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“We now have a number of federal agencies with tens of thousands of employees, who’re spying on Americans…every aspect of American life,” Sherwood Ross, reporter of Chicago Daily News said in an interview with our channel on Sunday. 

“We have a government, which is providing local police departments with SWAT [Special Weapons and Tactics] teams, which use incredible force in putting down protesters” — who have been waging anti-corporatism demonstrations across the country. 

The popular protests are being carried out under the banner of the Occupy movement. The movement owes its name and inspiration to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) campaign that emerged after a group of demonstrators gathered in New York’s financial district on September 17, 2011 to protest against the excessive influence of big corporations on the US policies and the high-level corruption in the country. 

“We are seeing a country with a president [, who] can have the military arrest any person,” Ross pointed out. 

He said the apprehension would be carried out “once the president says so without court order” and would result in detention “in indefinite military confinement.” 

Over the past couple of months, the police have broken up Occupy encampments in cities and towns across the US and laid several thousands of protesters under arrest. 

According to occupyarrests.com, a website tracking the instances of apprehension, at least 6,477 Occupy protesters have been arrested since the emergence of the movement.