The rich always send the police to break apart any burgeoning subculture.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Stamp down the emergent, anything that could or would take away their power. And that includes anything that would not need them, because that obsoletes them. They are quite predatory about this, for good reason. They are attempting to survive, but at the expense of everything else.

(Reposting a comment I thought might be worth an OP.)

Do they always succeed? No :)

[Angry Dragon]

1. If you close your eyes it could be any dictator country

[Lint Head]

2. Please no. Keep your eyes open and see the corporate fascist theocratic state

we need to rid this country of.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I never said keep them closed

Don't you ever close your eyes so you can see something more clearly, to actually see and hear the words without the chaos in the world distorting the facts??

It is a war

[shanti]

8. that it is....

i'm steaming after reading my local newspaper. the baggers are making comments like "throw them over the bridge", etc. our culture has become considerably more open about their violent thoughts and actions, and it saddens me to see such a schism here on DU as well. :(

[defendandprotect]

11. True ... but the MIC/and corrupt government are serving corporate/fascists -- !!

They're all the same poeple and they have control of our government !!

"Congress is under the control of the oil and coal industries" --

Al Gore/Rolling Stone this summer

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. It is not that blatantly obvious...or is it? Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; the Kennedy family

and others have suffered the ultimate fate for creating or representing threats to the powers that be.

The Kennedy family most unhappily for us never recovered. Instead we get the Anti-Kennedys, the Bush family.

But in the case of Martin Luther King, Jr., his sad death was by no means the end of his cause. So no, they do not always succeed.

#OccupyWallStreet is a flat, democratic organization. There is no pointman to eliminate, so watch for continued police attacks and pressure, attrition attacks, as well as other insidious tactics. Thankfully, this flat function allows them to adapt very quickly! I strongly believe in #OccupyWallStreet!

[defendandprotect]

14. More than 50 years of out in the open RW political violence ... followed by stolen elections ...

and a Goebbels' style press --

all because this is actually a RW nation -- ROFL -- !!!

[eleny]

5. That's why Breitbart was so cocky about military having his back - even if he lied at the time

We all know what some in law enforcement are willing to do.

[DBoon]

6. Police "red squads" started 150 years ago

the whole point was to track and harass political dissidents

[socialist_n_TN]

7. I worry more about them co-opting it

They also do that to any burgeoning subculture phenomenen.

[leftstreet]

12. +1

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Kick.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Last kick. Thanks for the Recommends.

[slackmaster]

13. Odd, I was under the impression that police were under the command of the politicians...

...who we all elected.

[socialist_n_TN]

15. They're elected, but they owe their allegiance

to the ones who line their campaign chests with gold. Guess what? That's not us.

[slackmaster]

16. I lay the blame for that situation on the voters themselves for failing to educate themselves, think

Keep voting for the best-advertised candidates, and that's what you get.

[socialist_n_TN]

17. By that logic, you would blame the victim of a scam

and not the scammer.

[slackmaster]

18. Sometimes the victim of a scam bears part of the responsibility for being suckered

Especially when the exact same scam has been going on for decades.

Caveat emptor.