Carrol wrote: "Is 'Get the' an imperative construction? Are you ordering Joann to move somethingout of the OPD? What is the JTTF?"
FM: Yes, Carrol. I, F.M. Imperator, order Joanna to immediately remove the JTTF from the Oakland Police Department. Snap to it, Joanna.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force had been around in an inchoate form before 9/11. But after 9/11 it was used to allow the FBI and Homeland Security to create franchises within local police departments across the country. The separation between local police and regional FBI branches was considered too much of a security risk under the era of Homeland Security so the JTTF moved in on key "at risk" cities. Since roughly 2003 they've been training and setting up tactical frameworks for local police departments like Portland, OR or Oakland, CA as well as infiltrating, surveilling and often setting up and arresting local activists. The Portland area was used by the JTTF to crack down on environmental activists in what is now called "The Green Scare". Many of those activists remain in jail under weighty sentences. In Oakland the 2003 brutal suppression and shut down of the burgeoning alliance between the ILWU dock workers and anti-war activists had the JTTF's style written all over it, so does this current suppression of Occupy Oakland.