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Occupiers, Meet the Resistance

posted 12 years ago by Satan2016
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Long review by friend of Breitbart. Can't wait for the other reviews, but I expect MSM will try to ignore it until hits 100s of theaters.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/16/Occupiers-Meet-the- Resistance

Occupy Unmasked, where I lost count of the number of signs, t-shirts, posters, and crudely sprayed graffiti messages saying exactly that. There were pictures of Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez, flags of Cuba and of Hamas. There were Black Panther salutes, and black ski masks, and plenty of anarchist flags.

I also saw plenty of placards and t-shirts denouncing the police, most memorably the Occupy sign that read “My Heroes Have Always Killed Cops.” The film documents how Occupy demonstrators attack and provoke local police—ironically, it’s often upper-middle class white kids taunting African-American policemen, who are singled out for racist taunts of “Jim Crow” and “Uncle Tom”—and how the hacker group Anonymous coordinates its efforts with Occupy, publicizing names and addresses of street cops and dissenting journalists to expose them to intimidation and threats. The goal of provoking cops, the film reveals, is to force police to arrest protestors—whom the media uniformly present as peace-loving, idealistic protestors suppressed by brute force. We shouldn’t be too surprised by this either; as the film shows, a reporter from the New York Times who was allegedly covering the Occupy movement was actually one of its organizers.

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[–] Satan2016 12 years ago

More reviews coming in ...

'Occupy Unmasked' Review: Shredding the Lies of the Movement http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/09/20/Occupy-Unmasked-Rips -the-Lies-of-the-Movement-to-Shreds

The film starts to appear even more sinister when it reveals the organizers behind the protests. One organizer, Malcolm Harris, a self-described communist, lied to the Occupiers in order to get them to Zuccotti park by telling them the band Radiohead would be playing there. And just as you’d expect, a New York Times writer helped him get that message out.

Last work: Andrew Breitbart’s ‘Occupy’ film (Bossie/Bannon video interview) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81526.html?hp=l17

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[–] Satan2016 12 years ago

The director of Occupy Unmasked talks facts, bias and the future of the movement
http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2012/09/occupy_wall_street_occup y_denv.php?print=true

What was it about the Brooklyn Bridge occupation?

That was one of the biggest mass arrests in american history -- more than 700 people -- but it was just so organized and coordinated and they had baited the police. That's what I saw, at least. The way the media had come in and become cheerleaders for it astounded me. Erin Burnett's report, when she went down on her show and kind of mocked these guys, the media ripped on her. The Brooklyn Bridge incident seemed to indicate that people had thought this through. It was well organized and highly disciplined, not just a random occurrence.

And the film seems to point strongly to that conclusion.

Our contention is that the occupation was no random occurrence. It's a combination of Anonymous and other factors. I think a center-left populist movement would be incredibly productive and helpful to the country right now. But I think that was hijacked by the side parties who took over the movement. The movie is violent and vulgar. I put cameras out there everywhere, and the middle class doesn't read the alternative press. It comes across as shocking for people who see it. Everyone in this film is a former radical or a leftist.

How does the film cover Anonymous?

Anonymous is a very scary force, and it's not portrayed in a positive light in my film. The police are really the heroes in this film, which covers a lot about doxing [the online disclosure of personal information, which was an especially popular tactic for responding to police]. It shows that Anonymous has powers to intimidate. Someone came up to me and told me that the villains are the mainstream media and the politicians who attempt to use the movement to their own end, and the Anonymous people and hardcore activists come across as anarchist ninjas. If you believe in anarchy, they're heroes.

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