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SternSkipper -> RE: 32 Pictures From Occupy Wall Street Protests (10/4/2011 8:47:53 AM)
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If history is any guide, contingencies include infiltrators into the protest movement who will try to entrap supporters of Occupy Wall Street. This is such a common police and FBI tactic that it would take too long to list examples, but you might start with the compelling documentary, “Better This World.” It details how an FBI “informant” entrapped two young idealists from Texas into becoming prosecution targets, thus helping to portray all protesters at the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis as being “radicals.”
Best example I can think of is the one a dear friend (and another user here can back me up since he's 'sat by the campfire' and heard the same story. Back during the DC Peace March, my buddy was in SDS and had actually been given a 'security' function (primrily to keep protesters from going physical). He happened onto a bunch of guys who looked very much unlike the rest of the crowd throwing bottles or something at police cars and pointed them out to the DC cops. The cops put them in a cruiser and drove around the block. While still in sight, the police car stopped and let the thugs out and back into the crowd. Final analysis? The Vietnam war ended and the protest served it's purpose in the larger picture.
Bottom line? These protests are only the beginning. It's the TeaPussies who are playing make-believe with this ... and it's NOT because they aren't worried.
Pay careful attention when you use standard alliterations to words like fear... they start scraping the bottom with their epithets... like when they'll stoop almost all the way and then CHICKEN OUT when it comes to a racial slut that can't be explained away and squirmed out of.
Whatever, the truth is there and the rest of us get it. And this WILL result in changes to the system. But it's a process that's just beginning. I make no pretenses about that.
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