A Taxpayer Funded Center to Spy on Us, and NSA has taken Full Advantage

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Vatic Note:  Its called FASCISM, and has it taken over already?  Its called fascism when the government is controlled by the corporations and works for them.  You know that now you do not have to pay your taxes once they do this, since they no  longer work for us and we no longer have to finance their facism.  Keep that in mind.  Do not let fear interfere with your integrity.  Its not worth it and it never works anyway.

Your job is not secure if we let them get away with this.   Remember Soros set this entire protest up.  Why?  So they could identify the potential trouble makers and leaders and yank them.  Anyone seen or heard from those hundreds who have been arrested so far?

The FASCISTS ARE SITTING WITH THE COPS TO DETERMINE WHO WILL BE ARRESTED AND WHO WILL NOT.  Don't you find it interesting that criminals that have stolen trillions of dollars are sitting with cops and telling them who to arrest for not committing a crime, rather for engaging in their legal right to protest????

I find it insulting and  criminal which means if these cops are doing this, they need to be identified for future prosecution as they are aiding and abetting a crime against the governing structure of our country.   Foreign occupiers should be kicked out yesterday.  I swear, we need to do an Iceland. 

A Taxpayer Funded Center to Spy on Us
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2011/11/21/a-tax-payer-funded-center-to-spy-on-us/

By: Validated Independent News

In Pam Martens article “Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center” she discusses how recently it came out that there has been more than $150 million in taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in “lower Manhattan where Wall Street firms get to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy on law abiding citizens”. In line with recently dug up documents from 2005, the planning for this facility dates back more than six years.

It was found that “NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised Edward Forst, a Goldman Sachs’ Executive Vice President at the time, that the NYPD “is committed to the development and implementation of a comprehensive security plan for Lower Manhattan …” Also according to these 2005 documents “Goldman’s deal included $1.65 billion in Liberty Bonds, up to $160 million in sales tax abatements for construction materials and tenant furnishings, and the deal-breaker requirement that a security plan that gave it a seat at the NYPD’s Coordination Center would be in place by no later than December 31, 2009.”

Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center will be running and observing 24-7 with more than 3000 live video feeds of the people on the streets.  In addition to these cameras, “the NYPD either has or is working on face recognition software which could track individuals based on facial features.”

This project has been funded by “New York City taxpayers as well as all U.S. taxpayers through grants from the Federal Department of Homeland Security.” The NYCLU has written letters to the Commissioner about the fact that there have been no public hearings about this even though there have been “massive expenditures of public money.”

In this letter to the commissioner, “the NYCLU also noted in its letter that it rejected the privacy guidelines for the surveillance operation that the NYPD had posted on its web site for public comment, since there had been no public hearings to formulate these guidelines. It noted further that “the guidelines do not limit police surveillance and databases to suspicious activity . . . there is no independent oversight or monitoring of compliance with the guidelines.” In a response from the commissioner he remarked that the privacy guidelines were written by Jessica Tisch “who has played a significant role in developing the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center.”

The article closes in saying “Wall Street is infamous for perverting everything it touches: from Nasdaq stock market, to stock research issued to the public, to auction securities, mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddic Mac, credit default swaps with AIG, and mortgage securitizations.” Also that if there had in fact been a hearing held to vote for this surveillance center, someone might have pondered what was to prevent Wall Street from tracking its employee whistleblowers heading off to the FBI offices or meeting with a reporter.

Title: Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center
Publication: Truthout; Sunday September 23, 2011
Author: Pam Martens
URL: http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-firms-spy-protesters-tax-funded-center/1319394553
Faculty Evaluator: Stephen Sax, RBC Wealth Management
Student Researcher: Chelane Beavers, Sonoma State University

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