Reason Magazine’s Michael Tracey on OWS:

(Hat-tip to Michael Rozeff, LRC blog)

“Many cited Saturday’s mass arrest of 700 nonviolent protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge as a galvanizing moment. Among those taken into custody were New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard and a member of the National Lawyers Guild, who was wearing a green hat to signify his status as a legal observer. Shockingly, multi-billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg said police “did exactly what they are supposed to do” in carrying out this mass arrest operation. But unfortunately, Mayor Mike has not yet commented on why officers initially escorted and guided demonstrators across the bridge, giving dozens of people I interviewed the misleading impression that entry onto the roadway portion was being permitted. Once protesters made it about halfway across, they were suddenly cordoned off by rows of officers on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn ends.”

Comment:

Some say there’s more to OccupyWallStreet than the picture being drawn by the right, which is of communist agitators.  These are just ordinary folks protesting gigantic corruption in the markets, they say. Maybe so. I do believe the right is indulging in a bit of demonization.  And I do think there are ordinary people marching out there, with legitimate grievances. No question of it.

But my eyes are peeled wide open on this blog, not for the baptists who’ve joined the mob from righteous motives, but for boot-leggers making a killing off the fixes they’re prescribing to the baptists.

One of those boot-leggers is George Soros, financier and position trader, who stands to gain from the introduction of a Tobin Tax on speculative trading. The Tobin tax is one of the proposals being advocated by  members of the OWS like Arun Gupta, of the Indypendant.**

And as I read, I think I spot another boot-legger’s hand.

In the passage I just quoted, which is from a mainly favorable piece on OWS by Reason Magazine, there is a reference to one of the galvanizing moments for the OWS, the mass arrest of some 700 protestors on Brooklyn Bridge.  Surely a case of police brutality, right? Doesn’t this bolster the case for OWS being just a bunch of disaffected regular people?

Maybe. But then notice that the article mentions that elite bank JP Morgan  has been making enormous donations to the NY Police Dept:

“Wall Street’s own JP Morgan Chase made a $4.6 million donation to the New York Police Department, slated to cover future expenditures on things like “security monitoring software.” It was the largest donation in New York City Police Foundation history,:

Notice that according to the website of JPM, the donations have been made starting in 2010, which means they were made over the period of a year. However, the news was reported on October 1, on a number of blogs, as being “recent”.  Just a hasty error, multiplied by the blogosphere, or something deliberate?

It seems legitimate to wonder if JP Morgan didn’t make  the donation way back in 2010, anticipating some violence.

Obviously, Reason Magazine is mentioning it to show the influence the financial industry has over  the NY police department. That also goes to undermine Breitbart’s email revelations,  apparently procured via infiltration, and in alliance with professional security, if not with the police and FBI themselves.

But is Reason Magazine warning us in this piece, or setting the stage for more polarized debate?

I ask this because there’s an element of pre-planning to the whole thing:

First. If you go back to the passage about the arrests and read the description of what happened, it looks like the protesters were explicitly permitted to do what they did, when they were suddenly cordoned off. Sounds like some kind of entrapment,  just from the reports of the incident, like this one at Cityroom blogs at The New York Times.

Next. The emails that Andrew Breitbart and Thomas Ryan (the security pro Breitbart hired) got by infiltrating the demonstration (I’ve deleted the link to the mails, since they were private), show there was some staging going on by the protesters themselves. They were trying to put women and children in front and were actively looking for non-whites to join them.

Three. Why would the police arrest a prominently placed free-lance reporter for the New York Times, who is also a graduate of the hedge-fund industry (and Soros)- funded Columbia Journalism Review, (which is a big supporter of the speculator-bank mafia), and a graduate of Cambridge, home of the globalist think-tank “civil society” brigade?

Are the police that dumb? Are they being provocative? Doesn’t this make for just the kind of outrage that generates media attention, public outcries, more sound and fury, and, eventually, demands for expanded security and police?

Could it be that there is some kind of staging of resistance and opposition going on, which will enable the intelligence and security services to both monitor who joins OWS as well as provoke clashes that will enable reactive legislation? All that will most likely increase central control, and may even provide the excuse for the deployment of drones to kill American citizens on American soil.

Four. Read the passage above and notice how some of these concerns emerge in the article. The drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki is referenced, as well as the arrival of a SWAT team during the execution of a man in Georgia whose guilt had not been established.

Five Breitbart reports that three months ago, the CIA began working at the New York Police department, in a move that is unprecedented, since by law, the CIA cannot spy on Americans. The officer is an experienced officer who ran operations in Jordan and Pakistan, a bizarre work history for assignment to a municipal department, says Breitbart. The last time the CIA was used on American soil, he adds, was just after 9-11, where they created a furor by monitoring large sections of the population based on ethnicity, rather than on credible evidence of wrong-doing.

At Wired, Spencer Ackerman reports the government’s development of a miniature drone called Switchblade that is big enough to fit into a backpack. Instead of carrying a missile, the mini-drone will be deployed as a missile.

Reason Magazine has a history of infiltration and use by the CIA (Operation Mockingbird). Are they just reporting here, or are they setting the stage for something?

I believe the second interpretation is the right one.

My guess is that OccupyWall Street is intended to be the backdrop against which the world, watching it unfold on its TV screens, will witness the globalist regime turn on its own citizens with the threat of violence.

A kind of Homeland shock-and-awe.

[Added: I’m not saying there will necessarily be violence. I am saying the imagery is intended to show the “fist” and evoke a sense of awe toward the globalist regime]

During the course of the unfolding, it will become clear that American empire is only  part of the globalist regime, and that that part is being prepared for its end.

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**Notice that Arun Gupta is under no illusion about which side of OWS he should locate the middle-class. The opposite side.