UPDATE 2:38PM PST: In the face of the LAPD's apparent refusal to make a legal place for the occupation, a number of people from Occupy Los Angeles have been in contact with members of the city council in an effort to remove barriers to a peaceful protests. It was raised at the city council meeting earlier today and as I write this we are awaiting the outcome of an inter-Departmental meeting between the LAPD, General Services and the City Attorney's office to see what accommodation the City of Los Angeles will make for its citizens. Much earlier today Sarah Brennan from Councilmember Richard Alarcon's office called me asking how the Councilmember could show his support. I said the best thing he could do now would be to help us secure the legal right to peacefully protest at city hall. I have just received a copy of the letter below which makes me very happy and frankly, it's not often that I am happy with a Los Angeles City Councilmember. However, we await the outcome of the meeting.
[click image to view enlarged in browser] <http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6198585879_34eaba5e8d_o.jpg> Memo of support for OccupyLA from Los Angeles Co ---------- Anonymous Launches #OpOrwellRewind to Support #OccupyWallStreet Written by: AlbaandOmegle on September 20, 2011. Greetings and salutations, Our respects to the wealthy who have the talent and the resources to make a community thrive. An honorable mention to those in power who have the talent and the opportunities to inspire others. At this time we Anons are supporting and wishing you do well. However, we have a stern message for those who are addicted to risk. They have resources and they have opportunities but they have not an ounce of talent nor do they appreciate hard work. As we have engaged in #OccupyWallStreet, we have seen more evidence of a disturbing condition. Those who are trusted with the safety of the people are committing violent crimes against citizens in the name of safety. How can this be? It is tempting to blame the nearest perpetrator and be seduced by limp 60s and 90s activism memes. You saw him hit that person. Hes the guilty one. Perhaps, you can write a letter to your public official. Maybe you can display your anger where the offender cannot avoid it. You might even start a protest. But as we have seen with Operation Orlando, Operation Fullerton, Operation BART, and others this is a common problem. Public officials cover their mistakes with fake supporters. Police officers continue to abuse the public with impunity. Civil Rights violations continue to be validated by the blanket of concern for public safety. There is a problem with a simple analysis. It does not explain how this behavior has become so common. Naturally, Anons have been looking at the news of the last 10 years and the history of our communities and countries for the last few decades and a pattern emerges. A superstructure seems to be imposed upon us. And it seems to feed on the pain of the oppressor as well as the oppressed. This is an interesting situation. The fact that these problems persist may be partly explained by the hypothesis that we are in fact not hitting the root. Without spending too much time on theories let us get to the point. We are living in a Security State. This is a far more dangerous climate than the Police States of the past because the curtain can be pulled back when its services are needed or drawn in front of the true machinery when its work is over. Witness how peaceful protests were allowed to proceed even to the point when people played frisbie. Then suddenly on the morning of September 20, 2011, police rush protestors. They take protective tarps for the people to get out of the rain. They confiscate energy and cameras. How is it possible that a police force can go so quickly from a peaceful protective agency to a violent oppressor? Is there a switch of some kind? To be able to change so drastically either implies deception, lack of character and honor, or complete indifference to the orders given. Perhaps a little of all three. We have identified a superstructure comprised of banks and subservient corporations which have conditioned our police to go against human instincts of compassion and respect and caused them to be extended fingers of brutality against us from a distance. We resist, we blog, we scream out, and we wonder why we are not heard. Well we shall be heard as we now know both the nature and the identity of our oppressors. We are announcing Operation Orwell Rewind. This is both a support operation to assist and encourage protesters involved with #OccupyWallStreet and also an offensive against those we see as the true villains. We will associate every incident of brutality and infringement of rights not with the police officers but the bankers and military contractors who radicalized police against the people. One of these clubs is the financiers club and the other hitman. Imagine if you will how much easier it is to poison those who are trusted with safety by training them with brutal techniques against the people than to carry out individual attacks against communities. We are on to the real threat to freedom and they know it. It is not the wealthy. They build. It is not the powerful. They plan. It is the paranoid, restless, reckless, and arrogant who are addicted to risk for they have no substance to stand on. They are parasites. The parasites steal and murder to gain far more. They conspire to destroy indiscriminately for, as the saying goes, just another hit. They are mad ideologues who promote racism and other divisive ideas to keep their potential competition and critics unable to gather strength. They are the enemy, not because they oppose the people, but because their lack of substance causes them to see anyone with more vitality, humanity, and ability as a threat to their existence. All the creative work of society is laid waste in the blink of an eye to buy themselves a thin moments rest. We will publish the names of banks, corporations, and institutions that have sucked on the blood of the people. We will provide aid to creators and protesters. We will expose corruption. We will educate the people as to the use of emergency law powers which bypass checks and balances. On our way to dismantling this destructive cult with our creative disruption, we will make demands in support of #OccupyWallStreet as a courtesy, but we are prepared to render these parasites irrelevant by providing alternatives to their abuse. We give fair warning. 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