One can bet that the Tea Baggers are not under this sort of police attention at all. Wonder why? Note: that was a rhetorical question.

Just a thought (probably illegal)...

But, did anyone ever think this whole movement might have been ignited for reasons akin to the lighting of fires following the Russian 'revolution'. The purpose of these neighborhood fires being to identify members of the bourgeoisie; such people were likely to stand, back turned to the fire, warming their hands rather than peasant style, full on trying to warm the entire body.

In other words, did we just witness a method for flushing out more malcontents, malcontents who could not succeed at anything (the game is over) except exposing themselves as anti-establishment types who should be considered a threat to the status quo under certain circumstances?

If nothing else, the Occupy Movement has helped justify (internally, if no where else) expansion of the FBI and its activities.

Pre-emptive policing, another gift from the Bush years.

The teavangelicals were bought and paid for by the one percent, Koch brothers, Fox news etc. The very people that the occupy people are concentrating on for their lies and thievery. They will be considered patriots while anyone making waves or demanding justice will be considered dangerous, the priorities are more tax breaks for the one percent at the cost of the working class and poor, End of story.

COINTELPRO 2? Worked great the first time. Right, Fred Hampton?

Protesters under police surveillance? Pre-emptive "ag-gag" laws, too? It's a crime to go undercover and expose abuse?

Last Friday, CNN's Headline News Network's Jane Velez-Mitchell featured a thought-provoking, two-part segment exposing the rotten truth behind Iowa's new "ag-gag" law. The segment featured interviews with Mercy For Animals's Executive Director Nathan Runkle and Farm Sanctuary's Bruce Friedrich, who addressed the dangerous and unconstitutional nature of this bill--and there are more in other states--which seeks to cover up the standard abuse and neglect that animals experience on factory farms nationwide.

Because there is no federal law protecting animals during their miserable lives on factory farms, the meat industry is given nearly free reign to abuse animals and call it standard operating procedure. As Velez-Mitchell reports, these bills are simply the product of "an unholy alliance between the US government, the USDA, meat producers, and other animal agriculture industries." So what else is new?

The 1% can afford to buy lobbyists, politicians, legislation, corporate media, and, of course, the police. THIS IS AMERICA! Love it or shove it! I prefer shoving back. How about you? Link to video: http://www.mfablog.org/2012/03/video-cnn-covers-iowa-ag-gag-law-debate.html

at the end of his life stalin was going to make it a law that it was a crime to have thoughts against the state fortunately a doctor who heard of this decided to overdose him on coumadin causing his fatal stroke I would never have thought that the us authorities would get to the point where they were doing what Stalin intended to do at the worst point of his rule don't the police realize that they too are the 99%?

"OWS protestors still under police surveillance."

Umm....duh? You vote for evil, you get evil, lesser or greater. Stop voting D and R, idiots. You have only yourselves to blame. And in November, when you vote Obama back in? Shut your mouths when the police state escalates and the war with Iran breaks out. YOU voted for it. You therefore lose your right to bitch about it.

Sounds like the U.S. is using a similar playbook as Communist China. Stamp out any civil movement that would dare question the corruption and fraud taking place in the country that benefits the one percent and their handlers.

"obstructing governmental administration" sounds like some BS charge that might have come out of the former Soviet Union.

'Disturbing The Public Order' or 'Upsetting Public Harmony" sound like more good ones. I'd better stop before I either give them more ideas or have the STASI pay me a visit in the middle of the night.

911 changed everything. You never know. One of those coffee-drinking, pastry eating OWS activists could have a bomb. It's only because of our brave men and women in uniform that we have any freedoms at all. A little surveillance is one of the costs of freedom in our post-911 world. A small price to pay. ;-]

Corporate/political bullying aside, I remain astonished that the media can get away with glorifying Middle East protest movements, while minimizing or totally omitting US protest movements. One is about "getting" democracy . . . the other is about keeping it. Oh, I forgot . . . our "democracy" is in no need of reform. The NYTimes' NIMBY reaction to Occupy would have been laughable, if it hadn't been so hypocritically pathetic. And so much of the rest of the Fourth Estate followed suit. Wouldn't want those dirty creatures upsetting our lifestyle, would we? People who think that we have sufficient venues for discussion & change through corporate-created talk shows (like that'll solve all the world's problems!) are so naive that as a collective group, they may be heading for the all-time Darwin Award. As long as the powers-that-be can keep this double standard afloat, their ships will keep coming in.

And kudos to these young people and their lawsuit. It's pretty ironic that we can watch TV and movies that follow all the legal rules for arrest and detention and protection against unreasonable surveillance . . . but the reality police can get away with unbelievable abuses. Why are people putting up with this? We do have laws in place (though that's fast changing), and as another just said, it truly is time to shove back.

The only up side to this - they must be hitting a nerve to get this kind of a response from the powers that be. Like the first comment said about teabaggers not getting ANY harassment - and they were toting guns! Oh, and spitting on congressmen.

One of the last things Dennis Kucinich did before leaving the house was to vote for a bill turning the OWS people into felons. What? Not Dennis, no! Oh wait, yeah, he did. Dang. Thanks Dennis. Thanks a lot.

It is clear that everyone whose rights are manhandled should try to find the courage to sue. If it is a rogue police officer, then find a good public interest attorney, sue, and go after the policeman's pension, retirement, and estate, and, file a criminal complaint, and don't let go. Go to the newspapers, go to the ombudsmen, and go to your City Councilmen. The more people fight using the legal system, the more it will force the police` officers to think about and question what they themselves are really doing, make them more willing to comply with the law, and maybe even cause some to break ranks and question their superiors about policy. The city manhandles everyone who lacks leverage or power- minorities, small business owners, small property owners, not just OWS demonstrators, and the only answer is to fight back. What the city lacks is sufficient resources, and it will show if enough people with just cause sue. Justice is slow, and one must be prepared to lose, but for those who tough it out, justice can be sweet, and the consequences to the bad apples severe. And don't always think of all officers as the enemy. There are many good ones, including some that are truly courageous and suffer at the hands of the corrupt ones- take, for example, Adam Schoolcraft who uncovered and disclosed the intentional misreporting of crime statistics in the 81st precinct, and was was manhandled and wrongfully stripped of his rights and privileges because of it. Responsibility and liability in his case seems to have existed at all levels of the chain of command.

The Occupy movement needs to let the police-state surveillance and militaristic intelligence goon infiltrators make the Occupy movement's point for them and reinforce the 'framing' of the seminal issue --- EMPIRE. ____________________________________________ If the movement focuses on the argument that the current US Government is nothing but a facade for the disguised global corporate/financial/militarist (and media) Empire, which has captured and now fully "Occupies" our former country by hiding behind the facade of that Empire's modernized and two-party "Vichy" sham of faux-democratic and totally illegitimate government --- just as the Nazi Empire hide behind its earlier and crude single-party facade of the "Vichy" regime in captured and "Occupied" France in WWII --- then any infiltration and exposure of the movement's rationale, strategy, and tactics would only support and reinforce the 'framing' of that argument, and thus by repeating this language of EMPIRE and comparison with a historically understood disguising act of a known previous Empire resonate with an expanded group of average American citizens who are already questioning why their supposed country is acting as oppressively, destructively, and greedily as it clearly is on both a domestic and global stage. Let them repeat the real strategy of the movement to educate the people, expose the people, and confront the Empire that has taken over the people's country --- that only helps the movement by repeating the truth. If the message of the movement rings true with both the people of the country and, even more importantly, with what the people are seeing with their own eyes as a strangely dysfunctional and generally counter-productive faux-government (which the vast majority of the people already perceive as being "wrong track") then the message of the Occupy Movement and any infiltrated discussion of the same message of Empire by the imperialist forces of the military, the media, the politicians, and the financial institutions of the Empire will simply be reinforced and the 'framing' be further validated in the minds of average people --- (as cognitive scientists and linguists like George Lakoff strongly recommend). Hopefully, even FOX News would be stupid enough to report something like, "government intelligence infiltrators to the Occupy Movement have discovered and are reporting that this movement believes and is acting on the premise that a disguised global empire (DGE) has taken over our country and must be confronted." Which to a sizable majority of US citizens who already believe that the country is on the "wrong track" would merely provide an accurate answer to their already held question, "what is so wrong about things with the political, economic, corporate, financial, and foreign military situation that could explain why things are as ----ed-up as I already feel??" "Oh, the friggin system has been taken over by a guileful and disguised Empire that is totally not responding to the needs of us, the people, the 99%? Yea, that seems to make perfect sense to me! It sure does seem like some kind of secret Empire is actually in charge of everything that's going wrong --- because we sure as hell aren't in charge anymore." Like all our mothers always told us --- "you can't beat telling the truth" --- let's just let the infiltrators help be on-message and help frame the message of the Occupy (Empire) Movement by repeating this message from their militarist intelligence and police-state sources, their complicit corporatist media sources, their deceitful politicians, and their financial looters on Wall Street --- all of whom the citizens of America are already predisposed to be against, even before they are made fully aware that all of these villains are working together as a hidden EMPIRE against the people. Best luck with the movement's educational and revolutionary efforts, Alan MacDonald Sanford, Maine