Glenn Greenwald - What's Behind The Scorn For The Wall Street Protests?
White shirt NYPD officer above is none other than Anthony Bologna, the thug who maced innocent female protesters over the weekend.
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Call NOW and demand that Bologna be charged:
Mayor Bloomberg: +1 (212) 639-9675 or +1 (212) 788-2958
Deputy Commissioner of Public Information: +1 (646) 610-6700
NYPD Switchboard: +1 (646) 610-5000
First precinct: +1 (212) 334-0611
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It's unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed with hostility by establishment-serving institutions and their loyalists. That's just the nature of protests that take place outside approved channels, an inevitable by-product of disruptive dissent: those who are most vested in safeguarding and legitimizing establishment prerogatives (which, by definition, includes establishment media outlets) are going to be hostile to those challenges. As the virtually universal disdain in these same circles for WikiLeaks (and, before that, for the Iraq War protests) demonstrated: the more effectively adversarial it is, the more establishment hostility it's going to provoke.
Nor is it surprising that much of the most vocal criticisms of the Wall Street protests has come from some self-identified progressives, who one might think would be instinctively sympathetic to the substantive message of the protesters. In an excellent analysis entitled "Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street," Kevin Gosztola chronicles how many of the most scornful criticisms have come from Democratic partisans who -- like the politicians to whom they devote their fealty -- feign populist opposition to Wall Street for political gain.
Here's another pic of Anthony Bologna in action...
Sep 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Reader Comments (27)
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While you are sitting at the keyboard could someone spray you in the face with MACE? I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem.
We real men are tough.
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The ADs are for trading sites...you don't see ads for Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Bank Of America, JPMorgan...
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14424144582837922601&q=rakoff+bank+america+s.e.c.&hl=en&as_sdt=2,14 ("the parties were proposing that the management of Bank of America—having allegedly hidden from the Bank's shareholders that as much as $5.8 billion of their money would be given as bonuses to the executives of Merrill who had run that company nearly into bankruptcy—would now settle the legal consequences of their lying by paying the S.E.C. $33 million more of their shareholders' money.")
Eventually the S.E.C. and BAC were able to duck Judge Rakoff and get a dismissal. Well, guess what. BAC shareholders aren't done with management for its corruptly inept handling of the bank's merger with Merrill:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44700101
It couldn't happen to a bigger collection of nozzles.
To the people who work in the corporate media, be aware. If the cops can pepper spray people illegally and get away with it, then what's to stop them from using their guns to get away with murder? And then, what's to stop them from forming death squads like they have in Brazil? Is that the kind of country you want your families to live in? Our government is forcing us down a road to tyranny, and unless enough people oppose them, we will have tyranny.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/28/united-pilots-protest-wall-st-uniform-occupywallstreet-occupychicago-occupyla-occupyseattle-union-71521/
Also, the girl in the first picture looks like the one interviewed on RT - perhaps there was the motive for the attack.
Like NBC said today the cops were in the right to spray down the out of control girls......They had it comming and the cops did nothing wrong.......
No wonder the sheeple are so fuc*ing clueless.......?
http://bluesunited.blogspot.com/2011/09/nypd-investigates-924-macing-officer.html
Dar...did you hear that on NBC News tonight...did they really blame the protesters for getting maced?
Yea, can you belive it......Yes We Can.. Its no wonder 80% have No Clue as to whats realy going on today, about anything.....?
You know what they are waiting for. Lets hope they dont do it. With it in 3 towns right now the "Wizzered of O Bama Oz" would call it for all 57 states..........!
That 80% (which personally I'd put at closer to 95%) is melting fast.I'm telling you, I walk by the protesters in Chicago multiple times a day. And I'm in the working crowd that's supposed to ignore them. It's a way different vibe this time. Normally your day workers like me are politely hostile to protesters.
Not now. You can feel it, the electric energy that wants to hop the fence.
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Umm. They are doing just as you ask. They are blocked from protesting on Wall Street. I believe they are in Liberty Park nearby. Now, when the unions join in, and the numbers grow, that might be another story.