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In reply to the discussion: The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)113. Wrong, FOIA documents proved the Federal Coordination against OWS from the beginning.
Did you miss the extraction of those documents through the FOIA, and they did have to be extracted. And despite the heavy redactions (what are they HIDING there) it is clear that the FBI coordinated with HMS designating those peaceful protests as a 'terror threat' despite acknowledging they were nothing of the kind.
It seems we have to keep on posting the facts every time this comes up.
The FBI V Secret Docs
.... the documents, as you stated, show that the FBI and American intelligence agencies were monitoring and reporting on Occupy Wall Street before the first tent even went up in Zuccotti Park. The documents that we have been able to obtain show the FBI communicating with the New York Stock Exchange in August of 2011 about the upcoming Occupy demonstrations, about plans for the protests. It shows them meeting with or communicating with private businesses. And throughout the materials, there is repeated evidence of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, American intelligence agencies really working as a private intelligence arm for corporations, for Wall Street, for the banks, for the very entities that people were rising up to protest against.
The FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION/FBI, that's FEDERAL again, just to emphasize that we know that the attacks on OWS were coordinated at a FEDERAL Level with coordination between the FBI, the NYSE, wow, DHS, Local Police, Private Security, local Politicians to their shame, many of them Dems, and we know from the Mayor of Oakland herself, that she coordinated with the mayors of 18 other cities. Not to mention the militarized NYPD which became known, thanks to his own words, as 'Bloomberg's Army'.
And all this to try to shut the people up, to deprive them of their 1st Amendment rights and all to protect WALL ST.
And worse, they treated these American citizens as TERRORISTS, using COUNTER TERROR tactics against them. That of course we saw thanks to the foresight of the organizers in ensuring that everything was video taped.
Please stop denying the facts, they are far to easy to access.
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puts her looney-tunes claim that the Obama administration coordinated the OWS crackdown in its
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#2
My brief googling did not turn up multiple, reliable sources for this claim. I'll delete my posts.
Scuba
Oct 2014
#92
See my post below, you were correct, the attacks on OWS were coordinated at a Federal
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#114
Wrong, FOIA documents proved the Federal Coordination against OWS from the beginning.
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#113
Agreed -- but it's Wolf's inserting herself into the issue that's the problem
starroute
Oct 2014
#91
WHAT!?!?!?!?! How can that....that's a regular greek tragedy I tell you! lol
EX500rider
Oct 2014
#99
It has been established that federal resources were used and that the banks were involved
GoneFishin
Oct 2014
#23
Wrong, again. FOIA documents have proven the Federal Coordination to crackdown on OWS.
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#116
Maybe you should have read more of them. There is no question that the attacks on OWS were Federally
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#129
Federal assets and the financial sector both crushed OWS. This has already
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2014
#47
If there were plenty where did they go? Police did crack down hard in some cities,
snooper2
Oct 2014
#54
True and I think the biggest problem is that there were intentionally no leaders and no end date
karynnj
Oct 2014
#89
Really? To say you are wrong is not really necessary for anyone who knows the facts. So I won't
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#130
you can trace it back to the Clinton administration where conspiracy theories got play in much
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#4
Thanks, I fixed that. I do that a lot with those two, unfortunately. :( n/t
OneGrassRoot
Oct 2014
#7
The following nastiness was a "conspiracy," too, until recently declassified documents came to light
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#5
Homo Sapien Sapien coexisted with Homo Sapien Idaltu who coexisted w/ Neanderthal for a time.
loudsue
Oct 2014
#10
Your post and others in that vein, flat out disgust me. Do you have a clue how callous you are?
cali
Oct 2014
#19
One has to personally know people to object to conspiracy loons treating their tragic loss
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#33
No, Manny, Wolf really is in the same category as Sandy Hook truthers
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2014
#80
You were right to keep this to yourself. Suggesting that the victims are part of a fraud
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#31
I see the beheadings as having the same effect as the attacks of 9/11. The
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2014
#58
You fail, as usual. And I'm still here despite the best efforts you are capable of...
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2014
#87
I'm still here! Hahahahahahahaa! you can't get rid of meeeeeee....!!!111!11
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2014
#110
of course. that's totally reasonable, but it's not the topic and it's nothing close to
cali
Oct 2014
#65
Who says the victims have to be fake for right wing chicken hawks to be behind
GoneFishin
Oct 2014
#32
this really isn't rocket science: Being targeted by The U.S. is great for recruitment
cali
Oct 2014
#46
Hmmm...She seems mostly to be asking that journalists do their job and verify. (I have no doubts.)
WinkyDink
Oct 2014
#40
I liked "The Beauty Myth." And her "The Shock Doctrine" I should probably read.
WinkyDink
Oct 2014
#90
I thought the Beauty Myth was lacking- not particularly insightful. She didn't write the Shock
cali
Oct 2014
#94
Naomi has entered "death panel" territory. I'm pondering what her DU handle might be.
Tarheel_Dem
Oct 2014
#104
Another journalist who simply asks for rational thinking is thrown under the bus
Corruption Inc
Oct 2014
#105