Financial Gang Banker Giants Put NYPD on Payroll

Wielding his nightstick with both hands like a club, a NYPD 'white shirt' lashes out wildly
at Occupy Wall Street protesters, 10/05/11. (photo: occupycolleges.org)

By Pam Martens, CounterPunch | 11 October 10

Who do the White-Shirt Police report to at Occupy Wall Street protests?

ideos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying and brutalizing peaceful, nonthreatening protestors attempting to take part in the Occupy Wall Street marches. Corporate media are reporting that these white shirts are police supervisors as opposed to rank and file. Recently discovered documents suggest something else may be at work.

If you're a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public's radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It's called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York's finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.

The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs and the ability to arrest. The officer is indemnified by the taxpayer, not the corporation.

Reporter Infiltrates Protest to Incite DC Riot to Write About It

Patrick Howley of the conservative magazine American Spectator is seen skulking behind a
burly protester at the National Air and Space Museum, 10/08/11.(Cheryl Biren/opednews.com)

By Dylan Stableford, The Cutline/Y!News | 11 October 11 

A reporter for the American Spectator - who says he "infiltrated" a group of Washington, DC, protesters "in order to mock and undermine" their cause in his magazine - claims he helped incite a riot at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday afternoon and was pepper-sprayed in the process.

Patrick Howley, listed on Spectator's online masthead as an assistant editor, described the incident in a post ("Standoff in DC") on the publication's website. Howley claims that as the 100 or so protesters - affiliated with the ongoing "Stop the Machine" protest - approached the museum, "all of a sudden liberal shoes started marching less forcefully" - but not him:

Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement?

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
TARPLEY.net | October 7, 2011

Media spokesmen for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations claimed that their operation is totally transparent, with everything subject to democratic discussion in a general assembly of all comers. But eyewitness reports from experienced observers on the ground in lower Manhattan indicate a much different reality behind these bland assurances. Forces appeared to be at work behind the scenes to manipulate the protest movement into a posture of supporting the presidential candidacy of Wall Street puppet Obama.

Eyewitness observers suggest that the deliberations of the general assembly are largely a diversion, and that real power is being increasingly concentrated in the hands of about 20 mysterious and anonymous individuals who appear to make up a kind of covert steering committee that pulls the strings on the general assembly, or else goes around it completely. The members of this cadre of mysterious operatives are not as young as the average demonstrator. The secret leadership is made up of people ranging in age from 25 to over 40, with the older ones occupying the key posts. Many of them appear to be active duty or recently retired military.

A Covert Steering Committee Behind the Scenes?

Attempts to ascertain the names of the behind-the-scenes leaders are met with stonewalling. When pressed to reveal her identity, one female leader gave her name as “Mary MIA.” Another gave his name as “Tony POW.”

If the leaders of OWS want to be transparent, let them make public at least the full names of the people who are actually running the show. No one wants to join a movement with anonymous leaders.