Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns

Lawrence_Bird writes "The Feds helped break up the Occupy protests by providing advice and assistance from the FBI and DHS. From the article: 'Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said on Monday that her city and others across the country coordinated their crackdowns of Occupy Wall Street camps. Rick Ellis, a Minneapolis-based journalist for Examiner.com, reports that these cities also had the help of the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." In related conspiracy news, apcullen wrote in with a story by Time Magazine guest columnist Naomi Wolf who claims: "Instead of imminent safety issues, the timing of the crackdown was far more likely to do with the fact that the Occupy movement was planning something media-savvy at last: a 'carnival' on Wall Street on Thursday in which protesters would telegenically tell their individual stories of hardship, job loss and disenfranchisement. It is that event that posed a 'safety risk' — to the efforts of Wall Street and the Bloomberg administration to manage the narrative."

Re:Go with the simple over complex theory

[oh_my_080980980]

Now that's no way to talk about Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.....

Re:How is that possible?

[Anonymous Coward]

In Oakland we usually called that Sunday Evening after the Raiders Win and or Lose.

Re:How is that possible?

[LostAlaska]

2. The Occupy protests were jumping the shark and losing popular support as crime ramped up and local business suffered. How could crime have "ramped up" when there were so many cops standing around watching them? -------------------- Well there has been a surge in people getting beaten up pretty badly in the area with batons and attacks on people with the use of tasers and tear gas have gone up dramatically in the area. I'm guessing that's all the crime they speak of...

Idea for OWS - Rose Parade Spoof

[Tablizer]

Create a spoof of the Rose Parade on the same day. For example, a Scooby-Doo float that says "Rax the Rich!". (Except RIAA will get to them before the FBI does.)