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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD [View all]
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/06/wall-streets-secret-spy-center-run-for-the-1-by-nypd/February 06, 2012
How 60 Minutes Blew the Story
Wall Streets Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD
by PAM MARTENS
On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousands of surveillance cameras affixed to buildings and lampposts throughout New York City. The cameras feed live images of people going about their everyday lives to a $150 million computer center equipped with artificial intelligence to integrate and analyze the daily habits of what are, for the most part, law-abiding Americans.
The thrust of the 60 Minutes program was the fine job of counter terrorism being done by the NYPD and its Commissioner, Raymond Kelly. It was a triumph in public relations for a police department about to go on an assault spree pepper spraying and punching peaceful protestors; kicking, ramming and arresting journalists attempting to cover the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
On air, the reporter, Scott Pelley, said the surveillance center was housed in a secret location, as one would expect of a real counter terrorism program as opposed to a program to simply quash dissent. Mr. Pelley also said the program was run by the NYPD. As it turns out, neither of those assertions were accurate.
The New York Times, the worldwide news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), Wired Magazine, the New York City Council had all previously reported the location of the supposedly super secret counter terrorism center on their public web sites: 55 Broadway in the bowels of the financial district. What was a secret about the operation, and not reported by 60 Minutes to its viewers, despite being well aware of the facts, is that the center is jointly staffed and operated by the NYPD along with the largest Wall Street firms the same firms under investigation in 50 states for mortgage and foreclosure fraud and widely credited with causing the Nations economic collapse. The Wall Street firms that were involuntarily bailed out by the 99% are now policing the 99%.
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There is nothing wrong with this and your point about mortgage fraud is irrelevant
badtoworse
Feb 2012
#2
NYPD, like all our other institutions, working for Wall Street. I think it's time to let Wall
sabrina 1
Feb 2012
#5
Well, we need a police force but we need a civilian police force. The NYPD is not a
sabrina 1
Feb 2012
#8
a few bad apples arrested 1,800, many pre-emptively, during the R. convention, or was it a mistake?
G_j
Feb 2012
#14