Naomi Wolf arrested.

[aquart]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/ows-cuomo-naomi-wolf

[stevedeshazer]

1. Whoa.

+1

[msongs]

2. who is naomi wolf? nt

[NYC_SKP]

4. Among other things, she wrote "The End of America"

The End of America

In The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining the 10 steps necessary for a fascist group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state and subvert the social/political liberty previously exercised by its citizens:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Harass citizens' groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors.
10. Suspend the rule of law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_A_Letter_of_Warning_to_a_Young_Patriot

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. D'oh! 10 out of 10 :(

[L0oniX]

5. duh!

[Sub Atomic]

9. What an asshole thing to post.

Perhaps instead of dishing out disdain for those who don't know or understand, you dish out compassion and try to reach out and teach the next generations.

They sure as hell aren't being taught in our school systems anymore.

[L0oniX]

30. WTF ...what the hell do you think Google is for? Your asshole responce ...

is just about as stupid.

[FarCenter]

6. Yale '84 BA English Lit

Another Ivy Leaguer.

[kestrel91316]

11. She is a very respected liberal author. Get out of your snit. You expect

every person who wants an education to settle for Podunk Community College??

[FarCenter]

20. Come and see the arrogance inherent in the system.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

(Although, I suppose she got into Yale as a scion of the minor intelligentsia, rather than a legacy of the 1%.)

[snagglepuss]

A Canadian writer and activist. She coined the term "disaster Capitalism" which

and wrote The Shock Doctrine which btw has proved to be prophetic.

[Luminous Animal]

12. That's Naomi Klein. Both are great liberal women.

[snagglepuss]

14. My bad.

[GliderGuider]

13. That was Klein, not Wolf... n/t

[snagglepuss]

15. Too much Nyquil.

[GliderGuider]

22. :-) No prob, it took me a while to tell them apart as well.

I have three heroes in my life, and one of them is Naomi Klein's father-in-law, Stephen Lewis.

For the record, the other two are Col. Romeo Dallaire and my father...

[inna]

28. oh no worries, it's an *extremely* common mistake! nearly everybody has confused the two at

one point or the other, lol! (*if* they've been reading liberal media, that is.)

[snagglepuss]

10. Dup self delete

[msongs]

17. geez all I asked was who is she n I get called names. oh well nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Crowd chanting, "Who do you protect?! Who do you serve?!"

Verily.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

7. The time is here

[kestrel91316]

8. So, do I have this right: she was at the event TO BE HONORED, and

afterward when she stepped out to the front of the building she was ARRESTED????

Oh, man, no amount of scrubbing is gonna get all that egg off the NYPD's collective face. What a bunch of maroons.

ETA: My bad. Cuomo was the honoree, she was there in support of the protest (though she looks dressed for the event inside, lol).

[Lucinda]

18. What I read said that she had attended the event.

And then came out to talk to the crowd.

[kestrel91316]

21. And you obviously have to be an INVITED guest for that thing.

THEY IN FACT ARRESTED AN EVENT GUEST?????

ZOMG. They ARE a bunch of maroons.

[Lucinda]

25. I'd love to be a fly on the wall wherever Cuomo is right now.

I can only imagine what's happening behind the scenes... :)

[kestrel91316]

16. For everyone's enlightenment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

[aquart]

27. THANK YOU.

I also had her confused with the other Naomi.

[Odin2005]

23. WTF? The Piggies must be tone-deaf.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Color me surprised, NOT

[DURHAM D]

26. Fantastic -

as soon as she is out of jail she will be everywhere on the tv. NYPD has just created a spokesperson for the movement.

Ms. Wolf will insist that she does not speak for OWS, while very clearly articulating what OWS represents.

tee-hee Mr. Mayor and Roger Ailes - bet you won't sleep well tonight

[OneGrassRoot]

29. She gives more info here:

from her FB page:

Thank you all again for your support. Given the coverage, I feel that I should put on record a bit of what happened, full details in the am. The protesters were being told that they needed to leave the sidewalk outside of the Huffington POst event because "Huffington Post had a permit" to control the use of the sidewalk. I have a chapter in Give Me Lberty on NYC permits so I knew that could not be accurate. Sidewalks are public spaces and can't be leased by private entities. I asked for a copy of the permit. A spokesman finally acknowledged that the permit allowed for pedestrian access as long as it did not obstruct foot traffic on the sidewalk.

I said, okay, we won;t obstruct pedestrian traffic, we will just walk. SO I invited the OWS protesters to come back from across the street and walk with me in a single file so no one obstructed the flow of pedestrians. A phalanx of white-shirted police then approached us and with a megaphone said, "you are disoveying a lawful order to disperse and will be arrested. I approached (respectfully and peacefully) the officer with the megaphone and said I was confused: the permit allowed us to walk if we did not obstruct traffic and we were not doing so. He stood before me and said "Will you get out of my way?" I did not say anything but I could not fall back because I knew he was misinterpreting the law. The sidewalks were being properly handled by the protesters even according to the restrictive permit. I did not step aside so he indicate dthat I should be cuffed, and my hands were cuffed behind me with plastic handcuffs. My partner and I were taken, cuffed, in a police van to I believe the seventh precinct (they had planned to take us to the first, I am so grateful to protesters who appeared on our behalf at the first) where we were held in separate cells for about half an hour. My cell had blood or feces on the wall. The staff were very courteous. But I was told that I would be released with a summons but that if I rejoined the protesters and got arrested my fingerprints would be taken, the sergeant gestured at a camera and said my photo would be taken, it would all be entered into a federal database and follow me forever. He also said if I spoke I should be careful not to say anything that could be construed as 'inciting a riot.' I said hadn't broken the law -- my summons was for 'disorderly conduct.: Many witnesses will confirm I stood perfectly still and addressed the officer with great courtesy. I said that we hadnt broken the law according to the permit in question. He said that when an officer deems a situation as safety issue, it trumps the permit. I asked, then how can any situation not be subject to an officer deeming it a "safety issue'? He did not explain but gave me a section of the criminal code to look up. I was arrested for disorderly conduct although my conduct was peaceful respectful law-abiding and orderly. I was arrested for not backing down when a police officer told me contrary to what I knew about the law and the permit process that a private entity owned the sidewalk. He was mistaken and I was correct. I behaved entirely lawfully and my arrest was unlawful.


:)