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This is at the Adbusters Culture Jammers site:
Citizens of the internet,
Today we release to you a cache of hours Zuccotti park raid footage. Brought to you by the New York Police Department’s TARU! As many of you know, the NYPD denied freedom of press the night of the Zuccotti raid by kicking out the media and keeping them two blocks away. They also detained and arrested several journalists. Much of the video being released is edited by the NYPD, and at times the edits are quite blatant, probably trying to cover up their brutality committed November 15th in Zuccotti park.
Surveillance cuts both ways… It can also be used to make the authorities accountable for their actions. As you watch the videos in this archive… We ask you to take down the badge numbers of those that committed crimes against the peaceful occupation protest. If the badge is unclear, that nifty number on their storm trooper helmets is the badge number. Report and makes (sic) complaints how you see fit. We ask you to keep an eye out for glitches in tape, timestamp changes, or other things that just are not quite right with the film. Make note of them.
Dictators in other countries have been known to drive street sweepers up and down roads, often for days at a time when they knew a protest is supposed to be taking place there. Sound familiar?
The tactics are the same, the methods are the same, the power, is the same. We ask the people to stand in solidarity with your brothers and sisters around the world.
For our struggle is the same.
The struggle for equality, justice, peace and freedom.
Your secrets keep me peaceful.
Your lies keep me safe.
You are satisfied with my ignorance, and you are in control.
But we are aware.
We are Anonymous
We do not forgive.
And we do not… Forget.
Anonymous
Read the full Anonymous communique, watch 16 minutes of sample footage, and download the full archive of secret footage via bittorrent.
The intro video is here; the communique was, of course, parked at pastebin. The bittorrent link went to ‘page not found’ for me. Update: i googled and found the page that shows the playlist. I found it at the Dissenter; once again I missed it at the MotherShip. Thanks, Kevin.
I suppose ‘report and make complaints as you see fit’ will be useful in some lawsuits against the cops-pigs-police-security-apparatus. Most of you will know far about any of this than I, and especially as far as spreading it about.
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Thanks Wendy! The harvest moon and a glass of wine are calling me, but I will take a look soon. Rec’d, of course.
Since I wasn’t there I have no useful reason to view the archived cache. But I’d like to watch the video recording made when all the police officers were given their mission and orders. It would probably show that they were informed that police cameras would be recording everything. I doubt they were instructed to be as brutal as possible and to apply excessive force in every instance.
Knowing they were being recorded must have been a restraining influence. Brutality and inappropriate excessive force would have been kept to a minimum for that reason.
So it seems the presence of video cameras, their advance knowledge and understanding by the police was smart.
That said, I’d donate to Firedoglake to raise a citizens police force, fully armed and helpful.
Anyone who thinks that massive demonstrations that may occur because of some further economic decline would result in TBP reluctantly giving in to any progressive programs, is sadly delusional.
The more likely outcome would be even more militaristic crack downs than even the worst we have already seen.
I am directed by a higher authority to inform you that…
50 of your officers were shot while escaping.
Shot?
Their… personal effects will be returned.
How many of them were wounded?
Here are the names… of the dead.
How many of the 50 were wounded?
None. The Great Escape
The problem is that there are are large number of people in this country that not only support this kind of reaction but also themselves enjoy the idea of playing Gestapo and SS and Stasi and beating people to a bloody pulp.
That there were a lot of people in this country that saw nothing wrong with what happened at Kent State and Jackson State and thought this kind of action was not only warranted but should have happened sooner.
And this attitude has not change much since then.
I agree I think, but why are you replying to me and writing about something altogether different from what my comment expressed?
In 1969 (a year before the state-sanctioned murders at KSU and JSU), I watched as the Ohio National Guard invaded my college town, its countless personnel carriers driving up to the campus green and peeling off left and right, an officer giving left-right orders, just like the not-yet-made Patton would show the US Army landing in Italy.
Martial Fucking Law because the students threatened to strike in support of the maintenance and dining hall workers. The following year, the school shut down early in April, cancelled the rest of the terms, and simply closed up shop.
Demonstrations never effected anything except some additional awareness. But the rioting and massive destruction in Detroit, Newark, and Watts led to serious investigations into the causes, which led to legislative mandated efforts to prevent their reoccurrence, including school bussing and Affirmative Action, among other economic incentives that gave tax-breaks for businesses and industries to locate in slum areas.
My recollection is that with those ‘changes’ there was renewed ‘hope’ despite the constant resistance in many places.
Then came Reagan and the Morning Backlash In America, and you know the rest.
But as a ‘nation’, we tried …
The ultra, ultra-rich apparently, just aren’t that into us–except as serfs Who’d a thunk that they actually liked us as serfs?
And, thank you AitchD for your history of resistance and opposition to what you saw in 1969. Funny that the National Guard never rolled onto the Ivy League Campuses?
–quote I heard once as attributed to a Spanish Civil War anti-facist heroine.
I hit the wrong button. Sorry…my bad.
Those who think voting for Democrats will achieve such through the magic of incrementalism are even more so.
All and all, your assessment seems a bit drama-queen to me. Sure things are shitty, but we’re several stages away from that. You are superimposing a strongman psychology from a dynamic such as the one in Syria onto a situation where it simply doesn’t apply.
Besides, outside of a reasonably minor group of campaigners against it … Americans really do have a lot of guns. Even the current arrogant powers that be aren’t stupid enough to start shooting at a mass of armed people with nothing left to lose. There are too many acceptable fallback positions that would maintain their power while placating popular anger. The only reason they are doing what they are doing right now is because they can – they don’t *have* to shoot anyone.
All over the world Every Politician trying to STOP media. But they do not know they never success. No one STOP a real writer. Thank you for nice post.
I am astounded and impressed by the amount of information streaming out of this highly enlightening protest movement! One year in, and we are starting to see how Occupy can be truly fruitful. Can you imagine how important this information – and access to it – will be to the children who are coming of age during these times? Unprecedented awareness. I love it.
Interested in irreverent and seditious humor? Please check out and share this account of OLSX Year Two:
http://icygrapes.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/nikola-tesla-on-the-occupy-movements-1st-anniversary/
Not so much a post as a PSA, 2 Steps.
No video available on what Ray Kelly told the cops, but this piece at Salon has a roundup of what we already knew, and some new info besides. Quease-making so early in the morning.
Point taken on the advance notice of the cops being videotaped, and I didn’t watch enough footage to guess what degree of restraint it caused. So much of the ugly stuff they do, they do with impunity. That said, Anonymous seems to hope any info on IDs might help defense cases or lawsuits.
Rioting in the Hough Avenue distict in Cleveland *definitely* had a lot of good outcomes; the history’s really interesting.
My own recollection is that the massive demonstrations in the street on the heels of the news that Nixon had been secretly bombing Cambodia (helping to create the Khmer Rouge) for over a year was directly responsible for ending the war in Viet Nam. I remember being in the throngs in Boulder, seeing men in suits and ties marching, women who certainly like their counterparts.
Like the author of the four or five current posts allegedly authored ny Sarah Morrigan, too many in the US seem oblivious to the fact that OWS is a *global movement*, and that the contaigon is likely to spread here again once the next shoe or two drop here. IMO, she (if they were indeed authored by a single person) and her several supporters here are pretty much attempting to tame the movement into the MoveOn.org version. They also seem uninformed as to how many working groups and parallel movements are doing a lot of studying, considering and are busy creating new models for the future. Yeppers, one financial working group in NYC has been all about reforming the financial system through regulation, etc., but still, their reports may be useful later, too.
There are many ongoing projects to make end runs around the Machine, some more effective than others…so far.
Again, I’m with the Culture Jammers, in that this sincerely is a revolution of consciousness, a spiritual insurrection, as they put it.
(toward the end):
Sure it’ll take massive civil resistance to declare this government too toxic and captured to be allowed to exist, and we’ve reached a number of the conventional tipping points already. Next comes, of course, *mental* awareness of those, and then the ‘noting left to lose’ gut knowledge *hopefully* leading to it.
Great throngs would matter to the security state, for obvious reasons. Not only can they not kill them/us all, but they cannot kill an Idea Whose Time Has Come Again: the need for a second American Revolution based on working together…for each other, rather than living in the present isolated and self-interested lives so many of us do.
But wot??? No one even the Queen is a Guy Fawkes mask? I thought it was brilliant!
[Updated to add]: Thanks, Gregorio Ernesto; the link looks like great fun.
The Anonymous Queen pic is creepy and disturbing! That was my *very first thought*. Heehee.
Good-o, then, ysd. She really is creepy-bo-peepy. ;o)
That Salon piece is disturbing. I’ve read many articles and essays about the NYPD’s recent structuring and horrible abuses, but I’ve never read anything as immature and poorly expressed as that piece. Still, it’s otherwise carefully documented and presumably unassailable.
In a law-enforcement population of some 51,000, how many of those would be considered prone to violence and antisocial behavior? Evidently the behavioral tests that screen employment applicants or applicants for promotion are far from foolproof (unless you take a cynical crackpot-conspiratorial position and figure they want many violent and antisocial personalities).
In the general US male population, some 3% would be diagnosed with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder), and about 1% of the female population. There are 6000 females in the NYPD.
So, the NYPD would be expected to have about 1400 violent and dangerous guys on the force. That’s a lot of guys considered to be armed and dangerous.
No, aitchD; I won’t take the cynical crackpot-conspiratorial position and figure they want many violent and antisocial personalities. But if Obama mandated that returning vets received any preference in hiring, and *if* they had seen active duty, *and* they may have overlooked any history of, or screening results…that showed….
Oh, wait. What am I saying? All military are trained to be enemy-adverse, though it’s hard to say if that would translate into seeing domestic enemies as subhuman.
No seriously, I don’t want to go nutsy-fagin imagining that all cops are pigs; it’s just that we see that now more than we used to. (Our local cops just got Tasers, almost prompting me to write a LTE.) (They don’t print my letters anymore, of course.) ;o)
p.s. ASPD would only be one of the diagnoses that might indicate being overly prone to violence, eh wot?
Tsk, if I’da intended wendydavis when I wrote “you” I’da written ‘ya’. ;o)
If they won’t print yer letters, ya can ask fer donations and hire a plane to trail a banner. Cheaper yet, thousands of party balloons with a message.
Ack; I was tryin’ fer teh funny on the first sentence; failed to win The Silver. ;oP
Somehow, I think…they’d nuke the plane…. ;o)
O! Well, then. I’ve grown accustomed to expect teh funny when ya call me Hi-Def, but when ya call me by my Username, I rent a tux.
If they nuke the plane, it would be headline news, maybe picked up nationally!
G’ night, Username.
Don’t let the tuxedo dragons harsh yer dreams…