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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=akrowne@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:44 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [endthefed] The shocking truth about the crackdown on
Occupy - Naomi Wolf</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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face=verdana,arial,sans-serif>Brilliant piece... <BR><BR><A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy</A><BR><BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Why this massive mobilisation against these
not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people?... I was still deeply
puzzled as to why OWS, this hapless, hopeful band, would call out a violent
federal response. That is, until I found out what it was that OWS
actually wanted... [demand] No. 3 was the most clarifying:<B> draft laws
against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to
pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they
themselves are investors. </B>When I saw this list -- and especially the last
agenda item -- the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people
would be having the shit kicked out of them. <BR>...<BR>
<P>For the terrible insight to take away from news that the Department of
Homeland Security coordinated a violent crackdown is that the DHS does not
freelance. The DHS cannot say, on its own initiative, "we are going after
these scruffy hippies". Rather, DHS is answerable up a chain of command:
first, to New York Representative Peter King, head of the House homeland
security subcommittee, who naturally is influenced by his fellow congressmen
and women's wishes and interests. And the DHS answers directly, above King, to
the president (who was conveniently in Australia at the time).</P>
<P>In other words,<B> for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of
its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers,
with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to
order their police forces � pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and
training from the DHS � to make war on peaceful citizens.</B></P>
<P>But wait: why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions
against its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in
recent years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members
of the middle class (or upper middle class) � but they are leaving DC privy to
vast personal wealth, as we see from the "scandal" of presidential contender
Newt Gingrich's having been paid $1.8m for a few hours' "consulting" to
special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers who turn lobbyists are
common knowledge, but<B> the notion that <EM>congressmen and women are
legislating their own companies' profits </EM>is less widely known � and if
the books were to be opened, they would surely reveal corruption on a Wall
Street spectrum.</B></P>...<BR>
<P><B>Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that
the DHS and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its
emerging agenda is going to look like.
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