New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent.
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall ““ so mystifying at the time ““ was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves ““ was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media outlets (why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?), filed this request.
Whatever were they thinking???
The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties
By Patrick T. Conley, U. S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original States
https://books.google.com/books?id=6yyQXl4LmdAC&pg=PA215&dq=new+york+bill+or+rights&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cZLpUMnJKKi40AG51YDQAg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAg#v=snippet&q=arm&f=false