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Survival - It’s Not Just Direct Police Action the Movement Needs to Fear, But an Army of Infiltrators and Saboteurs
SURVIVAL
It’s Not Just Direct Police Action the Movement Needs to Fear, But an Army of Infiltrators and Saboteurs.Unrecognized Successes May Prove Most Effective and Enduring
by
Michael C. Ruppert
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November 17, 2011, SEBASTOPOL – A great deal was accomplished by #Occupy before a series of closely coordinated police actions took out encampments in major cities around the country and in its birthplace, New York City’s Zuccotti Park.
True political power has been demonstrated by a popular movement for the first time since the 1970s. #Occupy got the full attention of The Powers That Be… and it frightened them.
The #Occupy movement has been forced into a position where it now must evolve or perish. And in the wake of recent raids, #Occupy has been compelled to evolve as I had foreseen it would when asked by a #Occupy videographer to vision what #Occupy and the world might look like. I refused, stating what has become obvious to all sustainability activists in the days following the clearing of Zuccotti Park and major encampments through the country. In the wake of Mayor Bloomberg’s blatantly illegal decision to clear Zuccotti Park, occupiers in varying cities have undertaken a wide variety of actions in response to a smorgasbord of political, legal and cultural climates, each of which have their own unique complexities and challenges.
In Santa Rosa, California, one of the most successful encampments, which has experienced no violence, the challenge is not from overt repression but rather from covert infiltration and political duplicity. All of these challenges will force those facing them in each city to evolve differently. In that process #Occupy will inevitably face an uphill battle to maintain cohesiveness, focus and political power.
How the movement evolves on one level and how civilization will look on another will be determined by the differing realities in each specific location. This is a fundamental fact of nature and evolution that cannot be changed. It is the place, which dictates the direction of evolution, not the will. For everything in nature must yield first to its immediate environment.
The tent was the symbol of both our freedom and our power; our freedom from material/monetary possession.
The tent was the symbol of both our freedom and our power; our freedom from material/monetary possession. It has been removed by a refined and relentless program coordinated through the Department of Homeland Security and empowered by the Patriot Act. (Here’s what I had to say about the Patriot Act in late 2001. These events were predictable even then.) Even before we had the now-confirmed evidence of DHS’s involvement and the now-legendary conference call between eighteen mayors in occupied cities before last week’s assaults, I was telling you that this was happening, that this was all being orchestrated.
For the two months since #Occupy first appeared the United States has avoided the widespread bloodshed and violence that rocked much of the world this year. In the UK, peaceful protests replaced violent ones. #Occupy provided a safe, non-violent place to contain energy that would have produced much bloodshed and property damage as it has throughout the rest of the world this year. We stopped hearing about flash mobs as soon as #Occupy launched, didn’t we? Universally, authorities and the media alike acknowledge ours was a non-violent movement. What violence did occur was undeniably provoked by outsiders or police.
With the assaults on #Occupy by DHS and local police agencies, the flash mobs will be back with a vengeance as the global economy deteriorates at breakneck speed.
THE LOSS OF SACRED SPACE IN SEARCH OF ONE WORD
A sacred and powerful space was held open and millions of people learned more about the real ills of this world in some of the best and most-accelerated learning laboratories I have ever seen. For most who came to #Occupy camps it has been an experience that has left them inwardly more confused. They have become seekers. There is so much that is wrong everywhere. So many “trial balloon” suggestions and “experts”, surrendering finally into feel-good, nutritionless echoes of failed movements past. “Cut the defense budget.” “Better shelter for the homeless.” “Bring back the city’s public media center.”… ad nausem.
Those who bitterly want to find fault with #Occupy are missing some very important and essential things that happened in it. It has been the most-intense networking experience in human history. Leaders identified and recognized each other. Many Stanley’s met many Livingstones. And from this something better is emerging with much more power and much greater focus as the Quickening nears its climax. Many fertile seeds have been planted and they are already bearing fruit.
I decided that I would become involved in the #Occupy movement when I saw its wisdom in not issuing a list of demands. That was after I had seen that it could overcome the first wave of threats to its nascent consciousness. I instantly understood that the longer #Occupy did not issue a list of demands, the shorter the list of possible demands would become. I also saw that many more people would come to demand them. We got what we got and it was not a loss. #Occupy galvanized more people, faster than anything I’ve seen in my life. And I realized that when the list of demands finally came down to just one word there would be no need for discussion groups or debate. We would have reached the Hundredth Monkey because debate would no longer be necessary.
That one word is “survival”.
The rapidly dawning truth for all of mankind is that our survival is what is at stake now.
Will we find the Hundredth Monkey in time?
Two very significant stories appeared yesterday. Oil raced through $100/bbl and went to $102. And the United States national debt hit $15,000,000,000,000. That is a debt that can never be repaid, because it can only be repaid through consumption of vast quantities of rapidly disappearing resources, the most important of which is the energy, which is needed in order to exploit everything else.
The current debt ceiling is around $15.2 trillion. The Super Committee has failed. The European dominoes are falling at a faster pace.
Holding that sacred open space is only one of the challenges that #Occupy is no longer capable of performing.
I can speak with authority on this point. But before I do, watch for yourself as Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis speaks on it in a just-released video from New York. You will not want to miss this. He talks about how the movement is infiltrated by government operatives and how the government targets leaders.
Since the 1960s the United States government and the banking powers it represents have refined and perfected the art of destroying movements from within. What happened to this movement is right out of the textbook… #Occupy’s greatest strength was its also greatest weakness. It was “leaderless”.
#Occupy’s greatest strength was its also greatest weakness. It was “leaderless”.
#Occupy’s greatest strength was its also greatest weakness. It was “leaderless”.
SANTA ROSA
The Santa Rosa City Council betrayed us at #Occupy Santa Rosa; because that was the only way they could defeat us… That was because we had real leaders at OSR.
After a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, four-and-a-half hour council meeting and an apparent victory just over a week ago, the Council retired to draft and issue the camping permits that OSR had agreed to in negotiations. They were “delayed” until three days ago and, when presented, were infinitely more draconian and invasive than our bargain had stipulated. Photos were required, along with all personal information that would be displayed in public, outside each tent for police inspection at any time.
Good faith was lost.
They knew we would not accept this. The Council treated OSR with utter contempt and disrespect. By Tuesday night, after the blitzkrieg defeat of OWS in New York, both morale and order were beginning to evaporate within the OSR camp. Today the vampires with their extended fangs arose to attack our non-leader leaders, the ones who had made OSR a success. They all but wore their agendas on their sleeves. Disrupt, divide… and destroy.
Leaderless is not the way natural law operates, for either predator or prey. Because in the animal kingdom, for almost all higher orders, there will always be leaders because that is the only way a tribe/pack/herd can organize, specialize and survive. Plato’s first requirement for human society was not democracy or freedom. It was order. TPTB have brainwashed us into disempowering and castrating our own leaders, and thereby into destroying ourselves. What #Occupy was able to achieve thus far is one of the greatest political accomplishments of our time.
I’m sure there are manuals for this in many agencies. (e.g. p.264 – Eliminating effective core leaders in open movements) It is an operations manual rewritten and revised many times since the days of COINTELPRO. Already in #Occupy Santa Rosa the plants and the provocateurs, the faux lily-livered lefties with deep pockets, the agents and the scavengers are moving in. Homeland Security and the FBI operatives are all throughout the camp, right along with people I’d love to shake down if I were still a cop. And before the camp is suddenly stormed in a few days there will be much new evidence confirming that it has become a public nuisance rather than a public savior.
Last night Santa Rosa PD was walking through the camp licking their chops like wolves. It looked to me like they were mentally marking the tents they would soon be tearing down with relish.
What follows is a letter I have drafted after consultations with many of the people who made Occupy Santa Rosa a success.
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We are non-violent. We are your friends. We are your neighbors. In a very short time the only critical issues will be feeding, housing and caring for the citizens of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County. We will need each other to do that successfully. We will need each other when the federal government implodes, contracts and dies. We will need each other when state government grinds to a complete halt. We will need each other when money is meaningless and all we will have to survive with is this place… and each other.
November 17, 2011
Attention City of Santa Rosa
Attention #Occupy Santa Rosa
We are the ones who have built Occupy Santa Rosa and made it successful. We are the ones who negotiated, organized and set up a camp to your specifications. We are the ones who crossed every “t” and dotted every “i”. We are the ones who demonstrated both willingness and an ability to work with elected officials. Some of us are the ones you tried to co-opt into your system while praising our skills when you could not sway us.
The #Occupy Movement has been forced to change but we have not.
We can see the encampment deteriorating. We know that its life will end soon, probably in a surprise raid that will be justified by what the camp has become.
We know that the Department of Homeland security along with the banking powers that be have executed a coordinated plan to suck the life out of #Occupy movement nationwide. We know that the City of Santa Rosa probably had little choice but to go along with that plan.
We are letting you, the City of Santa Rosa, know that we are leaving #OSR. You will know who we are because you will not see us at City Hall again. We do not need to tell you our names. And when the proverbial excrement hits the fan it will not attach to us. This outcome was your making, not ours. The whole world has been watching and the whole world understands what has been done.
We will rise to speak our truth and fight our fight another time, under another banner. We will be like the guerilla warriors. We will emerge to fight the fights we choose and then withdraw into the shadows to reform and fight again. But each time we emerge you will see first an extended hand of friendship.
But unlike the guerillas in previous wars of liberation we are not your enemies. We do not wish to harm you. We are non-violent. We are your friends and your neighbors. In a very short time the only critical issues will be feeding, housing and caring for the citizens of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County. We will need each other to do that successfully. We will need each other when the federal government implodes, contracts and dies. We will need each other when California state government grinds to a complete halt. We will need each other when money is meaningless and all we will have to survive with is this place… and each other.
Remember us. We serve the people of Sonoma County too and we are not competition. We will be doing while the rest of the world is teaching or discussing. And we will not be slowed down.
DHS and the banking powers that govern this dying world of infinite growth are welcome to the carcass of #Occupy Santa Rosa. The miracle that it gave birth to has already moved on to other things.
Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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It was a good run: spectacular at its finest moments, relentlessly bizarre at its weirdest, beauty and tragedy and tarps and tents and everything it couldn’t have been and nothing that it was. It was Occupy Eugene, after all, which is like saying “put water in the ocean.” There’s no shame in admitting that we don’t have what it takes, that we don’t even know what it takes, that we’re not even completely clear on what “it” is or what “takes” might imply. Really, there isn’t. The Man didn’t beat us; in fact, if anything the Man killed us with kindness and let our own internal struggles and squabbles tear us apart from the inside. So be it. We lost on our own merits.
Eugene
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