(2011-11-28) Occupy Crackdown

There has been a lot of Police State crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street activities across the country.

Naomi Wolf has a nicely linked summary.

• She also includes a 3-point Plausible Promise: The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Bill Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks. No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.