Tear Gas ... Bean Bag Rounds ... Iraq War Vet critically Injured by Police

Yesterday and last evening saw police actions targeting occupy communities on both coasts.  In Atlanta, Mayor Kasim Reed, in his succumbing to the wishes of the ruling elites, withdrew his executive order allowing Occupy Atlanta to continue in Woodruff Park.  He used the pretext of a the dangers stemming from a misguided and misrepresented rap concert that was advertised on Georgia's most listened to radio station, to eliminate the Atlanta Occupy Community.  He said the trust between he and the Occupy Atlanta Community had been broken.  He didn't use the ruse of "weapons of mass destruction" to justify his police action.  It has already been taken. The occupy folks in Atlanta had been peacefully maintaining their vigil in the new American Revolution.  This vigil involved, among other things, the feeding homeless people, something that the outside community has not been able to do.  The mayor did not suggest that the Occupy Atlanta Community would be welcome in other venues.

Meanwhile, yesterday morning police in riot gear from many communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, cleared out the Occupy Oakland Community in the matter of a few minutes, lingering long enough to arrest over 97 residents and destroy their personal belongings.  Later in the evening, in front of Oakland City Hall, demonstrators, supporting the Occupy Oakland residents, gathered to demonstrate.  They were warned that they represented an "unlawful assembly."  On three separate occasions they were attacked with tear gas and bean bag rounds.  I watched all of this on the "Global Revolution live stream.   I saw one bloody demonstrator who had bean hit just above his right eye.  As it turns out, his name is Scott Olsen.  The Huffington Post reports that he is 24 and an Iraq War Veteran.  His room mate,  Keith Shannon also reported to the Huffington Post that Scott is sedated and on a reparator at Highland Hospital in Oakland.