In one of the most significant developments in the OWS movement so far we have the cops in Albany New York refusing orders from the mayor and the state governor to move against the occupiers. This is of the most extreme importance. If the state apparatus cracks in their hands then the corporate elite and their capitalist system will suffer some severe blows. They will have nobody to defend them and their property. Along with this we have the Iraqi vet seriously injured in Oakland. He was sent to fight for the oil and wealth that has been cornered by the top 1%, he served two tours, and then comes back home and his skull is fractured by officers of the US state apparatus who have been armed to the teeth and psyched up to fight the so called war on terror under the so called patriot act on behalf of the 1%. The capitalist class here in the US is in danger of making a major blunder. In their extreme over confidence provoking a movement which will change the entire political and economic landscape in a way that would not be in their favor.
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Albany Police refused to enforce a curfew by Albany Mayor, Gerald Jennings and Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The police have refused to interfere with the 700 peaceful protesters who moved to and assembled on grounds owned by the city at a portion of the park prohibited for protest. Amongst the protesters were families with children and elderly persons who in the eyes of Albany Police and State Troopers were not committing serious acts of trespass and this low level of offence was according to
Times Union [6] the reason that orders by the Governor and Mayor were disobeyed.
On State Police spokesperson said:
“We were ready to make arrests if needed, but these people complied with our orders,”
“We don’t have those resources, and these people were not causing trouble,”
“The bottom line is the police know policing, not the governor and not the mayor.”
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