Prosecutors Wait to Spring "Conspiracy" Indictments On Occupy Movement Leaders

[SoDesuKa]

Prosecutors looking to shut down the Occupy protests have almost certainly prepared a generic "conspiracy" indictment to be used against movement leaders. All they need now is a substantive crime, and they'll fill in the blanks. Similar legal paperwork that's been used in the past suggests that it won't take much to argue that Defendants A, B, C, D and E conspired to commit a violation of Section ### of the Criminal Code, to wit . . .

Undercover officers have already picked out the "most valuable players" - the people who've been important to the success of the movement. These people will be distracted with burdensome legal problems -- conspiracies, after all, are felonies. This tactic has long been an aspect of the history of official responses to movements that upset the status quo. Fortunately, the Occupy "leaders" seem to be aware of this threat. They've avoided titles or other trappings of office. They've also managed to maintain discipline within what could easily be an unruly grouping.



Defendants A, B, C, D and E . . . .

[formercia]

1. What Leader?

I am Spartacus.

[Rabblevox]

2. Unfortunately, it ain't that simple...

even in "leaderless" consensus-based groups, leaders emerge, and the cops know who you are. They don't have to nab "Spartacus" if they just slap conspiracy charges on the 10-20 % of the occupiers doing the actual work.

Tying up the best and the brightest and most dedicated with felonies would be a brutally effective tactic.

[Marazinia]

5. Gotta teach people to think and act for themselves

Someone gets arrested, step in and take up the work they were doing. Someone acts narky, don't talk to that person. Someone starts spreading rumor and slander among the group, that's an agent, boot them. Someone advocates the commission of a crime, that's an agent provocateur, get rid of that one, too. And get footage documenting these guys while you're at it. And if you can find a private investigator willing to check up on a suspected agent, do that, too. Because the biggest mistake activists tend to make is to take the government at its word that it won't use its power to crush dissent. They have and they are. Be ready.

[lunatica]

3. As soon as they can find those leaders

I can see someone ordering the leaders to step forward and the whole group steps forward in unison.

[formercia]

9. I am Spartacus.

We are all the Leader.

[Why Syzygy]

4. They have some gall ..

The contentious scene in the Bronx concluded a week of deep embarrassment for the New York Police Department and Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who at a news conference acknowledged the difficulty of having "to announce for the second time this week that police officers have been arrested for misconduct."

Federal agents earlier in the week arrested eight current and former officers on accusations that they had brought illegal firearms, slot machines and black-market cigarettes into New York City. Recently, other officers have been charged in federal court with making false arrests, and there was testimony in a trial in Brooklyn that narcotics detectives planted drugs on innocent civilians.

Of the 16 officers arraigned on Friday, ranking as high as lieutenant, 11 were charged with crimes related to fixing tickets. All of them pleaded not guilty, and all but two were released without bail. Officer Ramos was held in $500,000 cash bail. Jennara Cobb, a lieutenant in the Internal Affairs Bureau, was released after posting a $20,000 bail bond. She was accused of leaking information about the investigation to other officers.



http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/8155-focus-nypd-officers-angered-by-corruption-probe

NYPD is CORRUPTION. Bordering on racketeering:

During the investigation, overseen by the Bronx district attorney's office, prosecutors found fixing tickets to be so extensive that they considered charging the union under the state racketeering law as a criminal enterprise, the tactic employed against organized crime families. But they apparently concluded that the evidence did not support that approach.

[MadMaddie]

6. And the defense would be why didn't the police go after the

Tea Party for the same thing and they were armed.

[qb]

7. Conspiracy to assemble peacefully?

:crazy:

[Angry Dragon]

8. then they should have no problem going after the kock brothers

they crossed state lines to do their conspiracies