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He's a serial liar. He solely supports wealth, power, and imperial dominance. He deplores rule of law principles, democratic values, and social justice. He's ravaging the world one country at a time and waging war at home against dissent. His new indefinite military detention law targets OWS, other like-minded activists, and anyone threatening US hegemony.
Washington began aiding cities confront OWS protesters violently before it passed. FBI officials are involved on tactics and perhaps directly. They advised that evictions be conducted late night or pre-dawn when local press coverage is absent or minimal.
Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service arrested an Occupy Portland photographer. Moreover, federal and undercover police provocateurs often disrupt public protests violently.
Department of Defense training manuals call protests "low-level terrorism." An FBI memo says peace protesters are "terrorists." Throughout his tenure, Obama's been more active destroying human rights and civil liberties than Bush II.
Journalists are singled out and targeted. On January 7, Press TV said nearly 40 journalists have been arrested since September protests began. In early January, technicians working for Global Revolution were arrested for streaming live OWS protest video.
Journalists have been harassed, arrested, handcuffed, and beaten for doing their job. Free Press.net's Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director Josh Stearns reported last November that 10 New York-based journalists were violently arrested in an early morning raid.
They were trying to cover Zuccotti Park evictions. Police accused them of trespassing. They all had valid NYPD-issued press passes.
In response, last November, New York-based journalists formed the Coalition for the First Amendment . It consists of 13 membership organizations representing mainly New York City journalists.
International Press Institute (IPI) executive director Alison Bethel McKenzie said:
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