites where campus police funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the administrations' knowledge (p51); banks sat down with FBI officials
to pool information about OWS protesters harvested by private security; plans to crush Occupy
events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI ? and offered to the
representatives of the same organizations that the protests would target; and even threats of
the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire ? by whom? Where? ? now remain redacted and
undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform
the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader (p61)."
The article mainly describes the fusion between government, private intelligence, and
financial groups; and how they gathered private information (illegal in some cases) and shared
it between each other. Also the article describes how the organizers and leaders were
frequently described as "terrorist threats" by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Great.
SO, I'm curious to hear the escapists thoughts on the matter.
[sub][sub]also, why wasn't this on the news here in the US?[/sub][/sub]
EDIT: oh shizznit, I dug up a older topic on the subject:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.397439-Crackdown-of-Occupy-Movement
Whelp, either way, what is your response?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
From the article:
"The documents, released after long delay in the week between Christmas and New Year, show a nationwide meta-plot unfolding in city after city in an Orwellian world: six American
universities are sites where campus police funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the administrations' knowledge (p51); banks sat down with FBI officials
to pool information about OWS protesters harvested by private security; plans to crush Occupy
events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI ? and offered to the
representatives of the same organizations that the protests would target; and even threats of
the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire ? by whom? Where? ? now remain redacted and
undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform
the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader (p61)."
The article mainly describes the fusion between government, private intelligence, and
financial groups; and how they gathered private information (illegal in some cases) and shared
it between each other. Also the article describes how the organizers and leaders were
frequently described as "terrorist threats" by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Great.
SO, I'm curious to hear the escapists thoughts on the matter.
[sub][sub]also, why wasn't this on the news here in the US?[/sub][/sub]
EDIT: oh shizznit, I dug up a older topic on the subject:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.397439-Crackdown-of-Occupy-Movement
Whelp, either way, what is your response?