A classic idea. There’s also Anti-Monopoly. It’s real, I’ve seen it in my local WH Smiths…
So… Postsecret got a postcard with an image of Pepper Spraying Cop doing what he did, with the simple message: “I think they deserved it”. Naturally, the comments under the repost to Facebook are many.
In support, worryingly.
The above is my response to it all.
![pantslessprogressive:
Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD
Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he’s done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads “a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world.” But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers’ social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.
As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.
What may much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI, including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI’s New York-based cyber security team. […]
But Ryan didn’t just tip off the authorities. He was also giving information to companies as well. When protesters discussed demonstrating in front of morning shows likeToday and Good Morning America, Ryan quickly forwarded the thread to Mark Farrell, the chief security officer at Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal. [read more]
Thanks to this guy, bank customers can no longer close their accounts. Seriously:
The banks have decided that they will not interact with protesters, but will customers. Closing your account is considered an act of protest, so you can withdraw money up until it would empty the account, at which point you are considered a protester.
I repeat: the corporations are flexing their muscles, and showing how invincible they feel. Politicians take note, they are mocking you and your voters: what will you do?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt6lijpY0E1qzr73ro1_500.png)
Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD
Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he’s done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads “a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world.” But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers’ social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.
As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.
What may much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI, including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI’s New York-based cyber security team. […]
But Ryan didn’t just tip off the authorities. He was also giving information to companies as well. When protesters discussed demonstrating in front of morning shows likeToday and Good Morning America, Ryan quickly forwarded the thread to Mark Farrell, the chief security officer at Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal. [read more]
Thanks to this guy, bank customers can no longer close their accounts. Seriously:
The banks have decided that they will not interact with protesters, but will customers. Closing your account is considered an act of protest, so you can withdraw money up until it would empty the account, at which point you are considered a protester.
I repeat: the corporations are flexing their muscles, and showing how invincible they feel. Politicians take note, they are mocking you and your voters: what will you do?
(via pantslessprogressive)
