Mayors of several cities coordinated night raids on OWS movement

Thanks to a friend for sending me this e-mail:  Why does this story not surprise me? ( taken from Police Crackdowns On OWS Coordinated Among Mayors, FBI, DHS  By Juan Cole http://www.countercurrents.org/cole161111.htm )  ********* Oakland Mayor Jean Quan let slip in an interview with the BBC that she had been on a conference call with the mayors of 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy Wall Street movement. That is, municipal authorities appear to have been conspiring to deprive Americans of their first amendment rights to freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances.  Likewise, A Homeland Security official let it slip in a phone interview that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had been strategizing with cities on how to shut down OWS protests. The FBI is said to have advised using zoning ordinances and curfew regulations, and to stage the crackdown with massive police force at a time when the press was not around to cover the crackdown. ********** Our government at work, trying to make sure the 99% shuts up and gets in line.  Fat chance.    This article is also particularly good.. http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto161111.htm