Occupy Wall Street

[Riot]

Originally Posted by jms62

The main thing coming out of this is that the middle class is pissed off and government and Wallstreet types are on notice. We have the ability to assemble in large numbers and if you keep this **** up maybe the next time we won't be so peaceful. That is the message I am getting.

Nobody is promoting violence, in fact, they are specifically telling people to not be violence, to be peaceful at all times.

There has already been one documented case (video) of a right-wingnut agent provocateur (at the Smithsonian incident in DC) - and the fool bragged about it on his employers magazine blog. Then the altered it, then they took it off the site completely. But of course, everyone got screenshots. He'll be arrested. He claimed to be the only one who broke through the police line and got inside.

He got tourists pepper-sprayed.

The non-American media has so much better coverage of OWS than the American media:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...?newsfeed=true

A conservative US news magazine has come under fire after one of its journalists boasted of being an agent provocateur at a clash between protesters and security guards in Washington.

The incident, in which guards used pepper spray on protesters trying to enter the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, was widely reported to be linked to the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Patrick Howley, an assistant editor at the American Spectator, wrote over the weekend that he had infiltrated the protest group in order to discredit it.

He said: "As far as anyone knew I was part of this cause — a cause that I had infiltrated the day before in order to mock and undermine in the pages of the American Spectator — and I wasn't giving up before I had my story."

However, Howley's breathless account of his role as provocateur – which goes on to condemn the protesters' "lack of nerve to confront authority", and his own determination to escalate the protest further as he rushed past security guards into the museum – has since been altered.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...n-DC-%28NEW%29

Conservative Magazine Brags of its Agent Provocateurs Role in Provoking Police Action in DC