In August 2009,
the corporate-organized FreedomWorks/Koch “Tea Party” group within the
Republican Party bused its adherents to riots they organized against Democratic
members of the U.S. House of Representatives who were trying to hold
informational town hall events in order to discuss with constituents emerging
healthcare legislation.
However, there
was no FBI surveillance of those corporate-organized disruptions of legitimate
democratic processes.
There also were
no subsequent FreedomWorks applications for Freedom of Information Act releases
of FBI files regarding such surveillance being used against them - because there
was no such FBI campaign against them.
When the
grassroots Occupy Wall Street movement organized their peaceful demonstrations
against banksters in September 2011, on the other hand, there was massive FBI
surveillance used against them.
On 22 August
2011 - over a month prior to the first such demonstration on September 17th -
the FBI sent to its NYC field office a memo marked “Routine,” which summarized a
“meeting” that had been held with “New York Stock Exchange/Euronext (NYSE),”
which had “Discussed ... the planned anarchist protest titled ‘Occupy Wall
Street’, scheduled for September 17.”
Get that word
“anarchist.” It’s not friendly. And the FBI had already organized for these Wall
Street executives; this meeting had itself been organized even prior to this 22
August 2011 memo, not just prior to September 17th.
This interesting
information was reluctantly extracted from Obama’s “Justice” Department, when
its FBI finally mailed a requested file of massively redacted information
regarding the FBI’s extensive snooping against the nationwide Occupy Wall Street
movement to the nonprofit Partnership for Civil Justice Fund on 20 December
2012.
The FBI was
organizing against the OWS movement even before it was known to the general
public, and they kept on their campaign against it, until it was
dead.
Meanwhile, the
Tea Party Republicans eliminated the public option from Obamacare, and continued
to hold hostage the entire nation in order to extend George W. Bush’s tax-cuts
for the top 1% - and also in order to cut government benefits to everybody else:
to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
The public must
suffer, while banksters continue to boom - that’s government, under Barack Obama
and his “Justice” Department. This is our “democracy.” This is today’s
America.
OWS ended just a
few months after it began, on 14 November 2011. That was when Robert Johnson and
Linette Lopez of businessinsider.com headlined “This Weekend’s Occupy Crackdowns
May Be The Beginning Of The End For Protest Groups.”
The very next
day, the same reporters bannered “This Week’s Occupy Evictions Were
Systematically Plotted By The Nation’s Mayors.” They quoted Oakland Mayor Jean
Quan admitting to a reporter from the BBC, “I was recently on a conference call
with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation where what started
as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment
that was no longer in control of the people who started them.”
She said there
that the 18 mayors simply wanted to help “peaceful demonstrators” to “separate
themselves from anarchists” - as if this nationwide crackdown against OWS had
been done in order to help “peaceful demonstrators,” instead of to help the
banksters whose still-unprosecuted frauds against unqualified mortgagees and
against trusting mortgage-investors had brought down the American (and largely
the world’s) economy, in late 2008.
The BBC did not
post online, nor otherwise publish, Mayor Quan’s startling admission to them.
Instead, they simply handed off their audio of it, to “The Takeaway” program of
WNYC - a radio station that’s controlled by NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg of
Wall Street - which promptly buried it, in passing, during their show that day.
(As Johnson and Lopez noted, “they [WNYC] have a partnership with the BBC.”)
This is how one aristocracy deals with another.
The only
comprehensive news report on the systematic nationwide crushing of OWS ended up
being posted on the World Socialist Web Site, which headlined on 17 November
2011, “Mayors Conspired to Close Occupy Wall Street Encampments,” and which
quoted from (but unfortunately did not link to) numerous reports from around the
country. Taken all together, these reports exhibited the effectiveness of the
FBI’s police-state snooping and tracking of Occupy Wall Street, which had begun
even before most Americans knew that there was any such movement for the FBI to
snoop against.
In other words,
the reason why Barack Obama’s “Justice” Department refuses to prosecute even a
single one of the mega-bank executives who profited so enormously from having
defrauded both mortgagees and the investors in mortgage-backed securities, and
who were bailed out by future U.S. taxpayers whose government purchased those
remaining “toxic assets” at 100 cents on the dollar, is clear: we live in a
police state, and these elite crooks control it. This is not real
democracy.
Voters were
given a choice in November between a President like that but whose liberal
rhetoric is condemnatory of “Wall Street,” versus a professional stripper of
corporations, whose rhetoric was overtly supportive of Wall Street. And voters
chose the former. But this nonetheless is a police state, not an authentic
democracy.
I can only cross
my fingers and hope that this will be published. After all, there are opposing
factions, even within the aristocracy that collectively control this
country.
AHT/HJ
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