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OWS Now Classified As 'Terrorist' Group Along With Al-Qaeda Foment OWS 'Terror' - Open Camps? Daily Bell Staff Report
12-12-11
As I previously reported, the US Army is being mobilized to crush Occupy Wall Street and the recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act opens the door for the military to arrest and detain American citizens indefinitely without trial. We now have our first confirmation that Occupy Wall Street is being labeled as a Domestic Terrorist Threat and protestors now being labeled as possible domestic terrorists. Don't hesitate to think for a single second that agencies across the entire US agencies haven't already done the same exact thing. Perhaps more alarming is the photo of the original police document that has secretly handed "trusted" anti-terrorism partners has been removed from twitter. Alexander Higgins' blog
Dominant Social Theme: Once we create terror, we can incarcerate the terrorists.
Free-Market Analysis: As dedicated analysts of elite dominant social themes, we've been following the recent protests that started on Wall Street and have now spread around the world. We have long since come to the conclusion they have been fomented in support of a larger elite dominant social theme: Wall Street bad; lawyers good.
But perhaps there is a much darker side to what's going on. It is pretty much an established fact by now that the current round of protests was a product of the leftist Adbusters magazine, which is funded by elite enablers like George Soros.
We have pointed out that the protests are intended to move attention away from the proximate cause of modern financial disasters (central banks printing money-from-nothing) to "Wall Street" and Goldman Sachs and other facilities that promote Anglosphere elite goals but are not in charge of the larger conspiracy.
The conspiracy to run the world seems to emanate from a small group of banking families that control central banks along with their associates and enablers. This group a cartel or mafia with religious and cultural homogeneity creates war and chaos in order to build their longed-for new world order.
The current protests are likely part of the chaos that apparently is being willfully created by this power elite. The protests are the outgrowth of the larger chaos and the unrolling Great Recession, which is providing the proximate cause for the current European roll-up of "Merkozy."
The idea is that economic stress gives rise to protests that in turn justify wars and authoritarian crackdowns. We can see in the excerpt above from Higgins's blog that OWS has apparently been classified as a terrorist organization now in the City of London. He even produces a memo on his site to support his contention.
Likewise, Alex Jones's websites recently produced what is claimed to be an Obama administration operative memorandum authorizing the opening of various FEMA prison-camp sites throughout the US. The camp sites have never, apparently, been fully confirmed by the US government, though it is true that the Bush Administration did authorize Halliburton to build various detention facilities in the mid-2000s.
Additionally, legal cover for the roundup of "terrorists" anybody that the US government wants to define as one is being provided by congressional legislation that allows for military arrests, detention and even torture without trial. We covered that here: NDAA, Smell of Fear.
We thus come full circle, as we often do when analyzing the memes of the Anglosphere elite. It is not enough simply to produce fear-based promotions. They must be actuated. In this case the actuation would seem to be the current round of "controlled' protests via OWS.
What is going on now also puts the so-called "war on terror" into a more logical perspective. While the war on terror has been something of a failure in terms of providing enough horror to truly terrify Western populations, it now appears as if it may not need to.
The War on Terror plus the domestic US protests are apparently to provide the powers that be with the ability to detain people at will around the world and in the US, too. Of course, there is yet another proverbial shoe to drop as well ...
We've reported on what we believe to be upcoming Pecora Hearings (re-warmed 1930s hearings aimed at Wall Street) as a result. The idea, once again, is to whitewash central banking participation in the ongoing, deepening "Great Recession" of the 2000s.
The New York Federal Reserve, in particular, oversaw monetary inflation in the Roaring Twenties that gave way to the Depression in the 1930s once the artificial bubble burst. Panicked, Franklin Delano Roosevelt first declared bank holidays and then confiscated gold to make sure that people wouldn't turn in their Federal Reserve notes (dollars) for non-existent gold.
Once FDR and his central banking cronies had ensured that they would not be formally exposed, they tackled the next problem who was to blame? After running through several prosecutors (much as Lincoln ran through generals until he found a suitably bloody one, Grant) FDR settled on Ferdinand Pecora and the famous Pecora Hearings began.
The Pecora Hearings produced the current rigmarole of securities agencies that have been exported around the world in much the manner of central banking. Securities Exchange Commissions are sprouting up everywhere, all of them purporting to make markets "safer and fairer," though none of them do.
This seems to be the way the Anglosphere power elite works. They create economic chaos and then use it to create wars and additional authoritarianism. It is all part of a larger effort at creating what we call "directed history."
The power elite controls governments around the world, especially Western governments. Thus, it needs only manufacture a crisis in order to come up with a solution. Then its paid and craven enablers "write" the historical narrative. Future generations are not supposed to understand how badly they've been fooled.
The current narrative, when it is written (hypothetically, anyway), will leave out the central bankers' role in creating the current economic crisis. In fact, upcoming "Pecora-style" Hearings will be very important to the elite. It is through these phony hearings that they will be able to create market-based culpability.
So ... future generations will learn that Wall Street was responsible for the economic chaos of the early 21st century even though it was central banking initiated (by power elite central banks). Then these unborn generations will learn that Wall Street's bad actions spawned a backlash against "capitalist" greed.
What would be left out is that the power elite itself first created the crisis and then fomented the protests via controlled facilities such as Adbusters. Additionally, future generations might learn that the protests got out of hand, necessitating the actuation of FEMA camps.
Future generations may learn, in fact, that the chaos and anarchy that prevailed in the early 21st century gave opportunities to international terrorism, which in turn necessitated crackdowns and the suspension of civil rights and freedoms.
Probably, the suspension of civil rights would be cast as a "mistake" or overreaction. But none of this is a mistake. We can watch it being built, step by step. The Internet has made it possible.
It is the Internet, in our view, that is the "wild card" in all of this. Too many people are aware, we believe, of the deliberateness of the current civil and military insanity. Too many people are aware of the way global government is coming into being. And many do not like it.
Conclusion: Thus, as we have concluded before, it is the Internet Reformation itself that may derail what is currently being created. Directed history can indeed be implemented, but if too many people are aware of the manipulations, then it may be neither effective nor long-lasting. This is the conflict that is being played out now. Fortunes will be won or lost. And lives as well.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:58 pm Post Subject:
And a related one...
Media Spin: O’Reilly Technically Assaults Man, Then Claims Assault By OWS The Intel Hub
Shepard Ambellas
December 11, 2011
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly “technically assaulted” a man Thursday by touching him with his umbrella (according to DC law by way of a “threatening act”).
O’Rielly claims the man was an “Occupy” protestor yelling and screaming as he approached him and that he had to shield his new associate and himself as they approached the White House Gate.
According to O’Reilly the Secret Service took down information about the journalist linking him to the Occupy Movement, setting precedence that all Occupy protestors are dangerous — however, nothing in the video points out that the journalist was with the Occupy movement.
After the incident Bill O’Reilly went on air to spout propaganda for the Illuminati controlled press on the “No-Spin Zone” which, in laymen’s terms, basically means the ultimate zone of spin.
Bill said on-air “when he was about a foot away I turned and shielded myself with an umbrella… I’m lucky I had it, otherwise I would have punched the guy…. these anarchists are everywhere now.”
In an effort to shut down some of the country's busiest ports, US protesters occupied ports in the city of Long Beach on Monday despite heavy police presence.
About 200 Occupy protesters gathered at the port of Long Beach in California in the early Monday morning.
The protesters say they will close their local ports in order to disrupt the business of the country's privileged one percent.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Tighe Barry, a Wall Street protester, to discuss the issue further.
The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Don DeBar, an anti-war activist, and professor Mark Mason who is an Occupy movement protester. Following is the transcript of the interview.
Press TV: One issue that has come up in a lot of reports today is the role of the unions especially when it came to the Occupy port movement. A lot of reports were saying the unions are not supporting this.
Why do you think the unions do not or cannot give the direct support to the protesters? And how do you think that is influencing the movement?
Barry: Well, I have to disagree. I think the unions are giving a lot of support. The one thing that the Occupy here in Washington DC wants to make clear is we do support unions; we support union workers, but at the same time, for example, the SEIU [Service Employees International Union] endorsed Barack Obama without getting anything in return.
So we are just seeing that the unions cannot co-opt this effort for the Democrat Party but we always welcome union and union workers. I myself am in a union.
Press TV: But are the union leaders giving the Occupy movement the direct support maybe that it needs? Do you think the leaders are doing enough?
Barry: I think that it is a very touchy situation. I know that the unions are giving financial support; they are supporting [it] like when they came out here, they called Occupy Congress, when the unions came here on the mall, everybody worked together but the Occupy movements are being very careful not to allow the Democrat Party to take control on our occupy and we are trying to stay neutral but of course the unions, I feel, have been helpful and I think they will continue to be helpful.
Press TV: When the international community looks at this situation in America, maybe a lot of people would be expecting President Obama or other authorities to address the nation on this, to make an announcement, to say something about it, but what it looks like from outside is that, the government, the authorities, they are not paying attention or deliberately ignoring or not refusing to make any kind of statements. How are you guys feeling about this who are involved in the protest movement in the US?
Barry: Here in Washington DC, we have obviously many representatives close at hand. Just today, there was a huge protest at the White House. There were several arrests. People were there en masse to protest the visit of [Nouri] al-Maliki [Iraqi Prime Minister] and to call for another end to the Afghan war and I think the Occupy movement, the unifying message in all the occupies is 'we want dialogue'; we want dialogue with our leadership in Washington DC; we want dialogue with the business community; we want to form a new community.
We cannot go back to the same old regime; we have to change this regime; we have to change it from the bottom up and I think dialogue is important. I believe our leaders in Washington DC have ignored this. I will give you a perfect example.
Tea Party had, last year here in Washington DC, maybe 50 people in Upper Senate Park and they had 20 representatives go out there and address their group, not that we want our representatives being addressing our group but we want the representatives to actually sit down with us and listen to what we have.
We are offering change, real change; w are offering a new way forward and they need to start dialoguing with us.
Press TV: Speaking of what the protesters are demanding and how the government can be responding, as part of the protest movement, what are you expecting from the government?
When we are speaking about corporatism here, when we are speaking here about the capitalist system generally here, can the government bring about the changes the people are demanding only with minor surgery?
Are you asking the government and the authorities in the US to bring about a fundamental change to the financial system that will undermine the interests of those people who are in power themselves right now?
Barry: I just have to say my expectations from this government and any government we can elect in the future is going to be extremely low. As you see, 9 percent of the American public believes that Congress is doing a fairly decent job that is 9 percent. I think that everyone realizes that they are doing a great job for the 1 percent, but doing nothing for the 99 percent.
This government needs to start dialoguing with its people or they are going to continue having the people take to the streets, protest and it will not stop. This movement is not over.
We are growing everyday and we will continue to grow and you will see that this government will have to one day sit down and listen to the demands of the people and I hope it comes sooner than later.
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:57 am Post Subject:
Occupy protesters disrupt ports across US west coast
Demonstrators launched a co-ordinated action, forcing some ports on the west coast to halt operations
Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 December 2011 04.19 GMT
Occupy protesters stand on a railroad crossing during a march at the Port of Oakland.
More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters have blocked cargo trucks at busy US west coast ports, forcing some shipping terminals in Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon, and Washington state to halt operations.
While the protests on Monday attracted far fewer people than the 10,000 who turned out on 2 November to shut down Oakland's port, organisers declared victory and promised more demonstrations to come.
"The truckers are still here but there's nobody here to unload their stuff," said protest organiser Boots Riley. "We shut down the Port of Oakland for the daytime shift and we're coming back in the evening. Mission accomplished."
Organisers hoped the "Shut Down Wall Street on the Waterfront" protests would cut into the profits of the corporations that run the docks and send a message that their Occupy movement is not finished.
The closures' economic impact, however, was not immediately clear.
The longshoremen's union did not officially support the protests but its membership cited a provision in its contract that allowed workers to ask to stay off the job if they felt the conditions were unsafe.
Some went home with several hours' pay, while others left with nothing.
"I hope they keep it up," said Oakland longshoreman DeAndre Whitten, who lost about $500. "I have no problem with it. But my wife wasn't happy about it."
Others, such as the truck drivers who had to wait in long lines as protesters blocked gates, were angry, saying the demonstrators were harming the very people they were trying to help.
"This is a joke. What are they protesting?" said Christian Vega, who sat in his truck carrying a load of recycled paper. He said the delay was costing him $600. "It only hurts me and the other drivers.
"We have jobs and families to support and feed," he said. "Most of them don't."
From Long Beach, California, to as far away as Anchorage, Alaska, and Vancouver, British Columbia, protesters beat drums and carried signs as they marched outside port gates.
Rain dampened some protests. Several hundred showed up at the Port of Long Beach and left after several hours.
The movement, which sprang up this autumn in New York in protest at what it sees as corporate greed and economic inequality, is focusing on the ports as the "economic engines for the elite". It comes weeks after police raids cleared out most of their tent camps in city centres.
The port protests are a "response to show them that it's going to hurt their pocketbooks if they attack us brutally like that", Riley said.
Protesters have mainly targeted two west coast companies: port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT. Investment bank Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in SSA Marine and has been a frequent target of protesters.
They say they are standing up for workers against the port companies, which have recently had high-profile clashes with union workers. Longshoremen in Longview, for example, have had a longstanding dispute with EGT, which employs workers from a different union to staff its terminal. The longshoremen's union says the jobs rightfully belong to them.
The EGT chief executive, Larry Clarke, said: "Disrupting port activities makes it harder for US manufacturing, the farm community and countless others to sell to customers and contribute to our nation's economic recovery."
While the demonstrations were largely peaceful and isolated to a few gates at each port, local officials in the longshoremen's union and port officials or shipping companies determined that the conditions were unsafe for workers.
In Oakland several hundred people picketed before dawn and blocked some trucks from going through at least two entrances.
A long line of big rigs sat outside one of the entrances, unable to drive into the port. Police in riot gear stood by as protesters marched in an oval and carried signs.
Shipping companies and the union agreed to send home about 150 of the 200 morning shift workers. Protesters cheered when they learned about the partial shutdown and then dispersed.
Scott Olsen, the Marine Corps veteran who was struck in the head during a clash between police and Occupy Oakland protests in October, led nearly 1,000 people marching back to the Port of Oakland on Monday evening.
A spokesman for the longshoremen's union said shippers at the port would typically request 100 to 200 workers for the overnight shift but weren't asking for any on Monday due to the protests. Port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur said this would bring night-time operations to a virtual halt.
In Seattle police used "flash-bang" percussion grenades to disperse protesters who blocked an entrance to a Port of Seattle facility.
In Portland a few hundred protesters blocked semi-trailers from making deliveries at two major terminals.
Security concerns were raised when police found two people in camouflage clothing with a gun, sword and walkie-talkies.
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:59 am Post Subject:
OWS to change US political landscape Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:37PM GMT
Interview with Allen Roland, online columnist - go to the source link below to watch the video
Anti-Wall street protesters have shut down the port of Oakland in California amid similar protests in several other cities across the United States.
The demonstrators successfully blocked access to trucks arriving at the port and workers were sent home following the shutdown.
The protesters are led by Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen-- who was injured during a police attack on Occupy Oakland rallies in October.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Allen Roland, an online columnist in Sonoma, California, to further discuss the issue. What follows is a transcription of the interview:
Press TV: What has happened, what we have seen take place today, would you consider it as success and does it show that this movement is actually growing?
Roland: Well, once again thank you for having me on your show, but let's not make too big a deal out of this although it is .. does have sympathy. It is interesting what is happening in Los Angeles, they have shut down Oakland [port] and the midnight shift is shut down in Oakland, maybe two to three thousand people. Los Angeles protesters are basically protesting the Goldman Sachs and the cry is 'Occupy the ports, a day without Goldman Sachs,' featuring a caricature of chief executive officer Lloyd C. Blankfein [steering] a shipload of bags of money.
The company is part owner of Carex, Inc. whose [SAA] marine provids cargo handling services; it is the largest US-owned container terminal operator. So this is really an attack on Goldman Sachs so that is [tied in] with Occupy Wall Street. Therefore, it more like, 'hey we are still around folks and we haven't gone away.' That is what this is sort of like and they still sympathy and they are still getting news coverage. It is up and down the West Coast they have shut down the midnight shift at Oakland because I am very near to Oakland and they are claiming a victory but it is just really a statement that 'we are still here [and] we are not going away.
Press TV: Allan, you say you are close to Oakland, let's talk about local media coverage on the story, what is the take that has been given on this situation, this latest move by the Occupy movement?
Roland: It is not getting anywhere near the coverage that the first one did and when Scott Olsen was hurt by teargas canister, etc. No it is not getting that much coverage but it still getting coverage, but not major coverage, more like second page coverage.
Press TV: How does this in general affect this movement if the mainstream media is not really giving it very much coverage because we are talking now even local stations being in the Oakland area and not really giving it coverage. So of course, the national networks would give it even less perhaps than the local. How significant is this for a movement such as the Occupy movement?
Roland: All that the movement wants is to let people know that it is still going on so I don't know whether that is significant or not but the fact is they still close down a port, like they have done in Oakland, and they can cause chaos. The coverage, I don't think, that is particularly important as long as it is getting some coverage but this is beyond having just its presence felt, they are really right now at a point where they are making their mandates clear like, for example, Bernie Sanders' constitutional amendment to stop the corporations from having a voice; that is a reality that has really come out of the Occupy movement. So they are getting close to that second stage that I talked about before we do when the presence is over and now it time for action and part of that action is constitutional amendments. So thus this is a reminder but we are there but we already into that phase where Bernie Sanders constitutional amendment is now becoming a reality.
Press TV: December 17th, which will be the three-month anniversary of the Occupy movement, they are calling for widespread demonstrations, do you think that they will be able to get the numbers that they are looking for?
Roland: Yes, I do, and for what reason? Because guess what? We still at a not double dip recession but a deep depression, people are still suffering, people are still hurting and their voices are not still being heard. So yes, it will get a response how big I don't know they still have Goldman Sachs on their side, as well they should have Goldman Sachs. Yes, it will get coverage maybe not major but will get but what I am interested in is the constitutional amendment, that will gain the momentum across the country, it is the constitutional amendment where corporations will no longer have a voice, that will be huge.
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:23 am Post Subject:
Lots going on with this subject but not enough time to post everything. Future UK Rioters To Be Shot With 'Plastic Bullets'... How can the police themselves not see that this will simply escalate violence with victims on both sides not quell it? The absolute stupidity (of the minions & the public that go along with this) is believable!
Shooting during riots 'would inflame violence' Wesley Johnson
Tuesday 20 December 2011
The prospect of armed officers opening fire on arsonists during riots only risks inflaming violence, campaigners said today.
An official review of police tactics found officers could shoot arsonists as a last resort if they endanger life by attacking businesses attached to people's homes.
Sir Denis O'Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, called for a public debate on how much force officers should use to quell disorder similar to that which swept through English cities in August.
Plastic bullets and water cannon may also be considered in the future, he said.
Sir Denis said: "Police have to be able to defend civil order but they need support from the public and others when they do that.
Half of people surveyed for the review thought police did not use enough force during the riots, while a third thought firearms should have been used against the rioters.
A quarter of the 2,000 members of the public surveyed between September 16 and 18 thought police were already using water cannon.
Sir Denis added: "If we don't raise some of these awkward issues, then we're not giving people the chance to prepare for a future where we're slightly more assured as to what will happen.
"Some new rules of engagement are necessary so the police can protect the public in confidence.
"People were burned out of their houses. We can all remember the woman leaping from the burning building in Croydon."
Polish mother Monika Konczyk, 32, was pictured leaping to safety from her flat in a blazing building in Croydon in an image which came to symbolise this summer's riots.
There has been a "long period of peace" where civil order was not top of the agenda, but now it needs to be given priority again, Sir Denis said.
"The balance of risk has changed. We have to have the means with some certainty to protect the public.
"We need some options when someone is trying to set fire to a building that someone is in, which in an urban area is beyond reckless."
The best option was to get officers on the streets as soon as possible, but the question was what should be done to protect the public while waiting for high numbers of officers to get to the scene, he said.
But Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights campaign group Liberty, said: "How on earth would bullets have quelled and not inflamed this summer's riots? Didn't the widespread disorder all begin in Tottenham with a fatal police shooting?"
Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, added: "Endorsing the use of live ammunition is an approval of the tactics of war on London's streets and implementing such recommendations would be madness."
Policing Minister Nick Herbert said the report was simply stating the existing law in relation to the use of lethal force by the police.
Legal advice contained in the review by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said the use of firearms could be justified when lives were being endangered by arsonists attacking commercial premises given the "immediacy of the risk and the gravity of the consequences".
Officers would still have to consider which tactics have been tried before, what happened and whether any other options were available first.
Plastic bullets and water cannon may also be considered to tackle incidents such as those seen during the summer, the review said.
There are no water cannon on the UK mainland, they cost more than £1 million each and need to be deployed in twos to be effective.
A report by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee has said their use would have been "inappropriate as well as dangerous", adding they "could have escalated and inflamed the situation further".
Overall, police need to be better prepared, trained and ready to protect the public if they are to improve their response to similar scenes of violence and looting in the future, today's review found.
Some officers were "uncertain about the level of force and tactics than can be used lawfully during disorder".
"Some suggest this uncertainty increased after criticism following the 2009 G20 protests," the review said.
"Officers recognise that a single act of what could later be regarded as 'punitive force' can quickly change the public mood."
Commanders were also prevented from using some of the more forceful tactics during the riots due to a lack of training and resources.
Some forces ran out of shields, not all forces train to use plastic bullets in public order situations, and protective equipment was not always available.
The review also said that while it would be difficult to justify deploying soldiers on the streets, they could be used "to take over logistical roles to free police officers for public order duties".
Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said commanders making "critical decisions within volatile and fast-moving situations" to keep the public safe needed to be supported.
"When disorder occurs, the available tactics must include the necessary hard edge to resolve situations quickly and effectively," he said.
But he warned that more equipment and highly-trained officers only come at a cost.
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:37 pm Post Subject:
Rioting arsonists could be shot by police, review finds
Arsonists attacking commercial properties with links to people's homes could be shot by police during future riots, an official review of police tactics has recommended.
10:00AM GMT 20 Dec 2011
The use of firearms could be justified given the ''immediacy of the risk and the gravity of the consequences'', legal advice published in the review said.
Plastic bullets and water cannon could also be used by officers facing riots similar to those seen this summer, the review by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) added.
Police need to be better prepared, trained and ready to protect the public if they are to improve their response to similar scenes of violence and looting in the future, the review found.
It called for clear rules of engagement to establish ''an agreed envelope of available tactics and associated use of force, that are likely to maintain public support''.
These rules could include making clear that armed police could use firearms with live ammunition during ''arson attacks on commercial buildings with linkage to residential dwellings''.
The review added that plastic bullets could also be considered when barricades and missiles were used by protesters, during violent attacks on the public in the presence of police, and when other emergency services are threatened.
They could also be used when petrol bombs are thrown or during arson attacks.
All of these scenes were experienced by officers this summer.
The review added that water cannon were an ''effective means of dispersal and incur fewer injuries to the public'' in static and slow-moving scenarios.
They are a ''good option to protect vulnerable areas and premises'', but it conceded there were none on mainland UK, cost more than £1 million each and need to be deployed in twos to be effective.
Water cannon also have to be protected by officers and need access to water as they can empty in ''a matter of minutes'' if used continuously.
It comes in sharp contrast to a report by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday which said it would have been ''inappropriate as well as dangerous to have employed water cannon and baton rounds''.
Their use ''could have escalated and inflamed the situation further'', the MPs said.
The report said that while current guidance already allowed the use of force, commanders were prevented from using some of the more forceful tactics due to a lack of training and resources.
Some forces ran out of shields, not all forces train to use plastic bullets in public order situations, and protective equipment was not always available.
Police also need to outnumber rioters by between three and five to one if they are to effectively move forward, make arrests and disperse groups, the review said.
It found that police training, tactics, equipment and organisation was developed largely to deal with set-piece single- site confrontations, and were not prepared for the widespread, fast-moving and opportunistic criminal attacks seen in August.
But the review also said it would be difficult to justify bringing in soldiers to help tackle riots on the streets.
"It is difficult at present to conceive of a purely public order situation in which the level of force for which the military are currently trained in and equipped to use would be justified," the report said.
But the military could be used "to take over logistical roles to free police officers for public order duties".
The HMIC review also called for a "central information 'all source' hub", drawing together all information, including that from direct contact with the public and social networking sites, to be developed.
