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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 22 May 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)125. Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy? by DAVE LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/did-the-white-house-direct-the-police-crackdown-on-occupy/
A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild makes it increasingly evident that there was and is a nationally coordinated campaign to disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.
The new documents, which PCJF National Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard insists are likely only a subset of responsive materials, in the possession of federal law enforcement agencies, only scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with anti-terrorism funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement. Nonetheless, blacked-out and limited though they are, she says they offer clues to the extent of the governments concern about and focus on the wave of occupations that spread across the country beginning with last Septembers Occupy Wall Street action in New York City.
The latest documents, reveal intense involvement by the DHSs so-called National Operations Center (NOC). In its own literature, the DHS describes the NOC as the primary national-level hub for domestic situational awareness, common operational picture, information fusion, information sharing, communications, and coordination pertaining to the prevention of terrorist attacks and domestic incident management.
The DHS says that the NOC is the primary conduit for the White House Situation Room and that it also facilitates information sharing and operational coordination with other federal, state, local, tribal, non-governmental operation centers and the private sector.
A better description for a fascist police state network could not be written.
A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild makes it increasingly evident that there was and is a nationally coordinated campaign to disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.
The new documents, which PCJF National Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard insists are likely only a subset of responsive materials, in the possession of federal law enforcement agencies, only scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with anti-terrorism funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement. Nonetheless, blacked-out and limited though they are, she says they offer clues to the extent of the governments concern about and focus on the wave of occupations that spread across the country beginning with last Septembers Occupy Wall Street action in New York City.
The latest documents, reveal intense involvement by the DHSs so-called National Operations Center (NOC). In its own literature, the DHS describes the NOC as the primary national-level hub for domestic situational awareness, common operational picture, information fusion, information sharing, communications, and coordination pertaining to the prevention of terrorist attacks and domestic incident management.
The DHS says that the NOC is the primary conduit for the White House Situation Room and that it also facilitates information sharing and operational coordination with other federal, state, local, tribal, non-governmental operation centers and the private sector.
A better description for a fascist police state network could not be written.
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