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A hermetically sealed dome around Kenmore Square was probably judged too expensive

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Making sure we understand why we can't have nice things, Boston Police are doing everything they can to keep drunken louts from overturning cars in Kenmore Square (and near Faneuil Hall and the Garden) both today and Thursday (because you never know), in addition to banning freebie newspaper boxes and just generally trying to keep people out of the areas.

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Take the T, or walk, or bike instead. Park your car in Coolidge Corner or around MIT.

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Park your car in Coolidge Corner or around MIT.

Or anywhere outside Boston Proper.

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If I had a business in the area that lost some car-dependent customers as a result, I'd be a little put off. If I also lost customers because people in general were being kept away, I'd be furious. I'm all for street closures for a proper fair or festival, but not when they're for the purpose of keeping people out completely. Besides, the idiots will probably just do their thing on some other streets.

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This.

All these efforts will due is keep police away from areas they should be patrolling and encourage the hooligans to find a new place to riot, one that is magically bereft of police because they're all over at Fenway and the Garden.

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Instead of blaming the city or police blame the drunken idiots, most of whom are likely out of town college students. They're easy targets and mostly deserving of the stereotype as well. Live in Allston (as a grown up) for a while and you'll be bitter too.

Counteract that with how the large Brazilian populations in Allston, Framingham, etc. celebrated their last World Cup victory. Barely much of an issue at all.

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so they really aren't an issue.

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Yup, and most of the students who stay on for summer are (from my experience) international students who could not care less about the celtics.

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I do blame the drunken idiots. Anyone causing damage to people or property ought to be arrested. But what about innocent passers-by and those who want to celebrate respectfully? Those are public ways. There are honest businesses who might need to pay the rents from a big night like that.

I can't help it. I have an allergy to collective punishments that hurt the innocent.

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If the COB didn't take these sorts of precautions in neighborhoods with historical issues, I imagine bloggers living in places like Lynn would proceed to arrogate about how they would have done it better.

It's a no-win, so they do their best.

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only bars are open then.

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Since when are bars and restaurants not legitimate businesses?

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It really is unfortunate that Boston has had a series of deaths and riots after sports championships, and I understand that the city in general and BPD in particular are in a difficult position (one of the last jobs I'd want is to be a cop in Kenmore Square after a Sox or Celtics championship). But the city has decided to clamp down on bars in particular - deciding, for example, that public safety trumps the First Amendment (or has the city rescinded its ban on TV cameras in bars at the end of championship games?).

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No politician or public official has ever lost an election by "making the world more safe for everyone"...

What they regret to inform you is that this is at the expense of someone. As the size of "someone" approaches "everyone", what justice does this exactly serve?

Everyone can not celebrate in Kenmore, because Someone might get out of hand and that would harm Everyone.

Everyone can not take 4oz of hand lotion on a plane, because Someone might disguise an explosive as hand lotion, and that would harm Everyone.

Everyone can not do XYZ, because Someone might abuse the privilege, and that would harm Everyone.

Home of the free...land of the brave?

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are you saying there should or shouldn't be some limitations on our freedoms?

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I'm saying that there is no political capital in sliding the weights on the scales back in the other direction...and so we continue to march onward towards the protection of Everyone...at the expense of more Someones...until it's simply Everyone.

Whatever limitations there should be are less than the limitations we've arrived at today as a result of our continual push for "safety" at the expense of "freedom"...because we may claim to be "brave"...but we're not anymore.

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At the end of the third quarter tonight. List.

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Why don't we just put the entire city under plastic wrap, kick out all people and call it a day? A wonderfully clean day.

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tends to cause more problems then it cures.

Out of town drunks tend to like to use riot gear clad police as targets, especially when being harassed.

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