Biggest Occupy Albany arrest yet Police poised to make largest number of arrests yet at Occupy Albany encampment Updated 12:44 p.m., Sunday, November 20, 2011 Amid chants of "Shame!" by demonstrators, State Police late Saturday made the largest group of arrests at the Occupy Albany site since the protest began Oct. 21.
"Warm up the bus," the protesters chanted as 48 of their colleagues were arrested, according to a news release issued by State Police early Sunday.
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Last night at NYC GA- it appeared it was OKd for a group of 20 at sum of 29K to go to EGYPT.... The reasoning given in the GA - was for monitoring upcoming election & to get "training" .
Later heard No, decision was not Okd it was tabled but now back to hearing it is a Go and a group of 20 is going to Egypt.IMO, huge possibly fatal mistake of OWS.
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"...But my concern arises from the fact that the villagers with the torches and the pitchforks have arrived at the gates of the wrong castle.
The monster you seek to slay is but the creation of the true perpetrators of the wanton destruction of the economy. Wall Street is Frankenstein's Monster, and it has indeed been let loose upon the land to trample everything in its path. But without access to cheap credit, the Wall Street Casino pit bosses could never have devised credit default swaps and other derivatives of mass destruction. No, they could not have caused this economic carnage alone. It was monetary and banking policy set by a higher source that fostered the environment for the incubation of the monster. As such, it serves little purpose to kill it as Dr. Frankenstein, the real villain in this story, will merely create a new beast if left unchecked.
Dr. Frankenstein, for the purpose of our analogy, is the Federal Reserve and it is the institution which must be shut down if any real reform is to begin. It is the central power in our country and through the tools at its disposal – the setting of interest rates and the expansion and contraction of the money supply – it can create not only recessions and depressions, booms and busts and income inequality, but ultimately the indentured servitude of the American people.
The Fed, from the moment it came into being, reintroduced to the U.S. a centuries-old fraud called fractional reserve banking which has served to addict the government and the general populace on a powerful narcotic of financial bubbles, debt, inflation and globalism...."
"The cop who used the pepper spray, reported to be Lt. John Pike, earns $110,000 a year–almost twice that of an experienced assistant professor at UC Davis."
Lieutenant John Pike 530-752-3989 japikeiii@ucdavis.edu
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They who wish to hurt you, work within the law. - Morrissey
"The cop who used the pepper spray, reported to be Lt. John Pike, earns $110,000 a year–almost twice that of an experienced assistant professor at UC Davis."
Oh, and by the way, for those that just scanned the news piece without reading for content, this:
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UC Davis professor Nathan Brown later gave a chilling account of what happened to the students: “When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats,” Brown said. “Several of these students were hospitalized.”
In a video taken from another direction, two officers can be seen dousing protesters with pepper spray at the same time. Though not visible in the videos, the operator of the Facebook page for the Occupy U.C. Davis organization claimed that one police officer “shoved a pepper spray gun down a student’s throat and pulled the trigger.” On Saturday afternoon, the Facebook page announced that protesters would be working with attorneys to pursue legal action.
This is the 'chilling' part that many press outlets are not connecting with the incident that the term refers to.
News released this afternoon indicating this officer and another have been placed on suspension by the University, the head of whom say's she accepts full responsibility for the incident.
Until the spotlight is off, then...... ?
UPDATE: Reports that the faculty and other staff of UC Davis are demanding the resignation of the Chancellor.
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If that's true about prying open mouths of students, there is a VERY special place in hell for that cop or cops. If he/they don't get fired I'll be very interested why not.
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I remember that the Black Panthers started to open carry shotguns - it still might be legal Cali and the police are certainly not doing anything to deescalate the problem - the top staff has to go.
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Cool, Grumpygirl, and my wife and I have been right (not) there with you. Prior years it was as a protest vs the disgusting commercialization of the holiday. Let's hope you're right and this year the concept will take on a new life.
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The protester who's mouth was pried open and receiving pepper spray down his throat has been identified as Willie Roberts. Appears it is verified incident.
This story is lead on tonight's MSM news feeds.
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This turd needs to FOAD.
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VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh Calls Veterans Protesting Wall Street Un-American | At a November 19 town hall meeting in Gurnee, Illinois, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) smeared Occupy Wall Street protesters as “generally spoiled, pampered, unfocused, clueless young people and a smattering of other people who don’t understand this country and are advocating anti-American solutions.” When asked by a subsequent questioner if his attack applied to “veterans who fought in foreign wars” who are part of the 99 Percent Movement, Walsh replied that they were advocating “socialist solutions” and that “they don’t understand this country.” Walsh later admitted that he’d never actually been to any of the protests. Watch it:
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That drum circle is the one in front of Bloomberg's residence. Supposed to be the '24 hour drum circle', slated to continue unabated until 2pm tomorrow.
Not just drums either, cooking pots, dishpans, cowbells, saxophone, just a whole lot of very LOUD concussion and music of all kinds!
Definately the kind of stuff deserving of a good beating until it stops. Oppss... looks like late posting, the police shut it down already. 'Make music get arrested'. In fairness tho, many 100's of residents in apartments directly adjacent to the protesters.
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"The Spinning Cyclone Of Deflation Is Fueled By Deficit Spending. An efficient asset destroying storm powered by the printing press". - Me
When the Nazi's broke every law when coming to power, people in later years were asked, how were they allowed to do it? The answer was easy: They Simply Did It.
At the end, TDS makes point that key OWS decisions are being made in the lobby of Deutsche Bank. CAN'T MAKE THIS **** UP!!
Friend regularly attending OWS at ZP reported back that this little report is spot on.
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." ~ John Adams
"The cop who used the pepper spray, reported to be Lt. John Pike, earns $110,000 a year–almost twice that of an experienced assistant professor at UC Davis."
It's gotten too big to hide behind the sofa pillow anymore. The ugly head is protruding and people are waking up from their sleep only to realize the nightmare is real.
The alternative banking group defies the traditional image of Occupy Wall Street. Many of its most committed participants come from the finance industry, including some bankers and traders from large Wall Street firms. It has been organised by Carne Ross, a diplomat and author of The Leaderless Revolution, and Cathy O’Neil, a quantitative financial analyst who has worked at D.E. Shaw, the hedge fund, and RiskMetrics, the consultancy. The group is drafting comments on implementation of the Volcker Rule limiting proprietary trading in large banks, and trying to invent a structure for a new kind of mutual bank. It could draw on credit unions and mutual organisations such as Mondragon, the Basque federation of worker co-operatives.
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Several hundred Occupy Wall Street protestors on Sunday evening were determined to continue a demonstration near Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Upper East Side home into Monday afternoon.
The "Occupy Bloomberg's Mansion Drum Circle Protest And Love-In Art Show" was originally planned to be held right outside the mayor's townhouse, but when demonstrators arrived around 2 p.m. Sunday, police had blocked access to 79th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.
The protesters took their musical instruments and colorful signs to the outskirts of Central Park, and while they played festive music, they said they had a serious message about Bloomberg limiting New Yorkers' rights.
"I'm actually a pretty staunch capitalist, but to be honest with you, when Bloomberg moved to have the police arrest all the Occupy Wall Street people, I was fed up, that's enough," said one protester holding an "Impeach Bloomberg" sign. "I mean, that should not be going on in the United States of America."
"Bloomberg is not respecting our First Amendment rights nor yours," said another protester. "He's blocking access to the press, arresting journalists."
"All New Yorkers have had the wool pulled over their eyes by Bloomberg and his billionaires for way too long," said a third protester.
Some Upper East Side residents were not pleased at the possibility of the boisterous demonstration lasting well into the night.
"All I can say about Mayor Bloomberg, good or bad, he's earned his own money. And that's what we don't know what these people have been doing, besides complaining," said a local. "And that's all I can say. We don't know enough about them. So they know how to say they don't like this, they don't like that, but what positive things have they added to the mix?"
By Sunday evening, no protesters had been arrested.
Meanwhile, some community leaders gathered Sunday at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the former campsite of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, to criticize how the city handled Tuesday's cleanup of the area.
State Senator Eric Adams and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel said the New York City Police Department violated its own policies by not issuing receipts to protestors after their property was taken away.
The pair said city officials violated a court order by cleaning out Zuccotti Park and should be penalized.
"The question becomes, should the Bloomberg administration be held in contempt of court for not following the judge's order?" said Siegel.
"If there are rules and regulations that are put in place that the occupation individuals must follow, then the City of New York must follow the same rules just as well," said Adams.
"I want to know why our First and Fourth Amendment rights, our rights to assemble, I want to know why these things are being violated openly. It's not fair," said Occupy Wall Street protester Aaron Black.
Adams and Siegel also demanded to know why several members of the media were arrested or otherwise prevented from entering the park.
The mayor's office said the property was not seized but abandoned in public space.
A City Hall spokesperson said protesters were given 45 minutes to take their belongings and that more than 500 items have been picked up from a Department of Sanitation garage on West 57th Street.
Protesters have until Tuesday to pick up their belongings from the garage
"This is a frozen zone, all right?" he said, using a term I'd never heard before. "Just like them, you have to leave the area. If you do not, you will be subject to arrest."
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