"Operation Overlord."

And here's a few more:

[D]efendant Betts worked to persuade President Bush and the White House to hold the RNC on the West Side of Manhattan.

122. For example, the New York Times reported on January 14, 2005: “Mr. Betts, recalling that as the threat of protests grew, Mr. Bush took to tormenting him with comments like: ‘You’re ruining me politically. Why did you make me come to New York?’ Mr. Betts chuckled. ‘It was all good-natured,’ he said, ‘but I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, there’s probably a grain of truth in there. Should he have gone to Tampa?’’

123. Upon information and belief, defendants Betts and Bloomberg worked together to raise tens of millions of dollars worth of private finding. [...]

131. Upon information and belief, in approximately December of 2002, defendants Betts and Bloomberg had a dinner meeting with and Mr. Karl Rove, at or about which time the agreement that the defendant City would host the Republican National Convention was finalized. [...]

133. On or about January 6, 2003, the RNC Site Selection Committee recommended the City to host the 2004 RNC “for the first time in its history.”

134. Upon information and belief, on or about January 31, 2003, the announcement of defendant NYC as the host for the 2004 RNC “launched an extensive 19-month security coordination among City, State, and Federal entities.”

135. Upon information and belief, the United States Department of Homeland Security and/or other Federal agencies designated the RNC as a “National Security Special Event.”

136. Upon information and belief, in the year preceding the RNC, defendants Bloomberg, Kelly, Esposito,
Monahan, Colgan, DeRienzo, Spinella, Hammerman, Graham, and/or Smolka had numerous and frequent meetings with representatives from the United States Secret Service (“SS”), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the New York City Fire Department, and the New York State Office of Emergency Management (“NYSOEM”) in connection with developing and implementing a plan for policing planned and unplanned protests during the RNC.

137. Upon information and belief, the United States Secret Service and defendant NYPD served as lead agencies “with support from the FBI, FEMA, various State and local enforcement authorities, and other related organizations” in this effort.

138. Upon information and belief, defendants called the operation “Operation Overlord II.”

139. Upon information and belief, in connection with the approximately 19-month “Operation Overlord II” planning effort, defendant NYPD acted in concert with unidentified City, State, and/or Federal law enforcement agencies to engage in unlawful and unwarranted surveillance of individuals they believed might come to New York City to demonstrate prior to and/or during the RNC.

140. Throughout 2003 and 2004, organizers across the United States and beyond planned protests during the week of August 30th to September 2, 2004.

141. Many utilized the internet to publicly announce planned, unpermitted demonstrations and other events.

142. Some groops and organizations, such as United for Peace and Justice, applied for formal parks and/or parade permits for massive, planned demonstrations.

143. Upon information and belief, throughout 2003 and 2004, defendant NYPD was monitoring and surveilling such plans on the internet.

144. For example, the New York Times reported on November 12, 2003 that, according to defendant Kelly, “the police [were] monitoring the Internet and the organizing groups, . . . . They want to know what groups are coming to New York, who their leaders are and what their plans are, long before anyone ever raises a billboard or turns on a bullhorn.” [...]

146. Upon information and belief, in connection with the approximately 19-month “Operation Overlord II” planning effort, defendant NYPD acted in concert with unidentified City, State, and/or Federal law enforcement agencies and determined to arrest and fully book individuals during the RNC for minor offenses such as disorderly conduct and parading without a permit, which are technically violations of law and not crimes, in contravention of normal NYPD procedures in connection with such offenses under which
arrestees are generally issued summonses (i.e., not arrested and fully booked).

147. In particular, defendants planned to engage in mass warrantless arrests as a means of crowd control and retaliation against individuals engaged in lawful, peaceful protest activity during the RNC.

148. Pursuant to New York State Criminal Procedure Law § 160.10(2), “a police officer who makes an arrest for any offense, either with or without a warrant, may take or cause to be taken the fingerprints of the arrested person. . . ”. See CPL § 160.10(2) (emphasis added).

149. Upon information and belief, in connection with the approximately 19-month “Operation Overlord II” planning effort, defendant NYPD acted in concert with unidentified City, State, and/or Federal law enforcement agencies and determined to systematically fingerprint those arrested for minor offenses during the RNC.

150. Upon information and belief, defendant NYPD subsequently planned to forward and actually forwarded those fingerprints (including plaintiffs’) to unidentified City, State, and/or Federal law enforcement agencies.

152. Upon information and belief, on or about March 11th, 2004, New York County District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau testified before the New York City Council during a budget hearing to the effect that “We also know that the Republican National Convention will bring significantly increased arrests in the weeks before the convention. NYPD anticipates that we could have up to 1,000 arrests a day.”

153. Accordingly, in 2003 and 2004, defendants were engaging in extensive surveillance of individuals and
groups they believed would come to NYC during the RNC to engage in protest activities.

154. So, well in advance of the RNC itself, defendants had fulsome intelligence - some of it obtained by the SS, FBI, and/or other City, State, and/or Federal agencies through the use of warrantless surveillance and/or the employment of undercover agents to infiltrate groups and gather intelligence about individuals perceived as protesters - regarding anticipated demonstrations and other protest activities.

155. Defendants planned to make “up to 1,000 arrests a day” in connection with RNC protest activities for minor offenses such as disorderly conduct and parading without a permit.

156. In ancitipation of those plans, the New York State Office of Court Administration (“OCA”) more than
doubled arraignment capacity, staffing four (4) day arraignment parts, four (4) night arraignment parts, and a midnight stiff.

157. The Office of the District Attorney of New York County added additional staff and kept its complaint room open extra hours.

159. Defendants’ mass arrest plans were maliciously designed and intended to punish and discourage dissent.

[...]

This is a civil rights action in which plaintiffs, who were arrested on August 31, 2004 at the height of the Republican National Convention (“RNC”) in NewYork City, seek relief in connection with defendants’ violation of plaintiffs’ rights secured by the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 USC § 1983, the United States Constitution, including its First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and by the laws and Constitution of the State of New York.

Plaintiffs seek damages, both compensatory and punitive, affirmative and equitable relief, an award of costs and attorneys’ fees, and such other and further relief as this Court deems equitable and just."

—VERIFIED COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL___06-CV-2041, DENNIS KYNE, DUSTIN LANGLEY, and CHARLES DUNCAN, Plaintiffs, - against - PAUL WOLFOWITZ, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEOF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE CITY OF NEW YORK (“NYC”), a municipal entity; THE NEW YORK CITY POLICEDEPARTMENT (“NYPD”); THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (“NYCDOC”); THE HUDSON RIVER PARK TRUST (“HRPT”), a joint City-State body; CONNIE FISHMAN, HRPT PRESIDENT; THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HOST COMMITTEE (“RNCHC”); ROLAND BETTS, CO-VICE CHAIR OF THE RNCHC; NYC MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG; MARTIN HORN, NYCDOC COMMISSIONER; JORGE OCASIO, NYCDOC WARDEN; RAYMOND KELLY, NYPD COMMISSIONER; JOSEPH ESPOSITO, NYPD CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT; STEPHEN L. HAMMERMAN, NYPD DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF LEGAL MATTERS; BRUCE H. SMOLKA, ASSISTANT CHIEF, NYPD MANHATTAN SOUTHTASK FORCE; THOMAS GRAHAM, COMMANDER, NYPD DISORDER CONTROL UNIT; TERRENCE MONAHAN, ASSISTANT CHIEF, NYPD BRONX BOROUGH COMMAND; JOHN J. COLGAN, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NYPD COUNTER-TERRORISM BUREAU; CHARLES DERIENZO, NYPD DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION; ROLAND MERCANDETTI, CAPTAIN, NYPD PATROL BORO BRONX SOUTH TASK FORCE; JOHN SCOLARO, CAPTAIN, 78 th PRECINCT; DETECTIVE CHRISTOPHER AMBROSE, NYPD LEGAL BUREAU; DANIEL ALBANO, LIEUTENANT, NYPD LEGAL BUREAU; NYPD LIEUTENANT RAYMOND SPINELLA; NYPD LIEUTENANT JOE MAHER; NYPD SERGEANT EDWARD MURPHY, PATROL BORO BRONXANTI-CRIME UNIT, SHIELD NO. 1502; MALE FIRST NAME ANDLAST NAME UNKNOWN NYPD BICYCLE SERGEANT (“UNIDENTIFIED BICYCLE SERGEANT”); NYPD PATROL BORO BRONX SOUTH TASKFORCE OFFICER MATTHEW WOHL, SHIELD NO. 6956; NYPDOFFICER JOHN MARTINEZ, 112 th PRECINCT, SHIELD NO.23496; NYPD LEGAL BUREAU OFFICER JAMES ROSCHER, SHIELDNO. 17208; UNIDENTIFIED NYPD SUPERVISORS AND OFFICERS JOHN AND JANE DOES; and UNIDENTIFIED RICHARD AND MARYROE FEDERAL, STATE, AND/OR CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, INCLUDING ONE SUCH “MARY ROE” UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL, STATE, OR CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT WEARINGA LIGHT-BLUE T-SHIRT (“BLUE”), individually and in their official capacities, jointly and severally, Defendants.

This is Michael Bloomberg's idea of justice. And of how to spend his constituents money. And of law. And of freedom. Him in the white house? Nah, I think we've seen where these beliefs are leading us. We can't afford any more.

And on the larger tip, I hope we all continue to add all this up. We need all of us, all our memories, all our stories, all our blogs, all our cameras, all our hope, and all our fury. We need to remember this, along with this, and this, and this and this.... These aren't to be dismissed as random and unrelated incidents. The MSM Press squashes these stories, and when it doesn't, it deftly de- and re-contextualizes and/or isolates and minimizes them. Without the Internet and phone calls, many people wouldn't even see a larger pattern coming together. But along with Bombocracy, the USA is also a chief exporter of home-grown ignorance, and of course the MSM and those who who fund MSM outlets generally do not want us to see these patterns. I was amazed that so little people knew of these mass arrests in NYC. And many still do not! But these arrests rocked the city. For days. For much longer, given the fallout. They were historically unprecedented. They were cruel, they were illegal, they were anti-American, and and worst of all, I feel they were practice for....

And who was at the helm?

Michael Bloomberg. "Moderate." "Independent." "From the Center." Not in my experience. Not even close to the center. Unless you are talking about the center of a Police State.