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Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight
between two extremely determined opponents. Occupy Wall Street has no
plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities.
Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti
Park and more than a dozen other "Occupy camps" around the nation would
end these protests, but that is just not going to happen. Whatever your
opinion of Occupy Wall Street is, everyone should be able to agree that
this is one dedicated bunch. They are absolutely obsessed with their
cause and in response to the recent raid on Zuccotti Park organizers are
calling for “
a national day of direct action”
on Thursday. But if Occupy Wall Street protesters want to take things
to "the next level", they should not underestimate the resolve of the
police state. Over the past decade, the homeland security apparatus of
the federal government has been slowly but surely turning this country
into a "Big Brother" police state. Today, our law enforcement
authorities are obsessed with watching us, listening to us, tracking us,
recording us, and gathering information on all of us. We are
constantly reminded that we live in a prison grid (just think about what
they do to you before you are allowed on an airplane) and they are not
about to put up with anyone challenging their authority or their
control. Have you even known parents that constantly feel the need to
prove that they are "the boss" of their children? Well, that is
essentially what the homeland security apparatus in this country has
become. All over the United States, law enforcement personnel are
taught that every American is a potential terrorist and they are
actually trained to "act tough", to bark orders at us and to not let
anyone question their authority. If Occupy Wall Street believes that it
can get the police state to "back down", they are sorely mistaken.
Hopefully everyone will cool off a bit as the temperatures go down this
winter. But if we do see a "cooling off", it probably will not last for
long. As the U.S. economy continues to get worse, these kinds of
protests are going to keep growing and they will become even more
intense. Eventually, mass civil unrest will cause the streets of many
of our major cities to closely resemble war zones. When it is all said
and done, this is not going to end well for any of us.
The stunning police raid of Zuccotti Park at 1 AM on Tuesday morning
made headlines around the world. Protesters were hauled off, tents were
cut down and garbage trucks hauled off the personal possessions of
those that had been encamped there. It was swift and it was brutal.
But it was just another in a long line of raids that we have seen
over the past couple of weeks. Occupy camps in Portland, Oakland,
Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta and several other cities have
also been raided.
There is an increasing body of evidence that these raids have been coordinated. For example, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan recently
made the following statement during a recent interview about the Occupy movement....
I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation
Does anyone want to guess who was running that conference call?
Heidi Bogosian, the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, is convinced that the recent raids were coordinated
at the federal level....
"We definitely feel, especially in a movement like
this that has arisen so quickly in a number of cities, that there will
be a coordinated national effort to try and shut it down"
Someone probably thought that cracking a few skulls and cutting up a few tents would probably make the hippies go away.
Yes, that might have worked in 1991.
But this is 2011. Whether you agree with Occupy Wall Street or not,
one thing that should be clear to all of us is that these boys and girls
are deadly serious.
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