The Big Picture — Why Occupy Movement Was Treated As Terrorism

Barry Ritholz crossposts Washington's Blog documenting the government targeting Occupy protests as terrorism. The government's report on the Black Friday boycott reads like The Onion but it's not satire. These security people are dangerously crazy, and the Constitution obviously means nothing to them.

The intelligence reporting and communications apparatus was in full throttle over potential Occupy Black Friday boycotts. One sample document issued from the Baltimore police shows a distribution list ranging from the Maryland Fusion Center, the FBI, the DHS, the Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network, the Secret Service, the NYPD and other city and state law enforcement, the manager of corporate security for an energy company, university personnel, and the Federal Reserve.

The “counter-terrorism” documents contain multiple references to Black Friday boycotts as well as potential negative impacts on retails sales.

 Corporate statism.

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