Hazmat Suits to Break Up Occupations? Mayors Feign Concern for Health to Trash a Growing Movement

[marmar]

AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe

Hazmat Suits to Break Up Occupations? How Mayors Feign Concern for Health to Trash a Growing Movement
Mayors and police around the country have pretended public health is the reason for shutting down Occupy protests, but their actions belie their words.

December 4, 2011 |


When the police came to raid Occupy Los Angeles, they wore white hazmat suits, sealed away inside extra layers of material designed to protect against biological hazards, radiation, or chemicals.

They looked like aliens, or astronauts.

Not all of them of course; there were still typical riot-suited officers. 1400 police in all came in to clear out the camp that LA's mayor had encouraged at first.

But the hazmat suits stuck out, not just because they were bright white against the darkness (like all the major Occupy raids, this one took place in the middle of the night), but because they seemed a final literal representation of the argument used against Occupy for months now. Disease. Contagion. Dirt. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/153302/hazmat_suits_to_break_up_occupations_how_mayors_feign_concern_for_health_to_trash_a_growing_movement/

[lbrtbell]

1. We need Hazmat suits to deal with corporatists

They eat shit and harm the world...how much more hazardous can you get?

[Magoo48]

2. Hazmat suits should be mandatory upon entering DC or any state capital.

Why is it that cops feel......oh fuck it.

[bemildred]

3. Theatrical productions require the actors to wear costumes. nt