I read about this yesterday and was very pleased to see Twitter was not rolling over for the government.

I agree. I’ve been saying for a long time that I’d rather have a Republican in the WH just so that the Democrats will at least pretend again to object to these violations. With Obama in office we have very few of us who are objecting. I think Obama has been a disaster for civil liberties.

Great piece, Kevin. Thanks.

Great news. Now let’s see if the MSM will even talk about it on the news. If they do, I’m sure they will be just as obnoxious as Mr. Capp.

I’m in a local political discussion group on Facebook. I posted a link to Greenwald’s excellent piece on this poll yesterday. So far not one comment to my post. Evidently no one thinks it’s even worthy of a response. Thank you for writing this piece Kevin because now I can post a comment to my own post from yesterday with a link to your piece. lol Maybe that will get some kind of discussion going.

Seriously, it breaks my heart to see these poll numbers. These people aren’t liberal, their faux liberals when it suits them. Shame on all of them.

Let’s try FOIA and see what lies they tell us.

Another interesting post on DU by wOnderer:

they are in new york

OWS could take a petition signed by occupiers requesting ‘observers’ or peace keepers
to the UN, if naught else that’d start some more media
and FORCE the US Ambassador to the UN to respond to some pretty …interesting questions

play the system

Yeah, WE know but they still have an enormous audience who unfortunately don’t have a clue that they are being spoon fed only the news these people want to tell them. It’s our airwaves and I refuse to politely go away and allow them to continue to bamboozle my fellow citizens.

Sweet.

You are correct but maybe that is what will be required of all of us. We can then hold an event where everyone who was arrested tells their story. Maybe we can even get on one of the talk shows so that even more people hear about the police tactics that are being used to stifle dissent.

I love that.

Perhaps incorporate guerrilla style tactics of hit and run. I can see large crowds showing up at daily protests. Maybe they can occupy Grand Central Station? The police wouldn’t know if you were there to catch a train or protest. lol

I love this part of Greenwald’s piece:

A New York state judge this morning temporarilly enjoined the city from keeping the protesters out of Zuccotti Park, but Mayor Bloomberg is simply ignoring the Order and deliberately breaking the law by refusing to allow them back in. Put another way, Bloomberg this morning has broken more laws than the hundreds of protesters who were arrested. But as we know, the law does not apply to the Michael Bloombergs of the nation; the law, instead, has simply been exploited into a weapon used by the politically and financially powerful to prevent challenges to their standing.

Greenwald has an excellent post up about this.

That’s right, there is NO excuse (at least a valid excuse) and they should be called on it repeatedly and LOUDLY.

I just saw this information posted on DU by No Elephants:

Democracy Now says they saw all the belongings of the protestors being thrwon into sanitation trucks.

And, though the notice said people would be able to pick up their belongings at the Sanitation Department upon proper identification, the drivers said they were taking the stuff to the dump.

For homeless people, this stuff is all they own in the world.

Today is a good day to donate to Occupy Supply. I’m waiting on a bank transfer to my account. Once it’s completed I will be donating to Occupy Supply because it sounds like a lot of supplies will need to be re-purchased.

I was watching the CBS Early show this morning when they reported on the protesters being evicted. They included footage of Bloomberg’s 1 a.m. press conference talking about safety but they never mentioned that a NY Council member had been injured/arrested at Zuccotti AND they never mentioned the order by Justice Lucy Billings. Now if I already knew this information a good 10 minutes before their reporting I know they had the information. There is no excuse for slanting this story and only providing viewers with partial information. They are truly owned, heart and soul, by the 1%. Shame on them!