The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/wonderful-american-world-informers-and-agents-provocateurs-1372428691

The first is about surveillance. The second is about provocation.

On September 17, 2011, Plan A for the New York activists who came to be known as Occupy Wall Street was to march to the territory outside the bank headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. Once there, they discovered that the block was entirely fenced in. Many activists came to believe that the police had learned their initial destination from e-mail circulating beforehand. Whereupon they headed for nearby Zuccotti Park and a movement was born.

The evening before May Day 2012, a rump Occupy group marched out of San Francisco’s Dolores Park and into the Mission District, a neighborhood where not so many 1-percenters live, work, or shop. There, they proceeded to trash “mom and pop shops, local boutiques and businesses, and cars,” according to Scott Rossi, a medic and eyewitness, who summed his feelings up this way afterward: “We were hijacked.” The people “leading the march tonight,” he added, were

“clean cut, athletic, commanding, gravitas not borne of charisma but of testosterone and intimidation. They were decked out in outfits typically attributed to those in the ‘black bloc’ spectrum of tactics, yet their clothes were too new, and something was just off about them. They were very combative and nearly physically violent with the livestreamers on site, and got ignorant with me, a medic, when I intervened... I didn’t recognize any of these people. Their eyes were too angry, their mouths were too severe. They felt ‘military’ if that makes sense. Something just wasn’t right about them on too many levels.”

[Enthusiast]

1. I think the NSA surveillance and the national security

mechanism exists mostly to protect the interests of the corporations.

Occupy's main mission was to point out the injustices done in the interest of Wall Street fraudsters. In response, the government brought a coordinated effort to destroy the movement. Nothing could have been more anti-American.

[Coyotl]

2. The Corporations have their own security organizations

You conflate government and the corporations!

[Enthusiast]

4. Lol. nt

[zeemike]

5. Yes they do.

And if you read the article you see that they cooperate and coordinate with the FBI and other government agencies...that means the government serves them not us...and we pay for it.

[cantbeserious]

6. Right You Are

eom

[zeemike]

3. K&R for a good read.

And shows the fusion of government and big busness...