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Social web sites are monitored for information on planned activities, when, and who's involved. DHS said "(s)ocial media and the organic emergence of online communities have driven the rapid expansion of the OWS movement."
The report ended, saying:
"The growing support for the OWS movement has expanded the protests' impact and increased the potential for violence."
"While the peaceful nature of the protests has served so far to mitigate their impact, larger numbers and support from groups such as Anonymous substantially increase the risk for potential incidents and enhance the potential security risk to critical infrastructure (CI)."
"The continued expansion of these protests also places an increasingly heavy burden on law enforcement and movement organizers to control protesters. As the primary target of the demonstrations, financial services stands the sector most impacted by the OWS protests."
"Due to the location of the protests in major metropolitan areas, heightened and continuous situational awareness for security personnel across all CI sectors is encouraged."
OWS growth and survival depends on confronting hardball government tactics effectively. It's also about disassociating from political Washington. Democrats are as venal as Republicans.
Obama's DHS and FBI target local groups. Bipartisan complicity supports it. So do labor bosses and other alleged allies.
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