By
Matthew
Russell Lee
WALL
STREET,
September 17
-- Two blocks
east of
Zuccotti Park,
the once
and perhaps
future Liberty
Square, the
Federal
Reserve Bank
of New
York was
surrounded by
police on
Monday morning
as the Occupy
Wall
Street
movement
celebrated its
first
anniversary.
Despite
the
year's many
changes, from
Arab Spring to
economic
downturn in
southern
Europe, the
Federal
Reserve has
remained as
unaccountable
and
untransparent
as before.
The
Fed did
nothing to
reign in the
predatory loan
trading of
Citigroup
and the other
Big Three. It
approved the
formation of a
Fifth,
Capital
One through
buying ING
DIRECT, then
withheld
from Inner
City
Press and
others documents
about its
review.
Now
amid the LIBOR
interest rate
fixing
scandal, the
Federal
Reserve has
denied Freedom
of Information
Act requests
from Inner
City Press and
others, find
court
challenges or
reversals
unlikely.
Monday
the Federal
Reserve Police
were parked in
front of the
FRBNY's
slammed shut
massive doors.
Across the
street, the
New York
Police
Department
guarded JP
Morgan Chase,
while arrests
were made on
the
corner of Pine
and William
Streets.
Former
Philadelphia
police
Captain Ray
Lewis looked
on, shaking
his head.
Back
in front of
Brown Brothers
Harriman, OWS
protesters
posed with
masks
of Obama and
Romney. Then
they set off
marching
behind a
puppet Lady
Liberty,
toward Wall
Street again.
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