Forum Post: National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 22, 2011, 4:32 p.m. EST by rascal
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National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee and the Partnership for Civil Justice today filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the National Parks Service to release "all their information on the planning of the coordinated law enforcement crackdown on Occupy protest encampments in multiple cities over the course of recent days and weeks."
The Guild and other observers strongly suspect that the 72 so-called Fusion Centers created by the Homeland Security Department around the country, and the many Joint Terror Task Forces operated by the FBI in conjunction with local police in many cities, are serving as coordination points for the increasingly systematic attacks on the Occupy Movement.
I really dont understand the point...is it illegal in any way for these different groups to coordinate? Does anyone believe they would not? Besides that the very name "homeland security" makes me feel alternately like puking (wtf has happened to us?) or laughing (am i in a bad 1950's drama of WWII?), we have to all acknowledge that law enforcement is now very different because of it, and that the authorities are in fact coordinating.
LOL lawyers are whores. They are trying to get OWS members to sign on a mass case, so the lawyers can make a ton of money. Anyone who goes along with this is just a sheep playing into the same corruption as the bankers or government. It may be the right idea, but not with a bunch of whorish lawyers. Unless of course they are waiving their fees which is doubtful.
You seem to have missed the point of the article: Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown
THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD is national non-profit legal and political organization of lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers. We represent progressive political movements, using the law to protect human rights above property interests and to attain social justice.
http://www.nlg.org/
I know who they are. Ive been around the legal field for a long time. They are all being paid for their work, whether they say non profit or not. They are not altruistic they are in it for the money. Just like the ACLU. You don't really think those people are all making minimum wage do you?