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CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead. According to the memo, if Democrats embrace OWS, “This would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.” The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.”
Congratulations, Occupations: you now have a much larger fight on your hands. If you can figure out a way to move beyond the fight of having to defend your First Amendment rights with law enforcement - which is an inept tactic - you'll find a more elusive and stronger opponent than the municipal officials you should be engaging now to make your physical occupations free of harassment by law enforcement.
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He threw stuff at an officer and then took his hat. He of course is going to get attacked for assaulting an officer. This is his 4th arrest since September when the movement started. I can’t believe people pity him.
It honestly pains me how pathetically dimwitted some of these people are.
...and you're taking what the NYPD and the Daily News' word about the incident?
Lily, unless Dad or Mom flies to Lichenstein or Singapore to visit your college fund and their mad money, it might serve you best to question what you read (and things that I omit for a reason) because you're more like Brandon and me than you are the people telling cops to pressure occupations and telling journalists what not to report.
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It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:
Glad this photo saw the light of day.
I wish that more cops understood the practice and value of civil disobedience.
He said Watts, of Philadelphia, Pa., put together his tent a day after Jesse Jackson helped protect a medical tent from being dismantled on Oct. 17.
“A [police] captain told him to take it down,” the protester said. “[Watts] said, ‘No.’ He faced the cops down. After that, tents started popping up everywhere. That kid was a fighter.”
Soon after protesters started pitching tents, a gal pal of Watts’ told the New York Times Magazine he lost his virginity at the encampment.
“Brandon lost his virginity today — not to me,” Core Jones, 20, told the magazine on Oct. 23. “I don’t know who the girl is. But I want to have a party for him.”
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that’s an amazing image.
Yeah, that is an iconic image there.
Incredible.
the-mtblog
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Cookie Monster may be about to get arrested in front of us. Second time he's approached cop line.
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is the @NYCMayorsOffice a branch of the Galatic Empire?
One of the appalling things here is that there are so many Democratic mayors involved in these crackdowns or in Bloomberg's case, someone who is seen as a liberal," Ehrenreich said in a telephone interview. "And where in all this was Obama? Why couldn't he have picked up the phone at some point a couple of weeks ago and called the mayors of Portland and Oakland and said: 'go easy on these people. They represent the anger and aspirations of the majority'. Would that have been so difficult?
Where is Lori Saldaña, Susan Davis or Bob Filner for Occupy San Diego? It looks like Filner doesn't even recognize himself in Occupiers.
They don't seem to have any more guts than the City Council has.
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A monk is holding the serf back: pitch perfect.
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There’s a metal monster looming over Liberty Square, but don’t ask questions about it or else.
Could we expect any better from one of NewsCorp's tentacles?
I wouldn't.
Remember this the next time you see or hear a right-wing reactionary put down demonstrations.
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....One of the most fatuous themes of mainstream OWS coverage is the endless loop of media bafflement at this movement that doesn’t have a message. Erin Burnett (uttered) a classic put-down of the OWS’ refusal to tailor its message to her. It takes a walloping amount of willful cluelessness to look at a mass of people holding up signs and claim that they have no message.Occupy Wall Street is not a movement without a message. It’s a movement that has wisely shunned the one-note, pre-chewed, simple-minded messaging required for cable television as it now exists. It’s a movement that feels no need to explain anything to the powers that be, although it is deftly changing the way we explain ourselves to one another.
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Time for a Civil Action against Tony Baloney
“Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who came under fire for pepper spraying a group of kettled women during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration near Union Square in September, was fined two weeks pay — about $6,000 — for violating department standards.”
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-From here
WTF!? This dude makes $3000 fucking dollars a fucking week??? Do the math, that's like $150,000 a year. This dude's a fucking cop man; a cop making a shit load of fucking money. Something smells.
I guess that it's time for a civil action against him. Maybe even a Civil Rights prosecution against Balogna. Duress of process will be the stiffest punishment to come against him.
The corporate cheerleaders on CNBC, for example, reached back to the nasty days of McCarthyism to smear the youthful protesters as "aligned with Lenin." Little Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader who loyally serves the banksters as their Washington lapdog, yapped in alarm about "the growing mobs occupying Wall Street." Then came Mitt Romney, himself a former Wall Streeter, to warn darkly against the protesting rabble: "I think it's dangerous – this class warfare." Even more clueless is Herman Cain. Previously the CEO of Godfather's Pizza chain who's now running for president, he can't stop foaming at the mouth about the Wall Street occupation. "Anti-American," he labeled the protesters, later blasting them as losers who're "jealous" of successful people: "Don't blame Wall Street," he lectured. "If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself."
Jim Hightower Knee jerks defend Wall Street
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[OccupyTimesSquare] Veteran rants against police brutality [15-Oct11] (by KnewWorldNoing)
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