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In reply to the discussion: Remember that time Occupy was examined by The Government & No One Gave A Shit? [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)crackdown.
It started off as a nutjob conspiracy theory based on pure speculation--that Obama was a Mubarak type of figure crushing dissent with violence.
And then the FOIA documents lack a single page of evidence of federal coordination of a crackdown on any local level, let alone the national level.
But, because people are so emotionally invested in their paranoid fantasy, every page that says "Occupy Wall Street" on government letterhead becomes proof of an evil conspiracy theory.
The government is capable of doing all kinds of horrible things and has done so throughout history.
But, before you go accusing Obama of engaging in the worst mass violation of civil liberties in American history, you really should get evidence.
Until then, shrill barking into an idiot wind.