DHS officials shared and coordinated strategies (crackdown to evict Occupy protests)

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Tymotka Zołnierz ‏@firstnightfree 7m

#FOIA requests of #DHS reveal a burgeoining "secret political police" deadset on crushing dissent #OWS
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/new-documents-reveal-dhs.html …

The first trove of FBI documents obtained by the PCJF in December 2012 exposed that the FBI treated the Occupy movement, even before the first tent went up in lower Manhattan, as a potential criminal and terrorist threat in spite of the fact that the FBI acknowledged that the OWS organizers explicitly called for peaceful protests.

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In preparation for planned protests in New York City on October 15, 2011, the DHS documents show coordination between federal and local authorities to use New York City’s permitting scheme to frustrate, obstruct or stop free speech activities.

In the case of the New York City protest, the documents reveal how even the most elementary exercise for conducting a lawful protest activity was the subject of information sharing and cooperation between federal and local law enforcement agencies. This was the case when the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement sought a permit for a march with the purpose, as the DHS states, “to recognize the African slaves used to build Wall Street.” DHS reports on how the NYPD denied the sound permit for the planned activity and how the permit application was “kicked back and forth by the City, GSA and NPS. …” (p. 35)

As the federal and local governments and law enforcement agencies engaged in a concerted, coordinated crackdown to evict Occupy protests from public spaces in the last months of 2011, DHS officials shared and coordinated strategies. For instance, the DHS District Commander in Detroit directly communicated with a law enforcement official who was “tasked with coming up with an exit strategy for us." After writing that he had heard in the news that encampments were "broken up in California and Georgia," the DHS District Commander continued, "What is the plan for the Occupy Detroit group in Grand Circus Park? I have been reporting daily and sending it up.” (p. 115)

(More at the link. Sorry, not staying around after this. Had to post but I'm OUT.)

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DHS Spy Files on the Occupy Movement Part 2

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2013/04/dhs-spy-files-on-occupy-movement-part-2.html

Choice quotes and indications of deep spying and co-ordination with police including during evictions.