Oakland re-attacked by Police (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, RT.com, Global Grind,

(RT) Nov. 14, 2011 - The City of Oakland paid for 1,000 paramilitary troops in this planned take down. Now police in occupied Oakland have cleared out a re-formed occupation after threatening Occupy demonstrators with more heavy handed violence.

Oakland PD and agents from other San Francisco Bay Area cities encircled the downtown encampment before dawn and moved in at about 6:00 am. They escorted handcuffed protesters away soon afterward to be imprisoned, strip searched, humiliated, and potentially violated further.

• Eyewitness: Occupy Oakland raided again
• Storm Troopers hit one Oakland camp, leave other
  
• Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall St.

The police state action comes a day after police attacked hundreds of Occupy Wall Street-style demonstrators from encampments in Portland, Oregon arresting more than 50 people. Oakland officials insisted on an end to their city's encampment using the pretext that a man was fatally shot Thursday near the camp.

Scott Olsen regains (free) speech

War veteran/peace activist Scott Olsen releases statement

Berkeley (Occupy Cal), St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Eureka, Denver, Albany (NY), Riverside, Portland, and other camps have been attacked as part of an organized suppression campaign.

• PHOTOS: Can police end occupations and save Wall St.?
• PHOTOS: Occupy Oakland and Wall Street solidarity
• VIDEO: Crackdown on UC Berkeley student protest
• Keystone Tar Sands: Ring Around the Rose Garden
  

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(Theendofpoverty.com)

• Police clear Occupy Oakland tent city

  (San Jose Mercury News) Police cleared Occupy Oakland early Monday in what has so far been a peaceful raid. Hundreds of protesters gathered at... More
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• Capitalism versus the climate
• Racism in the Occupy Movement?
• Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have been catching flak for being so "white." Occupy Atlanta is no exception, getting off to a rough start...when a civil rights movement hero-turned-Congressman stopped by to offer his support, only to be waved off by the mostly white G.A.

Occupy Portland in standoff with riot police

Police State actions at Occupy Portland (CNN)

PORTLAND, Oregon -- For several hours Sunday afternoon, [armed and extremely dangerous] Portland police officers in riot gear were lined up along Main Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, in front of a group of Occupy Portland protesters defying repeated orders to leave. A crowd grew for hours in the street near the park that was made up of protesters, reporters, photographers, and onlookers. Some sat down for a time; a tent was brought toward the front line for a time and later removed. KGW reported that Salem police were brought to the scene to assist Portland police, amid protest signs, the V peace symbol and some people wearing gas masks. Chants included the familiar "The whole world is watching," as well as ones like "There's no riot here -- put away your riot gear." More

Better to light even a single candle than to curse the darkness.

• Protesters arrested as police clear Occupy camps (CIA/CNN)
• At CIA the glass ceiling shows its cracks
• Liberals lusting after Pentagon's "pot of gold"?
• Police State Training: Penn State loses to Cornhuskers
• Bachmann: CIA interrogation is lacking
• (CNN) During Saturdayt's Republican candidates' debate on national security issues, Tea Party presidential candidate Rep. Bachmann (MN) said the US has nowhere to take terrorists for interrogation and said the CIA does not interrogate anymore. The statement: "When we interdict a terrorist on the battlefield, we have no jail for them. We have nowhere to take them. We have no CIA interrogation anymore," Bachmann said. [Let's give the CIA back its secret prisons, "enhanced" torture techniques, and as much money as it wants to spends -- she seems to be saying.
• VIDEO: Destroying Occupy Movement by YouTube

No, on second thought, get the h*ll out of here! No right to
peaceably assemble and petition for a redress of grievances.

Police attempt to murder Iraq War Vet (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

Using threats and force to press for a triumph of will over others is a police state tactic once called "fascism" and now called special weapons and tactics (SWAT) operations.

(Russia Today) Eyewitnesses in Oakland have put up footage of the police's violent tactics against activists. Here is one of the latest videos of the incident referred to in Marina Portnaya's report. An Iraq War veteran was injured.

Marine veteran Scott Olsen is seen lying on the ground after being shot in the head by a police officer wielding a tear gas canister propeller, fracturing Olsen's skull and swelling his brain. When a group of activists run to his aid, a policeman deliberately takes aim at the protesters, misusing a "non-lethal" weapon in an illegally deadly fashion with complete immunity. Police then lob a flash bomb at the group to prevent them from aiding Olsen. It goes off immediately, terrorizing the unarmed civilians being subjected to indiscriminate deadly force.

• Police wounding Vet stirs new wave of dissent (The Nation)
• Vietnam Vets were treated the same way in the past
  

(CelebDelaCreamTv)

"Veterans for Peace" member Scott Olsen was critically wounded by Oakland Police who are believed to have been joined by 15 other government agencies. Together they fired on unarmed American citizens. When the government uses violence to suppress its people it is a form of fascism.

In New York near Wall Street police brutality is encouraged.

• Hurt protester Scott Olsen was "provoking no one"‎ (SFC)
• Oakland PD under cloud for violent crackdown‎ (Mother Jones)
• US protesters call for strike against Oakland (Reuters)
• Marine Down in Oakland‎ (Counter Punch)
• All Eyes on Oakland: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail‎ (Huff Po)
• Occupy protesters arrested in two cities‎ (CNN/CIA)

Occupy San Diego attacked by police (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Occupy San Diego

"Hey you filthy hippie punk, don't you come near my barricade!"

Wisdom Quarterly neglected to organize Occupation Meditations at Occupy San Diego, our great neighbor to the south. It may not have prevented the onslaught of police state tactics, but it could only have helped. The Raiders of Oakland organized their paramilitary forces and in scenes reminiscent of Nineteen Eighty-Four came like thieves in the night and stole camping supplies and herded occupiers away to jail. "I've been dehumanized by the city/I've been Americanized by the pity," an old punk song once rang out.

Police storm Occupy Oakland (video)

Marcus Wohlsen (AP), Huffington Post, Wisdom Quarterly, Occupy Oakland

Paramilitary tactics on a peaceful civilian demonstration? It's what US police have been waiting to unpack as they take us from Brave New World Order to Orwellian nightmare.

OAKLAND, Northern California - Shock and awe. Police in full riot gear with tear gas and three helicopters overhead cleared anti-Wall Street Occupy Oakland protesters this morning (Oct. 25) from the plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall where they have been camped out for about two weeks. TV news footage shows numerous people in plastic handcuffs being led away from the site by police around after the 5:00 am raid. The protesters did not appear to be resisting, although an officer did fire a [potentially deadly] non-lethal projectile from a shotgun at a protester who lobbed a bottle, authorities told the San Francisco Chronicle. More

• Occupy Together
• Occupy Berkeley: End the Monied Corruption of Democracy
• Occupy San Jose
  
• Occupy San Francisco
• Occupying the Message (Right-wing style)

This morning at 5:00 am over 500 police in riot gear from cities all over central California brutally attacked the Occupy Oakland encampment at the intersection of 14th & Broadway. Riot police attacked the peaceful protest with flash grenades, tear gas, and [deadly canon style] rubber bullets after moving in with armored vehicles. Apparently, the media was not allowed in to document this repression, and one was warned or allowed to leave. Police established barricades as far apart as 11th and 17th. Over 70 people were arrested, and the camping gear was destroyed and/or stolen by riot police. Contact the mayor and tell her what you think of her actions.

• Reconvene today (Tuesday, Oct. 25) at 4:00 pm at the Oakland Library on 14th & Madison.
• We're not finished. We have only begun.
• We will be protesting this planned atrocity at the next City Council meeting.

• Riot police occupy Oakland, evict protesters (CBS)

Wall Street: "Sleep Now in the Fire" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Democracy Now!, Michael Moore, Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine once hired Michael Moore to produce their video for the song "Sleep Now in the Fire" eleven years ago. They chose Wall Street, shutting the stock exchange in the process as police overreacted to a music video.

Moore was arrested while everyone else ran away. But the story lives on because just today, he was banned from filming a news piece for a cable news agency. Apparently, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) now owns the street outside the exchange and determines who can be interviewed on the street.

Moore was interviewed on Democracy Now! this morning recounting the story to Amy Goodman. While he could have gone down to Occupy Wall Street a block or two away, Moore said he was going to Wall St. whether or not the news crew was coming. More than a decade later, one sign in this video says it all: "I CAN'T BELIEVE WE STILL HAVE TO PROTEST THIS CR*P."

Plaza renamed for man murdered by BART police

• Occupy Oakland [brutally] raided by police
  

Veteran: "There is no honor in this" (Occupy)

A Marine at Occupy Wall Street tells NYPD "There is no honor in beating unarmed citizens."

• CostOfWar.com
  
• OccupyWallStreet.org
• OccupyTogether.org
• Global reaction to killing Kaddafi
  

Mainstream News: "Police are troublemakers"

Wisdom Quarterly

(bYarlboro)

MSNBC is a corporate outlet. It purports to represent the "liberal" side as a ridiculous counterpart to Fox News' "conservative" extremes. It is part and parcel of the mainstream media.

This piece is important only because it is mainstream coverage of the protests. It is surprising that the powers that be allow MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnel to go this far in getting at the truth.

• Livestream.com/globalrevolution
  

This may seem an insignificant report compared to all the video out there and all the injustice (most police crimes are not videotaped). But this is where reform starts.

The protests are filled with individuals who will no longer condone how corrupt our government, banks, military-industrial complex, and other corporate bodies have become. The Fed (The Federal Reserve Bank, Inc.), which is a private bank serving its own interests not the government's, is the lynchpin.

It is not the only corrupt body on Wall Street. The other private banks use it to rob the country blind with political help and blessings.

Many protesters have additional messages to be heard. There are many injustices, many causes, many routes to freedom. Most American only know that they are unhappy and in danger. Most of us want to create a better world, better society, better states.

In the beginning there was a mainstream media blackout on the Occupy Movement. Long before that the corruption of the Fed was avoided. The bailouts, the political maneuvering by Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I is what we want to bring to light.

The Fed has handed out over $16 trillion ($2 trillion more than the national debt that took over two centuries to rack up) to private banks and corporations in the past four years. As suffering people not given a voice have increasingly "acted out," the military-industrial complex has funded a police state. We are spied on, and the constitutional protects and civil rights have been disregarded, rewritten, or simply violated.

• A "trillion" is a thousand billion, a billion is thousand million.
• A million seconds is about 12 days, but...
  
• A trillion seconds is 32 thousand years.
  

But none of this was addressed by the mainstream media because that media is owned by the very corporations it fails to report on. The people did not elect the news staffs or editors, the oil ("energy") corporations or executives, the PR firms, nor were they approved of by the people.

These are red flags! Even "reputable" links prove what is being said. No special interpretation is necessary. Let us all make sure the current protests make these secrets known.

• Forbes article on the $16 trillion bailout
• Unelected.orgs reporting on the $16 trillion
• Senator Bernie Sanders report on the $16 trillion
• GAO report on how funds were allocated (p. 131)
• The full GAO (Gov't Accounting Office) report

Bank (economic) crimes lead to unthinkable war (military) crimes. Because of poverty, brought on by corporate greed, members of society turn on themselves then turn on others in the greater world. We, the USA, are the empire to fear. Before long another empire will ascend. Just as we make others suffer, so we will suffer. Of course, only some of us are doing it. Therefore, it is the job of the rest of us to stop it. People (whistle blowers) defect from being part of the problem to contributing to the solution. Meanwhile, others (the media) deny there is any problem at all.

Rioting is exactly what Police want (DK "Riot")

Wisdom Quarterly

(Chastrie) Police riot (provoking by strategy, brutality, and with undercover provocateurs) because they can't beat peace. All they need is an excuse. Rioting is what they train for with the help of consultants, lawyers, the FBI, and PR firms. Police want rioting.

"Riot" (Dead Kennedys)
Rioting, the unbeatable high
Adrenaline shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it's all gonna blow right now

Now you can smash all the windows that you want
All you really need are some friends and a rock
Throwing a brick never felt so [darn] good
Smash more glass
Scream with a laugh
And wallow with the crowds
Watch them kicking peoples' ass

But you get to the place
Where the real slave drivers live
It's walled off by the riot squad
Aiming guns right at your head

So you turn right around
And play right into their hands

And set your own neighborhood
Burning to the ground instead

Riot: the unbeatable high
Riot: shoots your nerves to the sky
Riot: playing into their hands
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast!

Get your kicks in quick
They're callin' the National Guard
Now could be your only chance
To torch a police car

Climb the roof, kick the siren in
And jump and yelp for joy
Quickly, dive back in the crowd
Slip away, now don't get caught

Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store
Grab as much as you can hold
Pray your full arms don't fall off
Here comes the owner with a gun

CHORUS

The barricades spring up from nowhere
Cops in helmets line the lines
Shotguns prod into your bellies
The trigger fingers want an excuse, NOW

The raging mob has lost its nerve
There's more of us but who goes first
No one dares to cross the line
The cops know that they've won

It's all over but not quite
The p[olice] have just begun to fight
They club your heads, kick your teeth
Police can riot all that they please

CHORUS

Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

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• Only through direct action will change come
• LIVESTREAM: Global Peaceful Revolution
  

All the "change" we got

Occupy Berkeley in the Sixties (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Occupy Boston, Occupy Los Angeles, AlJazeera.net, Occupy Wall Street

Joined by labor unions, protesters march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park, NY (Reuters/AlJazeera).

UC Berkeley was occupied giving rise to a generation of activists (Criticalthinking007)

"You will respect my authoritay!" is the police mantra chanted around the country. Teachers, unions, professionals can all join students, activists, and elderly demonstrators. The mantra is the same. As now, so in the 1960s. Then it was illegal wars, racism, and a lack of civil rights for all. Today the issues are far more pressing -- a matter of survival. Having enough to eat as bankers give a new spin to the ancient "Let them eat cake" utterance that preceded the French Revolution commemorated by Bastille Day. Wall Street onlookers from on high giggle "Let them sip champagne."

• College students, nurses join Occupy Boston
  
• Occupy Wall Street: Los Angeles Branch
• Occupy Washington DC starts tomorrow
  

"People over Profits" as transport unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstration.

Power to the People
AlJazeera.net
A diverse group of powerful unions has joined demonstrations in New York's financial district, lending some focus, credibility and potentially hundreds of participants to a movement that began with a few university students.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protest movement, which began three weeks ago in New York's financial hub, was joined on Wednesday by a dozen US labor unions.

Among those who joined the clamor were members of the Chinatown Tenants Union and the Transit Workers Union, the liberal group MoveOn.org, [CodePink,] and community organizations such as the Working Families Party and United NY. More

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Dog mauls Cat (graphic video)

CC Liu, Amber Dorrian, PFC Sandoval, Allen Weiss (Wisdom Quarterly)

Unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstrators today. Will the dogs behave? (krittersthattwitter.com)

Should a Cat Strike Back?
Just as in the animal plane, so in the human. Dogs tear at cats, aggressors at pacifists, fear against peace. Fear is a form of hate. So love and peace must be demolished, batons against flowers. There is an ancient Indian sentiment about how the peaceful, beautiful flower" people respond to forces dressed in black hoping to provoke "rioting" to justify cracking and instituting Marshall law:

Just as the sandalwood tree sprinkles
Perfume on the very axe that lays it low
So the good/wise person showers with
Love even those who approach as foes.

"Poetic justice" is not justice. Police use these incidents to justify preemptive brutality. There are a great many back up troops to conduct mass attacks in an unending bouts of retaliation.

In the movie "Berkeley in the Sixties," many students talk about how police coralled them, blocking from leaving campus after a sit in/speech. A military helicopter was getting into position to tear gas them. It did as the riot police laughed, swung batons, and arrested anyone still standing. Business as usual.

Police train to corral peaceful demonstrators. Now they are "illegally" assembled. And it is time to round them up. It just happened in the arrest of 700 peaceful activists led onto then trapped on the Brooklyn bridge -- misguiding them into actions they can be arrested, shot, brutalized, or maced over. It is no accident, no crossed signals, no error. This is how they are drilled in from covert training manuals. The CIA has its own Anarchist's Cookbook. They want activists to break the law to counter it with draconian tactics, torture, brutality, and a militaristic mentality.

The US illegally invaded Buddhist countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) in covert wars. American college students stood up. Massacres of students by the police that provoke rather than pacify them is exactly what "peace" officers train and hope for.

Purging the Police (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

“Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Ben Franklin (stevequayle.com / infowars/prison planet)

The police and paramilitary personnel will be the second to go when the purge comes. First they will be used to terrify, violate, arrest, and kill "undesirables" as defined by the military-industrial complex establishing a new "world order." It sounds Orwellian, and it is coming from the mouths of libertarians not liberals. Why would the state (NSA, CIA, TSA, White House, NSC, FBI, Homeland Security) and, moreover, the Shadow Government (NorthCom, higher level Pentagon, DUMBs) kill police after using them to implement plans against a resisting population? Why would they kill them before? They are needed to do the dirty work of betraying civilians before they get hung out to dry by those giving them orders.

Police State III

• The Unexamined Orwell [1984]
• Yes, it is a police state
• Tell me what a police state looks like
  
• Orwellian language of NHS "reform"
• NORTHCOM plans 5-day Martial Law exercise
  
• Napolitano dismisses report over "Orwellian...Big Sis" view

London Falling (rioters respond to police abuse)

Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Explicit lyrics ("Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine)

• Wave of violent rebellion rages across London
• US Police execute Katrina victims (Reuters)
• New Orleans police convicted in Katrina killings (CNN)
  
  

The number of UK police, whose abuse brought on the rioting, is tripled to deal with the country's worst unrest since the 1980s, adding gasoline to the fire. More



Meanwhile, in the US, Orange County begins to brew.



Protect and Serve (Themselves)

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Good thing our police do not abuse us in America. Our officers may be racist, sexist, and poorly educated, but they would never harm the most vulnerable members of our affluent society. Oh wait, unless such members are mentally disabled and helpless. Police can break laws, commit felonies on a routine basis, murder, execute, assault, and rape -- all under "color of law"?



But if abuse were ever the answer, the police would be right. And rioters should join the police force. The answer to all questions is compassion.



The wrongs police do are doubly wrong because they are done under color of law. A criminal act of mayhem is more reprehensible when six "officers" beat and electrocute a homeless and disabled man than when two sports fans beat a rival fan. The police were not satisfied to beat the face, Taser, and torment their victim; they thought it would be a good idea to kill him and then lie about it on official reports (a serious crime unto itself). But all of Los Angeles was in an uproar to find the assailant in the horrible Dodger Stadium beating. Now the same sort of crime that has sparked England, which twice before set off mass rioting in Los Angeles (most recently due to the abuse of Rodney King), threatens Southern California again.



It's good to "know your enemy." Most Americans watching riot footage on TV mistakenly assume that police protect citizens. The fact is they criminally abuse some of them.



But where will peace of mind and a serene heart be found? In a war zone? On the streets? During a riot? These things are of course found within and nowhere else. Paramilitary police forces cannot take them away even if they concentrate us in FEMA camps.



Having returned from the horrors of Afghanistan and Iraq, where do most soldiers want to show off their savage training? In police agencies around the country. It's the new world order -- force fighting force until nothing but force consumes the country.

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• PHOTOS: Images of the UK violence
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• [CIA's] social media used to spread Britain's riots
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• Fresh rioting touched off northwest England
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• Kenya burdened by famine refugees; Rape attacks up
• British police face public anger as riots rage
• 4 police officers found slain in western Mexico
• Germany at center of storm as stockmarkets dive

"Bulls on Parade" (RATM)

China cracks down on rioting migrants

China tries to restore order after migrant riots

BEIJING (LA Times) - Chinese authorities struggled to restore order Monday after migrant workers, angry over the manhandling of a pregnant vendor, overturned police cars, smashed windows, and set fires near the southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou.

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