WTF?!? White House told authorities not to crack down on 'Occupy' protesters, documents show

White House told authorities not to crack down on 'Occupy' protesters, documents show

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published August 08, 2012

| FoxNews.com

The Obama administration told law enforcement authorities to go easy on Occupy Wall Street protesters, even though they were violating local laws, according to documents obtained by watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Emails from the General Services Administration show that the federal agency, acting on orders from the White House, told federal law enforcement authorities in Portland, Ore., not to enforce curfews on protesters camped out on federal property. JudicialWatch.org obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request lodged last year.

In one exchange from Nov. 6, 2011, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the GSA discuss a group of 11 protesters camped out at the federally-owned Terry Schrunk Plaza.

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"They have chained themselves to a large drum filled with concrete,” reads an email from Department of Homeland Security/National Protection and Programs Directorate Chief of Staff Caitlin Durkovich to GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Robert Peck. “GSA controls the permits and has asked FPS [Federal Protective Services] not to enforce the curfew at park and the prohibition on overnight encampments…Our FPS Commander in Portland says they are standing down and following GSA’s request to only intervene if there is a threat to public safety,” she added in the email.

Peck -- who later resigned amid revelations his agency held lavish junkets at taxpayers' expense -- replied: “Caitlin: yes, that is our position; it’s been vetted with our administrator and Michael Robertson, our chief of staff, and we have communicated with the WH [White House], which has afforded us the discretion to fashion our approach to Occupy issues…The arrests last week were carried out despite our request that the protesters be allowed to remain and to camp overnight…”

The arrests Peck referred to were carried out by Portland police in riot gear. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the emails show the White House was protecting Occupy protesters.

"We now have a new GSA scandal -- one that involves the Obama White House," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "These documents clearly show that federal agencies colluded with the Obama White House to allow the Occupy Wall Street protesters to violate the law with impunity. These documents tell us that the GSA and DHS can't be relied upon to protect federal workers or property."

In a written statement sent to FoxNews.com, a spokeswoman for the GSA responded, "The General Services Administration worked closely with the Portland Police Bureau and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) in maintaining the health and safety of the general public, protesters and federal employees during last year's Portland Occupy protests- however FPS and local law enforcement had the best understanding of the situation on the ground in Terry Schrunk Park, and determined the necessary action. "

The Occupy Wall Street movement began in lower Manhattan last September as a protest of wealth inequality and government corruption. The protester took inspiration for their protests from the Arab Spring and set up an encampment in Zuccotti Park near the Financial District.

The protests had spread with encampments set up in nearly every major city in North America and Europe.

Occupy Portland saw some of the more violent protests of the national movement. A week before the email exchange, 25 demonstrators were arrested after they refused to leave Jamison Square in the Pearl District after the park was closed at midnight. The arrests were the conclusion of an intense standoff that lasted until the early hours of the morning.
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They were probably "smiling"

Without the rule of law this country done for. It's only a matter of time.

Grantbo said:

Without the rule of law this country done for. It's only a matter of time.

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Oh they will apply the law, only selectively. Use it to bludgeon their enemies like the Tea Party but selectively ignore it for the Occupiers.

Corruption is what you have when you don't apply the law equally.

I was getting ready to post this as a thread, I'll post it here, a bit of other info added perhaps:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...-enforce-the-law-against-occupy-protestors-a/

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

General Services Administration – with the Blessing of the Obama White House – Tells Law Enforcement to “Stand Down” and Not Enforce the Law Against Occupy Protestors According to Records Uncovered by Judicial Watch

(Washington DC)-– Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) indicating that the General Services Administration (GSA), with the blessing of the Obama White House, instructed law enforcement officers to “stand down” and not arrest “Occupy Portland” protestors who were in violation of the law.

The records, obtained pursuant to a November 11, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, include internal DHS correspondence. One November 6, 2011, e-mail exchange between DHS/National Protection and Programs Directorate Chief of Staff Caitlin Durkovich and GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Robert Peck (who has since been fired) specifically related to Occupy Portland protests taking place on federal property in Portland:

Peck responds:


Occupy Portland is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been beset with accusations of “crimes and dangerous behavior” during its protests.

According to the Oregonian, the week before this email exchange, on October 30, 2011, “Twenty-five Occupy Portland demonstrators were arrested…after refusing to leave Jamison Square. The arrests capped an intense hours-long standoff between police and dozens of protesters who refused to leave the Pearl District park after it was declared closed at midnight. Officers, some in riot gear and others on horses, faced off with protesters who remained in the square, despite being ordered to leave.” The protestors were reportedly arrested on accusations of “trespassing, interfering with a police officer and disorderly conduct for the noise complaints from neighbors.”

Robert Peck was at the center of a scandal involving the GSA in 2010, where the agency spent $823,000 on a lavish Las Vegas “training conference” that featured a clown, a mind reader and a $31,208 reception. Peck was fired as a result of the incident. Peck, who has donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates, including Barack Obama, was previously implicated in an unrelated GSA scandal for reportedly brokering a controversial lease deal for a Democratic donor and friend of former Vice President Al Gore. Per The Washington Examiner’s Mark Tapscott: “In Peck’s first go-round at GSA, controversy was sparked when it was learned that excessively high rent was being paid by the FCC to the owner of a building who also happened to be a Democratic donor. Peck was the official who made the deal possible.”

Peck was deposed by Judicial Watch today in a separate lawsuit on behalf of Linda Shenwick, a GSA whistleblower who Peck and others allegedly retaliated against because of Ms. Shenwick’s opposition to wasteful spending, such as parties, that have now caused so much controversy.

“We now have a new GSA scandal – one that involves the Obama White House,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These documents clearly show that federal agencies colluded with the Obama White House to allow the Occupy Wall Street protestors to violate the law with impunity. These documents tell us that the GSA and DHS can’t be relied upon to protect federal workers or property.”

We are being ruled by outright criminals.

Irony is, IIRC it was Occupy protestors who broke out the windows of O's re-election headquarters in Oakland the other day.

I hit a link on Stan Deyo's archive site that wasn't archived, it was live radio, the host was rabidly antisemetic, but had an interesting talk about the Bolshevik revolution and how it came about in Russia-it was done exactly as it is now being done here to the letter. The OWS movement and the gov't support regardless of law was a big part of the riots and revolution that ended up in over 100 million deaths of Christians in Russia, right down to the class warfare used to separate the citizens and justify the slaughter. The OWS is the right arm of oboingo and globalists.

Hmmm.... even if Bams told them to go easy, a lot of the time the cops did not.

They beat many people, sprayed girls already behind fencing, bashed people with batons over the head (Skrillex, for one); many other things. They dragged them off to the pokey bodily, and sprayed them in the face with pepper spray. It was NASTY. The cops even did stuff in Canada that I didn't post much about. If that all was going easy, I'd hate to see what their REAL intention was:

A lot of cops are thugs and brutes. Toughies in the chest.

That B&W picture of the "officer" spraying the prone person is faked. Not only is his leg clearly visible in the reverse image in color, there are issues too numerous to mention in that propaganda "photo."

sash said:

That B&W picture of the "officer" spraying the prone person is faked. Not only is his leg clearly visible in the reverse image in color, there are issues too numerous to mention in that propaganda "photo."

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That was one I had saved.

Here are some that other people saved:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/violent-pictures-from-occupy-wall-street-protests

And this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...d-brutality-during-occupy-wall-street/260295/

http://observer.com/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-update-alleged-police-brutality-caught-on-film-video/

There's plenty more where those came from. Don't make me post them.