Bennett reports: "Seattle photographer Joshua Trujillo captured what may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest - an elderly woman being led away from the mayhem, her face covered with pepper spray. A pregnant woman and a priest were also hit with pepper spray during a march on Tuesday night."
84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed by Seattle police when her group was pinned in by the police and nearly trampled. (photo: Joshua Trujillo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
84-Year-Old Woman Now the Pepper-Sprayed Face of Occupy Seattle
16 November 11
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eattle photographer Joshua Trujillo captured what may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest - an elderly woman being led away from the mayhem, her face covered with pepper spray. A pregnant woman and a priest were also hit with pepper spray during a march on Tuesday night. You can see more photos of the confrontation at SeattlePI.com. (More photos here as well.)
The Seattle branch of the Occupy movement, which has been camped out near Seattle Central Community College, held the march in support of the New York camp, which faced a day long eviction battle with the city yesterday. On Monday, Occupy Oakland was the scene of another attempt by police to drive campers out of a city park. There were reports that both Occupy San Francisco and Occupy Cal (on the Berkeley campus of the University of California) are being raided on Wednesday morning. The week of police crackdown comes amid reports that the federal government and is coordinating with multiple on legal strategies that can shut down the Occupy protests.
The woman in the picture is not just any elderly woman, however, as she is well known to Seattle residents. Dorli Rainey is a former school teacher who has been active in local politics since the 1960s. In 2009, she ran for mayor, but eventually dropped out by saying, "I am old and should learn to be old, stay home, watch TV and sit still." We guess she didn't learn.
Rainey emailed The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper, to say she stopped by the march to see what was happening when her group got pinned in by police and nearly trampled in the chaos.
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So . . . our system is sure broke (in multiple ways).
Second --- as long as our system is so broke, there will be others like Monsegur who will take his place.
So we really ought to fix it so that whatever Anonymous does (if indeed this was part of Anonymous) doesn't have to be done anonymously.
Will this be the future?
"In the GDR, there was one Stasi officer or informant for every sixty-three people. If part-time informers are included, some estimates have the ratio as high as one informer for every 6.5 citizens." In his book, Stasi: The East German Secret Police, John O. Koehler agreed that when you add in the estimated part-time IMs, "the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens."
Oh, and they called themselves PATRIOTS - homeland/father land security?
The same is now in the USA.
Wonder what he is seeing in the mirror these days?
This should teach the rest of you that your security wasn't good enough.
No doubt there's light at the end of the tunnel now.
The War on Hacking continues...
It is the FBI which needs its head chopped off. It is a GESTAPO and does not belong in a democratic society.
All power to Anonymous and LulzSec. I hope they hack the FBI to death -- chop it off the internet. Download millions of FBI files and publish them on the net. Then we will learn who committed most of the crimes in the US and how people were framed. We might even learn the secrets of 9-11.
In 1972, in Puerto Rico, an ounce of good pot was $25. There was little crime, very little heroin or cocaine, no speed. The drug "underworld" was quite openly understood. The island was divided into regions, each under the control of a "Don". The Dons, or Capos, were well known, lived in fairly fancy houses, and each had his own "army" of bodyguards and distributors. There was little to no drug related violence and no poaching on territory. The "drugs" (if you want to call pot a "drug") were of good quality and honest weight. Anybody who cared to have some could get what they wanted with no hassle. The more aware citizens who did not indulge had respect for the system and the way it was organized. The police only paid attention to people who got out of line, including drunks. It was a peaceful time.
Then the US DEA and FBI showed up and started talking about "cleaning up the island". They said they knew who the "Kingpins" were. Big deal, so did anybody with any interest in the subject. But they got the ambitions straight folks in the government all stirred up and antsy for more power, and the local government agreed to the project.
Big raids ensued. One after another the Dons went down, with some of their top lieutenants. The "Project" was finished in about a year. (Continued)
Israel with Microsoft engineered this control software against Iran centrifuges.
The same software is used in hospital equipment, power plants, nuclear plants?
And of course NOT difficult to replicate.
But, still like the music though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoDt-MxhHg
Anybody in such a group (pot farmers come to mind) has to take a long hard look at any prospective new member, and be assured that they have the guts and willpower to stand up under pressure.
Anonymous has not realized its full importance, and has not yet taken steps to be more secure. It has been largely a bunch of rather juvenile idealistic amateurs. Great idea, needed in this age of excessively secretive power groups, but it is time to get a little more real.
Professionals in places where the threat of torture is present carry and use suicide methods as a final out.
The struggle for freedom against repressive governments such as ours (think drug war, which is government terrorism against us citizens, think the cruel INS detentions and deportations, think the latest laws limiting freedom and threats of incarceration without remedy) is not a joke. They have the guns and the prisons.