How Our Massive Homeland Security Apparatus Does the Bidding of the Big Banks

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/how-our-massive-homeland-security-apparatus-does-bidding-big-banks



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As detailed in a report from DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD), " Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street," through 2011 and 2012, "fusion centers" and other "counter terrorism" agencies engaged in widespread monitoring of Occupy Wall Street activists.

Records obtained by DBA/CMD indicate that, in some instances, these "counter terrorism" agencies worked in partnership with corporate interests to gather and disseminate intelligence relating to the activities of citizens engaged in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ironically, records indicate that corporate entities engaged in such public-private intelligence sharing partnerships were often the very same corporate entities criticized, and protested against, by the Occupy Wall Street movement as having undue influence in the functions of public government.

This article examines the effects of such public-private intelligence sharing partnerships in Arizona, and how such partnerships benefited corporate interests that were subjects of Occupy Phoenix protest actions through 2011 and 2012.

Arizona Fusion Center Work on Behalf of Banks

In October of 2011, Jamie Dimon, president and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, had plans to travel to Phoenix for a "town hall" event with 2,000 of his employees at Chase Field (home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, located in downtown Phoenix). As Dimon is one of the most powerful men on Wall Street and the head of the largest bank in the country -- a bank that played a key role in the collapse of the U.S. economy in 2008 -- JP Morgan Chase Regional Security Manager Dan Grady contacted Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center personnel on October 17 (the day before Dimon's scheduled visit), to ensure a smooth landing for Dimon in Phoenix.

[liberal N proud]

1. Nothing gets done in the modern world that is not driven by greed!

We had to know that when this monster was created, it was not for the good of the nation

[marmar]

2. Gangsters for capitalism, as Smedley Butler said.

nt

[another_liberal]

3. When big money talks . . .

There can be little doubt that when the big money talks, law enforcement says, "Yes sir! Right away, sir!"

Thank you for posting this information, xchrom. Far too few Americans, even those on DU, know where the taxes they pay for the support of police departments really go.

[historylovr]

4. K & R

[dotymed]

5. This is the definition of fascism. n/t

[woo me with science]

6. +1

[Fuddnik]

8. It's definitely fascism now.

Can't put lipstick on this pig any longer.

We have an illusion of democracy. Well managed by the corporations and banks. They pick our candidates, narrowing the choice between "Bad Choice A", and "Bad Choice B". It narrows the range of policy debate, and we always end up the losers.

Protest, and get beaten, gassed, pepper sprayed, and jailed. It's the New American Way.

[sulphurdunn]

7. Dimon

probably has cops wipe his ass.

[woo me with science]

9. K&R

[gopiscrap]

10. Exactly I found this out first hand

when I was helping lead the Occupy MOvement in Tacoma

[woo me with science]

11. kick

[progressoid]

12. So now the wealthy don't even need private security.

[woo me with science]

13. kick

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. "Odd" how republicans didn't cry SCANDAL when a democratic administration targeted

and attacked Occupy.

NOT