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Showing posts with label Provocateurs and Police Infiltrators. Show all posts
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Editors note: Very important interview detailing the disintegration of a peaceful Egyptian revolution into a bloody confrontation. This is a slippery road the Occupy movement could easily go down, we're witnessing the same kind of police brutality that appears to be a tool authorities are using to escalate the violence here in America. Intimidating reporters, censorship and media repression aren't isolated to foreign countries, journalists in New York city have been arrested, beaten and had film confiscated while covering Occupy protest events. There's a striking difference in coverage of Occupy Wall St from the mass media and alternative news outlets, with mass media it's one big race towards the bottom of the barrel. It's absolutely shameful how the lack of honest, real information will ultimately be the downfall of America if people don't wake up soon. What's unfolding in Egypt is horrifying, we're fast approaching an Orwellian end game scenario where turning the clock back will be next to impossible.... To help people awaken story's like this must be heard by the masses so people understand the truth about what's happening over there, because it's a matter of time before it comes to the US. Mona Eltaway's courage and composure in the aftermath of such physical and psychological trauma, terror and brutality is absolutely incredible.
Egyptian-American journalist, Mona Eltahawy, was detained for 12 hours by Egypt’s security forces last Wednesday near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, during which time she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted. She has just returned from Cairo and joins us in our studio. “So many people in Tahrir Square came up to me and would kiss my forehead, they would give me a hug and they would say, ’We’re not going to let them get away.’ They would say, ’We’re going to snatch Egypt back from them.’ I’ve come back with so many messages of love and support from Tahrir. I feel like Tahrir’s spirit is going to help my arms heal even quicker. This is for Egypt. People have lost eyes. People have been killed, people have lost loved ones,” says Eltahawy. “What happened to me is minuscule compared to that. I have a voice in the media — they don’t. So I want to use that voice to get across to the world that our revolution continues.” Today Egypt held its first round of parliamentary elections to elect a new, post-Mubarak government in the wake of fierce clashes between protesters and police that lasted for nine days and left at least 42 people dead and more than 3,000 wounded across the country.
They must really think we're stupid, watch the video Bloomberg presents to the press. These people are insane, they're psychopaths that's the only way to explain what's going on here.
Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:54 CST
So a 'lone wolf' 'home-grown terrorist' has been apprehended, in the nick of time, by the FBI and NYC cops. Or so the story goes. The problem is, we've heard this one before, many times. Jose Pimentel, like so many others alleged 'jihadis' before him, is undoubtedly the victim of yet another FBI sting operation rather than a dangerous terrorist. FBI sting operation? "What's that?" I hear you ask. Well, in case you've fallen victim to the 10-year-long 'war on terror' government and media mind-job, allow me to explain, or rather, allow me to point you to some fairly reliable sources.
Trevor Aaronson is a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In August 2011, Aaronson published the results of his investigation into how the FBI runs a network of informants in Muslim communities in the USA. Aaronson's mulltimedia investigation, which includes an 8,000-word cover story and the first and only publicly searchable, online, interactive database of more than 500 federal terrorism prosecutions since 9/11, is aptly titled "The Informants". Among the investigation's key findings:
- The FBI has 15,000 registered informants, many of them keeping watch on Muslim communities. Today, the FBI has nearly three times as many informants as it had 25 years ago.
- Of more than 500 federal terrorism prosecutions since 9/11, nearly half involved the use of an informant - many of them motivated by money or the need to work off criminal or immigration violations.
- Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, 49 defendants participated in plots led by an "agent provocateur" - an aggressive FBI operative who provoked the targets into committing their alleged terrorist acts.
- The FBI often uses the threat of deportation, as well as other forms of leverage, to win cooperation from informants.
The report reveals that in many of the stings, important meetings between informants and the unknowing participants are left purposely unrecorded, so as to avoid any entrapment charges that could cause the case to be dismissed.
Martin Stolar, who represented a suspect involved in a New York City bombing plot which was set-up by FBI agents, said that:
"The problem with the cases we're talking about is that defendants would not have done anything if not kicked in the ass by government agents; they're creating crimes to solve crimes so they can claim a victory in the war on terror."
But there's another obvious question here, which is, what is the difference between an FBI informant and a 'lone wolf terrorist'? The answer is, nothing. The 'lone wolf' is simply the informant's informant and is being manipulated by him (on behalf of the FBI and usually with money), in exactly the same way as the first informant. The only real difference is in the propaganda potential. The first informant remains unknown, the second is the patsy, dragged out at the appointed or appropriate time to pose as the 'lone wolf terrorist' du jour to serve the agenda of the psychopathic terror masterminds in the CIA, Mossad, MI5/6 etc.
So, I think we can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that the timing of Pimentel's apprehension is cynical in the extreme. After all, the FBI had been grooming him for over two years via informants who posed as fellow 'jihadis'. Equally cynical was Bloomberg's use of a short and sweet pipe-bomb detonation video at his press conference:
Note that Bloomberg says that the police had to "construct a duplicate of an explosive device that the suspect built and then designated (sic) in the way that he intended to use his weapon." Then we cut to a car blowing up. It doesn't get any more crass than this folks.
Bloomberg fails, however, to offer any explanation of how Pimentel was going to get his 'pipe bomb' (pipe bombs are notoriously volatile and usually end up killing their creator) into a police car (or several police cars since in this full version of the press conference Bloomberg says that Pimentel was "plotting to bomb police patrol cars, and postal facilities" and "members of our armed forces returning from abroad"). It's rather hard not to see that last comment about "members of our armed forces returning from abroad" as a direct response to the recent video of an Iraq invasion veteran letting loose on the NYC Police department's brutalization of OWS protestors. It also suggests that the US government and corporate elite are beginning to feel a little uneasy about the growth and persistence of the 'occupy' movement.
Pimentel was going to 'destroy your freedom and democracy' with an alarm clock, a piece of pipe and some Christmas lights
So why did Mayor Bloomberg decide to go to press with this story now? Is it just a coincidence that Pimentel seems to have waited until the 'occupy' movements across the US had grown deep roots before deciding to assemble his purported 'pipe bomb' and force the FBI to act? Or is there a more insidious confluence of government agendas at work here? You're damn right there are.
One of those agendas is, of course, the perpetuation of the 'Muslim terror' myth in the aftermath of the fabled death of Osama bin Laden. Perhaps that's why we're being sold the laughable story that Pimentel - a native of the Dominican Republic - was going to change his name to 'Osama Hussein'. Of course, we only have the word of the FBI, Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that that is in fact the truth. Police Commissioner Kelly also claimed that Pimentel was a follower of Anwar al-Awlaki, the 'radical American-born cleric' who attended dinner at the Pentagon and was, allegedly, murdered by a missile from US drone in September 2011. They charge a pretty high price for dinner at the Pentagon. In case you're having trouble believing that a guy with alleged links to the '9/11 hijackers' would be wined and dined at the Pentagon, even Fox news admitted it, so you know there must be even more to the story. I recommend you check out that last link, if only to skip to minute 1.04 to hear the Fox news pundit saying probably the most ironic thing you'll ever hear:
"A defense dept. spokesman has declined our request for an interview and it's not clear, frankly, what exactly the vetting process is at the Pentagon, that would have allowed a known associate of the 9/11 hijackers into the US military's headquarters..."
Yeah, those Islamic terrorist 'vetting processes' at the Pentagon are a real mystery...at least to Fox News.
According to Commissioner Kelly, Pimentel "tried to contact al-Awlaki directly, but never got a response". No doubt he needed a higher Pentagon security clearance, or an invite to dinner, to pull that one off. But we're not just talking about the FBI and the Pentagon here. The CIA is, naturally, up to its neck in phony terrorism of the Muslim variety, and not just overseas. For example, according to an October 2011 CBS News report:
[...] three months ago, one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees.
Exactly what he's doing there, however, is much less clear.
Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer - a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan - was assigned to a municipal police department. The CIA is prohibited from spying domestically, and its unusual partnership with the NYPD has troubled top lawmakers and prompted an internal investigation.
His role is important because the last time a CIA officer worked so closely with the NYPD, beginning in the months after the 9/11 attacks, he became the architect of aggressive police programs that monitored Muslim neighborhoods. With the earlier help from this CIA official, the police put entire communities under the microscope based on ethnicity rather allegations of wrongdoing, according to the AP investigation.
So there you have it. This latest 'lone wolf' story is nothing more than another CIA/FBI farce, another desperate attempt to re-inflate the fantastical and fictitious bubble that is the 'war on terror' by conflating ordinary Americans and their justified grievances with 'terrorism'. In doing so, the psychopaths in power hope to distract public attention away from the very real crimes of the American government, its agencies and its corporate and banking cronies and to criminialize dissent forever. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
When brothers John and Derek Tabacco showed up at the big Occupy Wall Street protest Thursday holding “Occupy a Desk” and “Get a Job” signs, they claimed they were engaging in an organic counter-protest against dirty hippies who were preventing them from getting to work. The local, national, and even international media promptly picked up their story.
But it turns out the Tabacco brothers have a long and sometimes checkered history of publicity-seeking and relentless self-promotion — and their claim that 50 local businessmen are supporting the anti-Occupy protest is entirely unsubstantiated.
Besides owning a finance company called LocateStock in lower Manhattan, John Tabacco is a Fox News contributor, a failed talk radio host, an unsuccessful city council candidate from Staten Island, and a onetime participant in the VH1 show “My Coolest Years.” An endorsement John Tabacco received in his city council campaign was later alleged to have been part of a pay-to-play deal. Derek Tabacco, for his part, is the CEO of what appears to be a defunct social network company for sports fans.
The Tabaccos showed up Thursday morning at the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, the spot where news cameras had gathered to film protesters and the throng of NYPD officers who had barricaded the street and were demanding “work IDs” for entry.
TV camera crews were assembled in a packed media area pointed down Wall Street toward the New York Stock Exchange, which protesters had planned to try to disrupt, but which they ultimately got nowhere near because of multiple NYPD barricades. So bored cameramen, who had been waiting around all morning for action (much of which ended up happening a few blocks away), turned to the Tabacco brothers.
That’s when I snapped the above photo. Each Tabacco brother was dressed more like a “Wall Street businessman” from central casting than an actual Wall Street businessman. They repeatedly said that occupiers were preventing them from getting to work; this seemed unlikely, as the police barricades were efficiently sorting protesters from actual office workers.
I asked them the name of the company they worked for a few times. They refused to say.
It all seemed like a pre-planned stunt designed exclusively for the benefit of the media, rather than any kind of organic counter-protest. And, as a media stunt, it worked remarkably well.
The story was picked up by multipleregionalandnationalmediaoutlets, as well as the Daily Mail. In one interview, Derek Tabacco referred to the occupiers as “these animals.” In another, John Tabacco referred to himself as “a member of the 53 percent,” a reference to the right-wing campaign around those Americans who “pay more in federal income taxes than they receive back in deductions or credits.”
John Tabacco was promptly brought in to Fox News for a sit-down interview with Neil Cavuto:
Note that in the Fox interview Tabacco said he and his brother had “about 50 small business owners” who were there — or there in spirit — standing against the Occupy protesters.
In my interview with Tabacco, he said he had “about 25 business owners” backing the effort. “It started very organically between small business organizers,” he told me.
Who are they? I asked.
“A lot of them are reluctant to stand in the street with a homemade sign. But we had their support,” Tabacco said. He later identified just two supporters in an email: John Bostany of the Bostany Law Firm and Robert Steffanelli of Legend Securities.
Here is what I have been able to piece together about John and Derek Tabacco’s history:
* In April, John Tabacco’s local talk radio show, “Family Business,” was cancelled just two weeks after it launched after he invited on Drita D’avanzo of the reality show “Mob Wives,” and she repeatedly used profanity on the air. Another “Mob Wives” star Tabacco had on the show, Renee Graziano, also swore on air.
* Tabacco has also been involved in an online TV show called “Street Cents” that touched on mob themes. Here he is interviewing Victoria Gotti. The show now appears to be defunct.
* In 2009 John Tabacco mounted an unsuccessful bid for city council from Staten Island. He later acknowledged to the New York Post that he had received the endorsement of the Independence Party in the race after making a $10,000 loan to the party chairman’s wife. The episode of (in the Post’s words) “possible pay-to-play conduct” was brought to the newspaper by Tabacco himself for reasons that are not entirely clear.
* In 2010, Tabacco attempted to get on an Independence Party primary ballot to challenge U.S. Rep. Michael McMahon — but failed to submit enough valid signatures. The McMahon camp challenged the signatures, alleging that Tabacco had submitted “sheets of names all signed by the same person.” The Board of Elections ruled against Tabacco, finding that he had not collected the 497 signatures needed to get on the ballot. In response, Tabacco filed a lawsuit to appeal the ruling – but then withdrew it without explanation.
* John Tabacco has been a regular guest on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show going back to 2008. Transcripts frequently identify him as a “Fox business analyst.” Tabacco tells me he is a “contributor to Fox and CNBC” but he is not paid.
* John Tabacco is the CEO of LocateStock. According to its website, the firm’s “Matador Platform” will help you “optimize hedging strategies by getting locates on hard-to-borrow securities.” The site also throws around words like “revolutionary” and “unique” to describe its product. For a company offering “exclusive real time access to a global pool of securities,” the website has remarkably low production values and features a lot of random Wall Street-themedstockart. In an interview Tabacco told me the company provides tools that allow “retail traders” to engage in short-selling.
* Tabacco made “his nationwide television debut” on the VH1 series “My Coolest Years” in 2005, according to one of his bios.
* The brothers have a local sports show, which is produced by “Tabacco TV.” In this episode, they box each other at a gym in Brooklyn:
(Hat tip to Will Smith and Adam Katz for the find.)
* John said his brother Derek is the CEO of FreeTheFan.com, described as “a competitive social community for sports fans.” But the site appears to be defunct, and its Twitter feed, which has six followers, was last updated in 2009.
* UPDATE: Derek Tabacco also appeared on season 4 of the Bravo reality show “Millionaire Matchmaker.” (Thanks to reader Lizz K for the tip.)
So what’s next for the Tabaccos? It sounds like they’re going to ride the anti-Occupy theme for as long as possible. There is now a “wallstfighters” Twitter feed.
“We had a strategy session last night,” Tabacco told me. “We have a couple strategic counter-protests coming up.” But, he added, they’re not ready to reveal the details.
Occupy Oakland's 'Infiltrator' Cop Comes Out in Support of Movement, as More Examples of Police Brutality Seen from Berkeley to Dallas
OPD Officer Shavies: 'I’m part of 99 percent, this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point'...
Posted By Brad Friedman On 11th November 2011 @ 14:08 In California, Texas, Rights And Freedoms, Accountability, Occupy Wall Street, Oakland | 21 Comments
Some of the police brutality that has occurred at Occupy demonstrations around the country has been appalling. It's particularly upsetting to watch as those cops seen violating the law and the Constitutional rights of demonstrators are also part of the "99 Percent" themselves.
One of them --- Officer Fred Shavies of the Oakland PD, who was revealed as an undercover infiltrator at Occupy Oakland[1] --- now concedes as much in an extraordinarily moving interview in which he condemns the violence by his fellow cops and says he sees the Occupy movement as a possible "turning point, the tipping point" for our generation.
"It looks like...police shot tear gas into it, right?" says Shavies, referencing the October 25 violence in Oakland at the intersection of 14th & Broadway that The BRAD BLOG[2] has documented in great detail here (see here[3], here[4] and here[5] for example). "That could be the photograph or the video for our generation. That’s our Birmingham," he explains, alluding to the police brutality that occurred during the otherwise peaceful fight for voting rights in the South during the 60s.
"So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point," Shavies says during the interview, as he identifies with the protesters in the "99 percent" movement, adding that he is one of them. [Video and more excerpts below.]
We're not among the anti-cop folks around here. We have, however, reported in great detail on the lawlessness demonstrated by some of the "law enforcement" officials in Oakland, referenced by Shavies, as well as the serious injuries they've inflicted on peaceful demonstrators[6] and even some who weren't demonstrating at all[7].
So while we don't oppose the lawful men and women of law enforcement, some of them seem to be working awfully hard to give their brothers and sisters a very bad name. Those who have done so must be held accountable for their actions.
You've seen some of the videos of NYPD officers violently pepper spraying peaceful demonstrators[8], and the videos from Oakland as seen in the articles linked above. Here are two more recent examples of appalling police behavior as witnessed on video tape.
The first is from Occupy Berkeley on Wednesday, where the actions seen below were reported by AP[9] as little more than police "nudging" demonstrators:
Television news footage from outside the university's main administration building showed officers pulling people from the steps and nudging others with batons as the crowd chanted, "We are the 99 percent!" and "Stop Beating Students!"
Really, AP? "Nudging"?...
The second is this recent example, via PoliceLeak.com[10], of a cop at Occupy Dallas blatantly shoving a demonstrator off a 4 ft. ledge...
SHAVIES: I’m a police officer. I’m part of the 99 percent. [...] In the ’60s when people would protest, would gather in order to bring about change, right? Those protests were nonviolent they were peaceful assemblies. They were broken up with dogs, hoses, sticks. [...] In Oakland, it looks like there was a square, and police shot tear gas into it, right? That could be the photograph or the video for our generation. That’s our Birmingham. So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. It’s about time your generation stood up for something, right? It’s about time young people are in the streets. [...] Ya’ll don’t need to throw gas canisters into a crowd of people that are occupying an intersection.
Incidents of police violence are isolated, to be sure. They ought not give the police as a whole a bad name any more than isolated incidents of violence by protesters (more often provoked by police than not during Occupy demonstrations, from our reporting) should be used to condemn the Occupy Movement as a whole.
But the police, of all citizens --- many of them former members of the Armed Forces who have fought overseas to defend our Constitutional rights --- ought to know better. They ought to stand in defiance of unlawful, unconstitutional orders. They ought to be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the vast, overwhelming majority of 100% peaceful demonstrators around the country. They ought to be turning around and arresting their fellow officers when they are seen violating the law and the rights of peaceful citizens.
In some of our earlier coverage of the Oakland PD's violent confrontation with demonstrators[12], and the unprovoked and unlawful use of tear gas against them[13], we noted that we "can't help but look at the faces of the police in gas masks...as they" stood quietly behind barricades across from peaceful demonstrators, "and wonder what they must be thinking to themselves."
When some 15 other agencies from elsewhere joined the Oakland PD in their multi-agency task force on October 25th, it might have been easy for many of them to face the demonstrators. Not so for Shavies, as he notes in the interview above, offering a brief glimpse of what was going on in at least his mind during that moment...
So for someone to say, "You are a tool of the man," it started to bother me...To stand there and have another black dude stand across the barrier and say "Man, you ain't a black man, you oughta be ashamed of yourself. You a traitor. How can you be a black man and be a cop? How could you be this and stand on that side? Your mom won't even respect you." So, in my mind, I'm smiling like, ya know, "Is he serious?" But, he kinda really feels that way. Which is also troubling to me, right? In the sense that I should have to choose. To me, it's not black and white. It's gray. Right? I'm a police officer. I'm a citizen of Oakland. I'm a part of the 99 percent. It's gray.
And I guess that's why it's easier for people to go and police in a community they don't belong to. You know, maybe in their mind it's easier, because they're...because it's just a job and they can take it off. I think about that stuff when I'm at home. It's not just a job for me. I can't just take it off. I don't take my uniform off, or my vest, and then...like, that stuff sticks with me. Cause I'm from Oakland.
Article printed from The BRAD BLOG: http://www.bradblog.com
URL to article: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8912
URLs in this post:
[1] revealed as an undercover infiltrator at Occupy Oakland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrvMzqopHH0&feature=player_embedded
[2] The BRAD BLOG: http://www.BradBlog.com
[3] here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8878
[4] here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8890
[5] here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8900
[6] on peaceful demonstrators: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8869
[7] weren't demonstrating at all: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8897
[8] violently pepper spraying peaceful demonstrators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ05rWx1pig
[9] reported by AP: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Dozens-of-Occupy-protesters-arrested-at-Berkel
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[10] via PoliceLeak.com: http://policeleak.com/post/12629439026/dallas-tx-police-officer-caught-on-video-
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[11] interview by Justin Warren with Oakland's Officer Shavies: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/10/366398/oakland-cop-supports-movement
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[12] earlier coverage of the Oakland PD's violent confrontation with demonstrators: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8876
[13] unprovoked and unlawful use of tear gas against them: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8878
As general strike looms, shady group promises to “go beyond” peaceful protestSteve Watson
Infowars.com
November 1, 2011
A crudely worded flyer handed out among Occupy Oakland Protesters has raised concerns that provocateurs are attempting to instigate violence in an attempt to de-rail plans for a general strike this week.
The flyer, pictured below, presents a rambling argument suggesting that anyone who engages in or supports nonviolent protest is “unwittingly complicit with the constelation of power that wages a daily war against freedom and peace”.
The flyer, signed off by an anonymous group calling itself ‘The Oakland Liberation Front’, suggests that engaging in non violent protest classifies as acting as “an auxiliary of the police force”.
“How dare you even ask for non-violence”, the flyer states, referring to the fact that police have already used violence against protesters. Last week’s confrontation culminated in Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen being seriously injured as “non-lethal” explosives, tear gas and rubber bullets were employed in an attempt to disperse protesters.
Promising to “go beyond” the pursuit of economic justice, the creators of the flyer vow to “seek a total transformation of society.”
“We seek the complete annihilation of capitalism”, the note reads, adding that this process will begin on Wednesday.
Wednesday is the day that demonstrators plan to engage in a general strike and to converge on Oakland’s port, one of the biggest commercial landmarks in the city.
By a vote of 1,484 to 46, the General Assembly of Occupy Oakland voted last week to call a citywide general strike for Wednesday.
“[W]e invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city,” the Occupy Oakland’s manifesto read. “We liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%.”
Commentators have suggested that the stage is being set in Oakland for a violent confrontation with police, which will be used as justification to crack down on Occupy protests all over the U.S.
As Madison Ruppert of Activist Post has noted, a strong crackdown on Occupations across America has begun in full force over the past few days.
“It is worth noting that the crackdown in Oakland directly violates a 2004 agreement made by the Oakland Police Department to refrain from using the exact types of tactics they utilized…” Ruppert adds.
There have also been reports out of Oakland of activists being deliberately targeted by police when trying to assist other injured protesters.
Video has also emerged of police in Oakland actively infiltrating the protests, raising yet more questions over their role in the violence witnessed so far in the city.
As the video highlights, Oakland’s acting Police Chief, Howard Jordan, previously muted the possibility of police provocateuring, stating:
”You don’t need to have some special skill to be able to infiltrate these groups. If you put people in there from the beginning, I think we’ll be able to gather the information. And maybe direct them to do something that we want them to do.”
—————————————————————— Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
Some of the police brutality that has occurred at Occupy demonstrations around the country has been appalling. It's particularly upsetting to watch as those cops seen violating the law and the Constitutional rights of demonstrators are also part of the "99 Percent" themselves.