Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

[reACTIONary]

36. OK, so I read the article...

...the information about the FBI coordinating with representatives of the banks was in the American MSM article I read some time ago.

What's new here is the hysterical hyperbole of a pundit with an extreme point of view. The occupy movement was (almost despite itself) a rather successful effort and the response to it was not a "corporate-state repression of dissent".

It seems reasonable to me that information about a series of mass protests with a (legitimate) grudge against wall street banks would be shared with the targets so they could protect themselves against trespassing and vandalism. In fact, it may even be helpful for the protest, since lowering the visibility of the more violent, extremist elements in the movement gives it more legitimacy in the eyes of the average citizen.

The one point that she made that I thought was all-to-true was the fact that a non-profit had to pursue this, rather than a regular news organization. Unfortunately, the economic demise of newspapers has really cut into their budgets and they don't have the same resources for investigative journalism that they used to.