police force working for wall street

Police force is working for the citizens of the city.

We the citizens should be thrilled that
1 - the police are protecting the businesses that pay big taxes
2 - the businesses of NYC that are being protected are paying additional money towards police protection

Why even post that article, when you get gems like this:
"it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes... really, they are charged with crimes and that's good enough for conviction?

"Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program." Lawsuits spring from anything that lawyers can sue for.

"one insightful member of the NYPD posted the following on a forum: “… regarding the officer working for, and being paid by, some of the richest people and organizations in the City, if not the world, enforcing the mandates of the private employer, and in effect, allowing the officer to become the Praetorian Guard of the elite of the City. And now corruption is no longer a problem. Who are they kidding?”"
Oh, one person said something, ok then

"Just this year, the Department of Justice revealed serious problems with the Paid Detail unit of the New Orleans Police Department. " And the New Orleans Police Department is the same as the NYPD because they both start with the word "New"?

"When the infamously mismanaged Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers, collapsed on September 15, 2008, its bankruptcy filings in 2009 showed it owed money to 21 members of the NYPD’s Paid Detail Unit. " Certainly this program should aim for perfection. Like the perfection of the reporter who found 1/2 of this story and then stopped because it sounded bad.

"Other Wall Street firms that are known to have used the Paid Detail include Goldman Sachs, the World Financial Center complex which houses financial firms, and the New York Stock Exchange."
Horrible. Until this point in the article, I thought it was Associated Supermarket and David Z's shoes that was using Paid Detail.

"The New York Stock Exchange is the building in front of which the Occupy Wall Street protesters have unsuccessfully tried to protest, being herded behind metal barricades, clubbed with night sticks, kicked in the face and carted off to jail rather than permit the last plantation in America to be defiled with citizen chants and posters."
You realize that protesters are at the NYSE all the time?
You realize that the NYSE area has been the successful target of terrorist attacks going back before you were born?
You realize that if the NYSE at Wall Street shut down tomorrow, that all of the trading would still take place?

"“I’ll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes one.” The last sign refers to the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, giving corporations First Amendment personhood, which allows them to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections.)"
What about when they are taxed?

"Military backgrounds; paid NYPD 24-7; checkpoints; vehicle barriers? It might be insightful to recall that the New York Stock Exchange originally traded stocks with a handshake under a Buttonwood tree in the open air on Wall Street."
How nice. We should bring back the Buttonwood tree and ask the terrorists not to fly planes into our buildings anyomre.

"This action had crippled the business of a parking garage, Wall Street Garage Parking Corp., the plaintiff in the case. Judge Walter Tolub said in his opinion that:
So this whole thing is simply revenge for a disgruntled parking garage?

"Some believe that Wall Street is given special privileges and protection because New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg owes his $18.1 billion in wealth (yes, he’s that 1 percent the 99 percent are protesting) to Wall Street. The Mayor was previously a trader for Salomon Brothers, the investment bank made famous for attempting to rig the U.S. Treasury market in two-year notes."
Was the mayor on the team that was involved?
And of the $18.1 billion the Mayor has, is even the .1 billion from his days at Salomon?

"There has also been a bizarre revolving door between the Wall Street millionaires and the NYPD at times. One of the most puzzling career moves was made by Stephen L. Hammerman. He left a hefty compensation package as Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co. in 2002 to work as Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters for the NYPD from 2002 to 2004. That move had everyone on Wall Street scratching their head at the time. Merrill collapsed into the arms of Bank of America on September 15, 2008, the same date that Lehman went under."
Brilliant - Hammerman's move from the NYPD to Merrill is clearly responsible for Merrill being sold to BofA in a private transaction.

"But Wall Street is the only sector that runs a private justice system where its crimes are herded off to secret arbitration tribunals, "
You mean the NASD and NYSE regulatory bodies? Whose results are available to the public? Which is authorized by the SEC?

"We may be learning a lot more in the future about the tactics Wall Street and the NYPD have deployed against the Occupy Wall Street protestors. The highly regarded Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a class action lawsuit over the approximately 700 arrests made on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1. The formal complaint and related information is available at the organization’s web site,www.JusticeOnLine.org.
The organization was founded by Carl Messineo and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. The Washington Post has called them “the constitutional sheriffs for a new protest generation.”
The suit names Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly, the City of New York, 30 unnamed members of the NYPD, and, provocatively, 10 unnamed law enforcement officers not employed by the NYPD."
No Wall Street firms named? Isn't that the whole point of this article? Yet none are named?

"“As seen in the movements for social change in the Middle East and Europe, all movements for social justice, jobs, and democracy need room to breathe and grow and it is imperative that there be a halt to law enforcement actions used to shut down mass assembly and free expression of the people seeking to redress grievances…"
We are like Lybia and Egypt?

"“That the trap and detain mass arrest was a command-level-driven intentional and calculated police operation is evidenced by the fact that the law enforcement officials who led the demonstration across the bridge were command officials, known as ‘white shirts.’ ”"
When you say "white shirts" with that type of emphasis, it really sounds BAD.

"A mysterious, mature, white shirted inspector who ordered my arrest on the sidewalk, and refused to give his first name, disappeared from the police report when it was filed, blaming the arrest instead on a young police officer. "
No alien probing?

"The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a Federal lawsuit on my behalf (Martens v. Giuliani) and we learned that the NYPD had arbitrarily established a policy to arrest and hold for 72 hours any person protesting in a group of 20 or more. The case was settled for a modest monetary award and the repeal by the NYPD of this unconstitutional and despicable practice."
How much did you get?

Google search of Pam Martens ... 3rd listing lists this:
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=17709.0
Is Pam Martens an Anti-Semite? Why does Pam Martens associate with neo-nazis?
« on: April 21, 2009, 03:01:03 pm »

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After reading the article by Pam Martens about the FSP, I looked into the newsletter that Pam Martens' chooses to write for. Wow. What a load of racist CRAP!

CounterPunch, again, the newsletter that Pam Martens has chosen to associate with, has had articles that have alleged the following hateful conspiracies:

Jews Spread Anthrax

Israel did 9/11

Jews control the media

http://nypost.com/2013/10/24/pepper-spray-cop-wins-38k-in-workers-comp-suit/

The B-I-G money & the special interests have bought the system.

Yea, b/c everything you read on a gold bug doomsday site is true!