
If you payed attention to the video, you will have noticed that the customers/vigilantes (yes, like you I am still torn as to what to call these 23 individuals and I am afraid on technical grounds I may have to side with the keepers of the established power structure peace, as to the actual definition of these 23 individuals who had according to them arrived with the express intent of closing their bank accounts and perhaps making a shiny mockery of Citibank on their dime -little did they expect that the cops or Citibank would let them waltz away on this one) were not being disruptive and in fact remained calm, save for one woman who claims she was mistakenly forced inside and arrested. At least she could have been civil and low key about having her civil liberties betrayed. Alas.
What has to be understood, despite the author’s pretense for apathy for social discord and the public castigation of the banks themselves is the real threat that if more and more people actually go to these institutions and remove their funds and swap them into other entities that have some shred of conscience they will as long as this course of action persists and multiplies itself nation and world wide find themselves on their knees completely naked and on the precipe of destruction.
So perhaps arresting these people has more to do with preserving the banks autonomy and very survival rather than the very interesting idea that all the security guards and cops were trying to do was put a sudden frenzy session of customers/vigilantes into quarantine mode. Who really needs to be quarantined are the banks, but that’s just the humble opinion of an individual with hardly a dime to his name.
Such are the affairs of modern day America bristling with self hate and apathy towards the haves and the have nots on a sullen Saturday afternoon.
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It was planted undercover police who were causing the fracas, thereby giving CitiBank and NYPD ‘a reason’ to arrest people – entrapment for sure! Remember when the NYPD were the good guys?
I’ve got a follow-up story today with some more details.
It turns out there was a similar action, at about the same time, at a Chase bank branch. Somehow, that one managed to end without any arrests at all….
http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-citibank-was-stupid-chase-bank-was-smart/