Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for!

[Peter Lemkin]

Three occupations wiped out by riiot police tonight - Tampa, Nashville and San Diego....seems to be coordinated at Federal level. In San Diego, they arrested the press person [credentialed] to stop the world from seeing. the MSM was AWOL. Lots of arrests and, as usual tents, sleeping bags and backpacks, etc. thrown away. If they ever come to a rich man's home, they arrest without doing any property damage - for the poor or protesters, all of your property is destroyed by police. It has happened to me in the USA several times. I've been both - rich and poor there and know it all too well.

[Ed Jewett]

....seems to be coordinated at Federal level.

I saw something yesterday .. I will post it if I see it again.. that indicates this is coming out of Napolitano's DHS. Interesting in light of F&F. But, as the point is made elsewhere & obvious to anyone who has examined the matter in depth for years, it comes out of the militarization of the domestic police forces throughout America, the arming of them with heavy tactical weaponry, which is a direct extension ... yes, the dots have been connected that well.. out of the LEAA efforts set up in the past by Meese for Reagan and which are entirely tied into to the birth & creation of FEMA and numerous related efforts, as well as the raft of enabling signing statements sitting in a drawer in the Oval Office, the COG thing to the extent is is tied in, along with the camps and the rest of the bidness involving mind control, torture and the like (the fringe elements).

This has been forecast and put in place for decades. The time has come.

[Ed Jewett]

Did Oakland Police Intentionally Shoot Marine Vet Scott Olsen In the Head?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog
Marine Veteran Was Peacefully Standing When Attacked by Police

The following photograph on videos show that Marine veteran Scott Olsen was peacefully standing at the Oakland protest when police fired a projectile at him:
Did Police Intend to Hit Olsen In the Head?

Here is a photo of the ammunition or projectiles which police shot at the Oakland protesters:

Karl Denninger argues that the police intended to hit Olsen in the head:

One ex-Marine a combat veteran took a rubber round in the head. He is in critical condition and may die. That was not a mistake; that was aimed fire and an intentional assassination. Sorry folks, that's facts from 50′ you don't "miss" and hit someone in the head with these things if you're shooting for the legs or other non-vital parts. He was shot in the head by someone who aimed for the head. Those projectiles arenot "non-lethal" and the bomb thrown by a cop at the people trying to come to his assistance after he fell wasn't tossed accidentally either.

The policemen firing seemed to be having a little too much fun:

A protester also says the police shot him with a rubber bullet when he helped carry Scott Olsen to safety after he had been injured:
The Oakland police violated their own rules (page 9), and some have argued that they would have violated the Geneva Convention against targeting wounded combatants or those attempting to render medical aid.
No wonder even Amnesty International has condemned the use of tear gas as well as the actions of Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland, who said the measures were justified because protesters threw rocks. Although the Obama administration and the Department of Justice has shown no interest in investigating.
Olsen Is an Extremely Hard-Working Network Engineer and a Decorated Veteran

Olsen is a decorated veteran, who was an extremely hard-working network engineer:

Scott Olsen, 24, joined the protests as he worked his day job as a network engineer and left his apartment each night to sleep alongside protesters in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., Keith Shannon said.

***Olsen, who is originally from Wisconsin, served two tours of duty in Iraq, makes a good living at a San Francisco software company and had a hillside apartment that overlooks San Francisco Bay.
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Each night, he would go out to the tent camps that have sprung up over the past month in cities as the movement spread to protest economic inequality and what they see as corporate greed.
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People at OPSWAT, the company where Olsen works, were devastated after learning of his injuries. They described him as a humble, quiet guy who worked hard over long hours.
"He's been a big piece of what we do here and our growth strategy, so obviously it's pretty devastating for us that he's in the shape he's in," said Jeff Garon, the company's director of marketing.
Olsen was awarded seven medals while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, which he left as a lance corporal in November 2009 after serving for four years.
He went on two tours in Iraq, one in 2006-2007 and another in 2008, where he worked as a data network specialist. He was awarded seven medals, including the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal, according to the Marine Corps.

Olsen's condition has been upgraded from critical to "fair", although neurologists say that he may require brain surgery.
Militarization of the Police is the Problem

Some are comparing police brutality towards the Occupy protesters to that used by Israeli forces against Palestinian protesters. Indeed, numerous heads of U.S. police departments have traveled to Israel for "anti-terrorism training", and received training from Israeli anti-terrorism experts who have traveled to the U.S. See this, this, this, this.
But whether or not Israeli influence on U.S. police forces is a problem, the increasing militarization of U.S. police departments is clearly the problem (

[Ed Jewett]

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[TD="colspan: 2"]I had the honor of talking with Cindy Sheehan tonight, recording an interview for her radio show, which I believe will air on Sunday. She made mention of the "police riot" -- as she aptly phrased it -- in Oakland Tuesday night, as a Democratic administration moved in with gas and other weapons of war to clear the streets of American citizens taking part in the Occupy movement.

Ms. Sheehan also noted the fact that the Occupy movement's terminology about "the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent elite" is not entirely accurate; far too many of the 99 percent are serving as willing tools of the 1 percent -- in the police forces, in the media, even in the general public, where you can always find plenty of people eagerly genuflecting to the high and mighty, even as they and their own families and communities sink deeper into the mire.

The Oakland debacle is a prime example of this, as cops -- putative public servants whose pay scales put them deep into the 99 percent -- waded into the Occupy citizens, breaking heads and driving away the very people trying to stand up for their interests.

The New York Times reports on one victim of these first strike-backs by our panicky overlords. And he is a most telling victim indeed: a military veteran, who had served two tours in the imperial war of aggression in Iraq, then turned against the War Machine and joined that stalwart band of humanity's patriots, the Iraq Veterans Against the War: (See original for links and video.)

Two veterans groups say that a protester who was badly wounded in Oakland on Tuesday night is a former marine who is now hospitalized with a fractured skull.

According to Iraq Veterans Against the War, the protester, Scott Olsen, is a member of their group who left the Marines in 2010, after serving two tours in Iraq. In a statement, the group's executive director Jose Vasquez, claimed that Mr. Olsen "sustained a skull fracture after being shot in the head with a police projectile while peacefully participating in an Occupy Oakland march," on Tuesday night. Mr. Vasquez added that Mr. Olsen, a systems network administrator in Daly, Calif. "is currently sedated at a local hospital awaiting examination by a neurosurgeon."

A series of bloody photographs that appear to show Mr. Olsen after he was wounded were posted on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center's site, Indybay.org. Those images show that Mr. Olsen was wearing a brown military shirt with his last name on the front. Jay Finneburgh, the photographer who shot the images of Mr. Olsen, wrote on Indybay: "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. He went down hard and did not get up. The bright light in the second shot is from a flash-bang grenade that went off a few feet from us. He looks like he might be a veteran. he was eventually taken to highland hospital." ....

We will see more, much more of this. You can smell the fear in the boardrooms (and in their bought-and-paid-for extensions, the government offices) around the world, as our mighty statesfolk flail at the global economic meltdown their own policies have unleashed -- with no other answer than to keep imposing "austerity" measures, one after another, destroying the societies they've feasted upon for so long. And has there even been such a gaggle of fourth-rate poltroons, of shallow, witless, gormless goobers as the leaders of the "developed" world these days? Sarkozy, Cameron, Merkel, Berlusconi, Obama ....? It's like the last tribal council on Easter Island. All they have left are lies, delusions -- and brutality.
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[Keith Millea]

I've come to the same conclusion.The man was targeted by some worthless cop.I saw video briefly showing Scott just standing there doing nothing,not even yelling, and then he's down.I also remember at the Boston takedown,the police went for the Veterans first.I guess some feel that these soldiers are unpatriotic,or some such BS.

I also notice that there is a CS gas grenade that was used.I don't know,but this must be a weaker version than what was used in the Army back in the 60's.I can tell you from experience,those protestors wouldn't be running around in that gas fog,they would be on hands and knees gasping for air,with every membrane flowing bodily juices profusely.Totally debilitating.......Don't try it!

This incident has a lot of Veterans really pissed off!

"I see this young man and I picture the men and women that stood beside me during my time in, and the men and women that stand in those places today. I know what (Olsen) went through to become a Marine, what he ate for breakfast most days and how long he was able to talk to his parents with his $10 phone card in a shack in Iraq. He is my brother." - Marine Jay C Gentile.

[Peter Lemkin]

Agents Provocateurs on the official OWS chat today were saying they saw Olsen reaching for a weapon in his pocket......same old, same old. [i.e police were defending themselves from armed and dangerous protestors. Another troll on at the same time said the protesters were pelting the police with rocks and bottles. Lies!]

Blumberg took away the two electic generators they had at NYC-OWS, leaving them without power to cook, heat, run computers, lights etc. The battle is engaged! :loo:

The fire dept declared them illegal - even though they had inspected them and seen them for 41 days! Same old, same old!

[Ed Jewett]

Aerial Footage Shows Tear Gas Canister Hitting Scott Olsen and Flashbang Grenade Breaking Up People Attempting to Rescue Him

Posted on October 28, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog

Aerial Footage Shows Tear Gas Canister Hitting Scott Olsen and Flashbang Grenade Breaking Up Rescue Attempt

The following aerial footage of the Oakland protests shows Marine veteran Scott Olsen being hit in the head with what appears to be a tear gas canister (approximately 1:40), and a group of protesters trying to rescue him being dispersed by a flashbang grenade (around 1:52): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEmWIMKo...r_embedded

I showed the video to former NASA photo analyst Michael Rivero, to see if he thought the low trajectory of the tear gas canister fired at Olsen shows that the attack was intentional. Rivero is an imaging expert with experience with NASA probes, and so is expert at assessing height, angle and object size from photos taken from various distances and at different angles.
Rivero told me:

I agree the low angle indicates the shot was aimed at Scott.
This is a favorite trick of the Israelis to kill people while pretending it was an accident.

For background on the use of tear gas in Israel, see this.
Note: We at Washington's Blog are in no way anti-police or anti-Israel. We support the troops and the police, although we demand that they follow the rule of law and the Geneva Conventions and rules of war, and respect the right of their citizens to free speech and free assembly. We are simply against the use of brutality or unjustified violence by police or military … anywhere in the world, whether in the West, the Middle East, China or elsewhere.

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[Peter Lemkin]

It wouldn't surprise me if they aimed at Olsen's head. That provocateur yesterday was kind of a 'pro' type trying to reverse the spin [from truth to lie and reverse the culpability].

One small victory - in Nashville the Police arrested man [forget number, I think 50-60] and then went to a Judge to have him sign the arrest warrants. Much to my surprise and delight the Judge refused to sign any of them, claiming there were no legal grounds for the arrests! The much embarrassed police had to let them all go! It turns out it was the Governor of Tenn. that order the arrests. A poll in the largest paper in Nashville showed that over 75% of the citizens who answered the poll thought the Governor had exceeded his authority and improperly used his powers. Small victory for the People - as with Albany Police Chief.

Olsen is expected to make a full recovery. Will take time. Today he undergoes second operation to reduce pressure on brain. He is said to be very articulate and a very calm person and speaker. He will make an unusually effective speaker, if he so chooses - given what happened to him!

In San Diego they also arrested the only camera livestreaming the events [they did so in Nashville too]. Yesterday at daylight blood was found in pools near the arrests and police immediately claimed it was from police, not demonstrators - given the videos, this is all but impossible unless some policeman was having nosebleeds or their period! To add insanity to this attempt to repaint the events, they tested the blood forensically [sic] AFTER powerwashing the area! :flypig:

[Peter Lemkin]

Kucinich writes good letter of support to OWSers! http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/from-de...ich-occupy

[Peter Lemkin]

Austin, TX arrests and arrests in Seattle and Denver in last day. Denver quite violent, but that is new HQ of HS, so now surprise [I suspect they are coordinating all attempts to shut all down]. In Seattle within minutes of the last arrested being driven away, those watching RE-occupied same exact location! :p

For the most part, the foreign locations are doing better in all ways than the USA ones. [tents allowed, few arrests - if any, better dialogue with community, etc.] Some US locations are doing well, others are not. Winter will be very tough [as the police] in all but the warmer parts of USA for next months! Chat rooms and occupations clearly have their infiltrators.