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New York police protecting their master's manor house: The New York Stock Exchange.

The NYPD has kept a close eye on the Occupy Wall Street's May Day protestplans.

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A six page memo (see below) from the NYPD's Shield unit reveals the department is concerned over "political fissures" in the movement which they believe could lead to violence Tuesday.

From the memo:

Political fissures that are present within the OWS movement may impact the strategies of demonstrators during individual protest actions; in particular, the Wildcat March is not an officially sanctioned OWS march and may attract militant elements from inside and outside the OWS movement that may seek to directly confront law enforcement officials using barricades, riot shields, and possibly weapons such as pipes and rocks.

(For a full schedule of May Day's permitted and not permitted events, go here.)

In anticipation Monday, the FBI and NYPD raided the homes of protesters.

"There were a number of visits between 6:00 and 7:30 in the morning and at other points in the day that appeared to target people that primarily the NYPD, but in one instance the FBI, wanted to ask certain questions to," Gideon Oliver, a spokesman for the National Lawyers Guild, which often represents Occupy protesters, told Buzzfeed. "Questions included things like 'what are your May Day plans?' 'Do you know who the protest leaders are?' 'What do you know about the May Day protests?' and such."

LP - That first amendment has been cancelled. As the power of the state snaps at its own citizens.

Lots of Wealthy people who've never really cared too much about minority kids before falling over themselves to help them now, at a public cost

The sorry state of education. Start by blaming the people in charge the politicians

From business week Protesters vow To Occupy Wall Street for months

Wall Street Protesters Vow to Occupy Lower Manhattan for Months

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Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street firms will be the target of a nonviolent demonstration in which organizers say they want 20,000 people to participate with tents, kitchens and “peaceful barricades.”

Dubbed “#OccupyWallStreet,” the goal of the protest in lower Manhattan is to get President Barack Obama to establish a commission to end “the influence money has over our representatives in Washington,” according to the website of Adbusters, a group promoting the demonstration. Organizers plan to start on Sept. 17 and want participants to “occupy” the area for “a few months,” according to the website.

“People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday at a press conference. “As long as they do it where other people's rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds, and that's what makes New York New York.”

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Is New York The Most American City?

I love New York. I’m just down here for a couple of days before a cruise. New York is truly a Mecca of capitalism, real capitalism. Forget about the crony capitalism that takes place daily between Wall Street and Washington. There is individual convenience stores and restaurants that are owned by thousands of individual owners. Even people running the hot dog carts have gone into business for themselves. Despite how expensive New York is. These small places have food that isn’t outrageously expensive and it has a wide variety of ethnic food that other parts of America can only dream of. There seems to be a good restaurant on every street corner: Italian, Chinese, Indian, Moroccan, Ethiopian, kosher, El Al, or delicatessens.

For some reason Americans might love the idea of New York, remember GW Bush and Rudy Giuliani 911 everything changed, but they seem to hate actual New York. They view it as America’s Sodom and Gomorrah and probably in part it’s because of the numbers of foreigners that live in the city. The New Yorkers could not hope to round up all foreigners because really where would they begin. In much of the rest of the country they talk about their great love capitalism even as their lives are controlled by the big box stores. When it came to putting a mosque near ground zero it wasn’t the New Yorkers who seemed to be making a ruckus out it but more often it was people from Kansas or Alabama who often had never set foot in New York and who lived miles away from anything a terrorist would want to blow up. New York is truly the heart of America in its best and worst. It is a place of survivors. It is loud and brash. It is America.