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EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 03:57 PM Dec 2011

Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy San Francisco

December 27, 2011

Low Friends in High Places
Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy
by CARL FINAMORE

A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” was launched to influence police and politicians to aggressively demobilize Occupy SF and to dismantle their encampments. And, there are documents to prove it.

Things did not start out this way.

When the Occupy movement first took root on Saturday, September 17, 2011 in New York’s famously renamed Liberty Square, it took the country and the whole world by surprise.

None more shocked than the now notoriously renamed one per cent. They were embarrassed by the spotlight on their secretive, self-serving, and sometimes illegal transactions.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/27/triad-of-business-cops-politicians-attack-occupy/

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Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy San Francisco (Original Post) EFerrari Dec 2011 OP
Shows us what we have to fight. Downwinder Dec 2011 #1
Yeah, the Unholy Trinity of security forces, politicians and capital. EFerrari Dec 2011 #2
Well the GIs came back from Korea and threw all of the Downwinder Dec 2011 #3

Downwinder

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1. Shows us what we have to fight.
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 04:54 PM
Dec 2011

Also indicates that some strategic and tactical changes are necessary. The best defense is a good offense.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
2. Yeah, the Unholy Trinity of security forces, politicians and capital.
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 05:52 PM
Dec 2011

Their fraternity is our challenge, for sure.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
3. Well the GIs came back from Korea and threw all of the
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 06:16 PM
Dec 2011

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Greeks out of office at the University of Texas.

The 442 veterans group took over HI politics.

It can be done.

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