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08.25.11 - 12:42 PM
Anonymous to Wall Street: Expect Us

Anonymous has released a video endorsing #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, a non-violent action on Sept. 17 calling for protestors to set up tents, kitchens and barricades to occupy Wall Street for a few months (which could be tricky). Simultaneous occupations of financial districts are planned in Madrid, Milan, London, Paris and San Francisco.
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Show AllThis will bring out the billy clubs, mace, rubber bullets, sound cannons and heat rays. And it will not be covered by the fawning corporate media.
Okay, we occupy Wall Street starting in September and we occupy DC starting in October. Will the USAmericans wake up and wise up??? I surely do hope so. We need millions in the streets, not just thousands. Get off your butts and be a part of the change else just start learning to bow and curtsey to your "betters". This is not about political parties.
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These people are the enemy but will be protected by every cop and serviceman that our government and corporations can muster. Mass killing is nothing new to these people in the name of god. Good luck I will be with you! Fox news lies, hey republicans where are the jobs? Remember the shellacking? Well where are the jobs? At mcdonalds?
Many people serving the system as muscle are waking up to the fact that they are first and foremost people just like the demonstrators. They know the system will use them and throw them away when they are no longer useful.
Finally..... I have waited a lifetime for this.
If a brave, beautiful 23 year old girl in Chile has the courage and conviction to do this, why not we?
I think it's a good idea and I hope no one, or at least few, of the demonstrators get hurt. But my cynicism says, like the first poster's comment, that most likely this will result in violent action against the occupying group and no media coverage, unless it's distorted and blaming of the protesters. I have great doubt that even a long occupation of Wall Street or DC will cause any real change from the corrupt cronies of the rich and corporate America in each area.
But as I always say, I've been wrong before and usually each time I'm very glad of it...
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God, what an inspiring video. I just love it.
I think the most important thing to realize is:
Wall Street Banksters and Goons sent to protect them = maybe 100,000
Anonymous = up to 300,000,000 pissed-off Americans.
Bring Heavy Shoes if you can go. If you can't go, throw a wrench in the system any way you can, where ever you are.
This crooked bigbizgovernment has to go.
TJ
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I sort of get a different feel for this TJ. Wall Street spends a few million dollars putting on extra security. Transactions still continue, but perhaps at a slower, reduced pace.
Anonymous spends a few dollars posting 'threats' on YouTube that may never come about....
eventually Wall Street must lose the economic war being waged.
I think it would be a real hoot if Anonymoun could find a way to do a low-level format on every single hard-drive owned by Goldman Sacks.
Here's their non-violent gridlock tactic.....what a brilliant idea. I have the date marked on my calendar.
by Anonymous on August 26 2011, @03:56 am
Tactic: Nonviolent gridlock!
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A few dozen people can gridlock a city during the morning rush hour.
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All they have to do is split up into smaller groups and take their time crossing the street at certain key intersections.
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They can be substantially helped by a small handful of cars "stalling in traffic" for a couple of minutes at other key intersections.
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First you need to do a fairly extensive study of the traffic patterns in the target area. Carefully note where the choke points are, and where other stalls and minor fender benders have caused major traffic jams.
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Also useful to study the timing of all of the traffic lights and pedestrian walk signs in the area, to note exactly how long each one is in each phase (green, yellow, red, walk, don't walk).
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When this is done correctly, it doesn't appear as if anything unusual is going on: just people dawdling as they cross the street, and someone pulled over looking at their tire or under their hood, or double parking briefly as they dash into a store to grab a quick snack.
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And it can be devastatingly effective. All for nothing more than at worst a minor ticket for the small fraction who get caught, the costs of which can be shared by an entire affinity group or other organized group.
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Be sure to send a communique after the deed has been done, ideally while the traffic is still at a standstill. Use disposable cellphones and text for that purpose, sending the text message to a local media outlet, ideally one that's sympathetic. In NYC that would be radio station WBAI. There are others elsewhere.