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General News    H4'ed 10/25/11

Re: War Zone 101 - Oakland, Ca

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Message John Stauffer
"Heading to work from SF to Richmond at 6:45AM " KPFA first report of Police Raid at "Occupy Oakland" " detour to the only section of Oakland that I'm familiar with " walking around the 2-to-3 block Police Perimeter around the "Occupy Oakland" City Hall Encampment " finding the only direct access to the camp through City Center Shopping Mall by 7:15AM "

" at least 100 cop cars from every East Bay municipality - Berkeley / Fremont / Hayward / Oakland / Pleasanton (on 1 block) -- several hundred police -- helmets, face shields, grinning with pride & no eye-contact faces, toting synthetic bullet, semi-automatic air rifles "

" with the exception of the one, lone, wood-framed structure for First-Aid and a small, half-standing blue tent, an encampment so thoroughly and wantenly destroyed that nothing rises more than 6in. above the ground in a tangled mess of nylon fabric, aluminum poles, cloths, pots and pans, and unrecognizable personal belongings spilling onto the west-side sidewalk "

Clearing debris flickr image By TheBlackHour.com

" this was not the eviction of some protesters causing ineffective and unresponsive politicians to feel uncomfortable as elections approach " this was the massacre of civil liberties and the annihilation of a village by an out-of-control military force " this was an invasion of America by those paid to protect Americans " and everyone of those elected / appointed / hired civil servants responsible for these actions is nothing less than a Traitor "

"everyone of us should be ashamed that our tax dollars are used to support these individuals and their actions " they serve someone, but they definitely don't serve the 99% Disaffected -- possibly the 1% Corporatists " it's time to Elect Replacements until Elected Officials actually Serve the People " Fire the Appointed until Their efforts are for the Common Good " Eliminate All Benefits for the Hired until they suffer the same economic / social pain of those they act against "

" it's all about Corporations " it's time to remove their "Veil", it's time to make Company Management & Every Shareholder equally responsible for Company Actions " any actions against the best interests of the America's 99% and everyone of them suffer the dictates of a society based on equality and justice

" it's long overdue that Americans use their Vote, use their Dollars, use their Collective Strength to Boycott / Protest / Strike until the current system is crippled into submission and the re-establishment of All of Our Rights -- both Political and Economic -- in perpituity!

" you've got to see the "holocaust" in Oakland in order to accept that Americans are capable of inflicting such damage and harm on other Americans " it's time to to take a stand, it's time to shout "Not Again " Not This Time!"

- John

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