In a coordinated attack all a crossed America, Occupy camps were up rooted and “Evicted” from the parks they had been occupying over the last 2 months. This was attempted several times before but the surprise attack and the blackout on media allowed them to accomplish their mission this time. The police were swift in the removal which was later backed by the courts. New Yorks Zuccotti Park was power sprayed, empty and clean 4 hours after the attack.
The main media has done a poor job coving the occupy movement from the beginning. If you watchlivesteam .com or Globalrevolution.tv you can watch these protest live all a crossed the world but when you compare them to what is reported you would not believe it. The protest in Oakland where U.S. Marine Scott Olsen received a skull fracture and was rushed to the hospital after the local police continue the shelling of the wounded man was reported on the Washington Post front page as “Police us non-lethal force to remove Oakland occupy”. They even top it off with a photo of a female officer petting a kitten, ah how cute. Social media and wireless phones are the reason that we are continuing to see the truth on TV. This is one of the issues that are angering Americans all a crossed the country and leading them to help the movement.
National media has tried to work with the cities and backs to discredit the occupy movement though a series of claims made over the last 2 months. First the protesters were just bored college students with nothing else to do and teamed up with the city bums just wasting the time of our local police. Then we started to see that violent crimes were happening in these camps and the mayor “felt like he needed to do something”, only created gain public support in destroying these camp (besides these are major metropolitan areas crime was going to happen with or without the camps). After that failed they started looking for a money trail and made a media push that occupy was fully funded by George Soros who was considered a Jewish Nazi and later attempted ties to ACORN though financing. Again none of these worked in swaying public opinion, so they moved back to those dirty, ignorant and created by the union’s protestors. Even a story came out stating that the protesters were actually rich kids with great homes, so what was their problem and let’s not forget it was also a ploy by Obama to compete with the Tea Partiers.
In 2 months all of these stories ran along with stories about deaths in the area of the camps, Spreading of VD, lice, Tuberculosis and many more attempts to break up the camps. The City of New York even took Zuccotti Park’s occupy members fuel and generators so they couldn’t produce heat (Due to the fire hazard which seemed to be ok the 2 months prior), knowing that the fall was ending a winter would soon be here to disperse the crowd. They didn’t leave matter of fact within 48 hours they had a new safe generator designed from bicycles. The American ingenuity struck again, the same kind of resolve that kept us from losing the revolution is the same that keep people fighting.
The Banks have even started to put pressure on not only occupy but any politician that may support the movement. A memo was released from a high profile DC lobbying group that was selling the idea to the American Bankers Association (ABA) to launch an $850,000 campaign to discredit the Occupy group. MSNBC.com reports Clark Lytle Geduldig & Crawford; already the lobbying group for the ABA, Koch Industries and MasterCard urged the ABA to build “negative narratives” about protest and its supporters.
President Obama was quoted by TIME.com as saying: “So I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.” This apparently doesn’t apply to the United States. President Obama is torn between the people he swore to help and the donors that paid his way into the Presidency.
The Occupy movement is not letting up, matter of fact it picks up more steam ever time the banks or government try to undermine the movement. Uprooting the protestors from the park lets them spread their work more easily. Protestors will find new ways to disrupt the banking industry like all calling their call centers and eating up their employee’s time, sending their prepaid envelopes filled with garbage back to them and protesting in front of their locations. Again, the ingenuity of the American people will shine in showing different ways to put politicians and Banks in pain.
The numbers are going daily in all of the occupy cities and the more you “Evict” or force them to stop the more that join. The more that see the 85 year old lady being tear gassed the more that will show up for the next protest. The more people that watch Youtube.com and see Citi Bank having customers arrested for trying to close accounts and the more people learn about live stream and see that 200 person protest was more like 2000 the more they will help. They may not march but they will boycott companies, move their banks, send money and coats, call banks, send back the prepaid envelope and many more ideas will spring up. I have even received a $1 bill with a stamp on it that states that this $1 bill is $1 more than Bank of America pays in taxes per year.