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Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall St. Library
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Dan Clore
May 26, 2012, 12:15:47 AM5/26/12
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Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library
by Dan Clore
Friday, May 25, 2012
One of the more impressive accomplishments of the Occupy Wall Street
movement was the creation of a People's Library of some 3,600 volumes
donated by members and supporters, available for anyone to borrow free
of charge. The library included not just political works, but all kinds
of reading matter, and included many signed copies donated by authors.
It came as a shock to many literate individuals around the world when
officers in the New York Police Department, in the course of a surprise
nighttime raid on Occupy Wall Street protest park in November 2011,
hauled away the entire Occupy Wall Street Library. Witnesses reported
that police officers threw books into dumpsters along with food, drinks,
garbage, etc. Only about 1,000 of the volumes were ever returned to the
protestors, some 200 of them too damaged to use.
Many activists around the world have been quick to claim malice on the
part of the NYPD, noting that political works, especially copies donated
by sympathetic authors, were particularly unlikely to have been
returned. However, thanks to an anonymous anarchist infiltrator
utilizing reverse COINTELPRO tactics, the truth can be revealed in the
officers' own words.
continued:
http://www.nolanchart.com/article9324-inside-the-nypd-destruction-of-the-occupy-wall-street-library.html
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Dan Clore
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My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
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Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library
by Dan Clore
Friday, May 25, 2012
One of the more impressive accomplishments of the Occupy Wall Street
movement was the creation of a People's Library of some 3,600 volumes
donated by members and supporters, available for anyone to borrow free
of charge. The library included not just political works, but all kinds
of reading matter, and included many signed copies donated by authors.
It came as a shock to many literate individuals around the world when
officers in the New York Police Department, in the course of a surprise
nighttime raid on Occupy Wall Street protest park in November 2011,
hauled away the entire Occupy Wall Street Library. Witnesses reported
that police officers threw books into dumpsters along with food, drinks,
garbage, etc. Only about 1,000 of the volumes were ever returned to the
protestors, some 200 of them too damaged to use.
Many activists around the world have been quick to claim malice on the
part of the NYPD, noting that political works, especially copies donated
by sympathetic authors, were particularly unlikely to have been
returned. However, thanks to an anonymous anarchist infiltrator
utilizing reverse COINTELPRO tactics, the truth can be revealed in the
officers' own words.
continued:
http://www.nolanchart.com/article9324-inside-the-nypd-destruction-of-the-occupy-wall-street-library.html
--
Dan Clore
New book: _Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon_:
http://tinyurl.com/yd3bxkw
My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/3tyj9cq
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"
Steve Hayes
May 26, 2012, 2:09:56 AM5/26/12
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On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:15:47 -0700, Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org>
wrote:
>News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
>
>Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library
>by Dan Clore
>Friday, May 25, 2012
>
>http://www.nolanchart.com/article9324-inside-the-nypd-destruction-of-the-occupy-wall-street-library.html
On the web page it is labelled "satire", which suggests that it didn't really
happen but might have happened.
So before I go spreading false rumours, would you please confirm that this
actually happened and that it is not an "Onion" type article.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
wrote:
>News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
>
>Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library
>by Dan Clore
>Friday, May 25, 2012
>
On the web page it is labelled "satire", which suggests that it didn't really
happen but might have happened.
So before I go spreading false rumours, would you please confirm that this
actually happened and that it is not an "Onion" type article.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Dan Clore
May 27, 2012, 12:40:29 AM5/27/12
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On 5/25/2012 11:09 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:15:47 -0700, Dan
> Clore<cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote:
>
>> News& Views for Anarchists& Activists:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:15:47 -0700, Dan
> Clore<cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote:
>
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
>>
>> Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by
>> Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012
>>
>> http://www.nolanchart.com/article9324-inside-the-nypd-destruction-of-the-occupy-wall-street-library.html
>
> On the web page it is labelled "satire", which suggests that it
> didn't really happen but might have happened.
>
> So before I go spreading false rumours, would you please confirm that
> this actually happened and that it is not an "Onion" type article.
I put it under the topic heading "satire", and gave this note in bold at
>>
>> Inside the NYPD Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library by
>> Dan Clore Friday, May 25, 2012
>>
>> http://www.nolanchart.com/article9324-inside-the-nypd-destruction-of-the-occupy-wall-street-library.html
>
> On the web page it is labelled "satire", which suggests that it
> didn't really happen but might have happened.
>
> So before I go spreading false rumours, would you please confirm that
> this actually happened and that it is not an "Onion" type article.
the end: "Please note that the forgoing is satire, entirely the product
of the author's diseased brain, and any resemblance to actual
individuals or groups is entirely intentional."
I didn't imagine it was necessary to label it satire in the first place.
(Though reality can outpace satire, these days.) Anyway, the first two
paragraphs and first sentence of the third paragraph are entirely
factual, while the rest is the product of my own overactive imagination.
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://tinyurl.com/3tyj9cq
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
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