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Judge bars city from booting Occupy Boston until at least Dec. 15
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Not entirely accurate: the
Not entirely accurate: the judge will render a decision no later than Dec. 15. It could be earlier.
The opening two sentences of that WBUR report say it both ways, contradicting each other.
Question: Does anybody really believe
that Occupy Boston represents a health or safety hazard to the general public? I think those claims are complete bullshit. Aesthetic displeasure is not a health hazard.
I Believe the Fire Marshal
I think the likelihood of a fire is pretty slim if OBers are cautious, but if one started at night then forget it -- there would definitely be fatalities. I've walked around OB several times. Even during the day you have to watch your step. In the dark even moreso. You'd be ignoring reality to say otherwise.
Do I believe it warrants 'round-the-clock police presence? No way. I'd lay money that there's been less violent crime at Dewey Square in the past two months than there is at any single sports championship parade.
Maybe not to the public in
Maybe not to the public in general but to themselves. With all those tents so close together all it takes is a strong wind and one tent to go up in flames and it just mushrooms from there.
I got a chuckle
When the fire chief said that they (the city) can't properly "Protect them" without bothering to emphasize what exactly they need to be "protected from".
I'm sure a few anti-Nanny State Republicans groaned. I did, and I'm progressive.
Funny enough, if this wasn't all a ideological pissing match, conservatives would be pretty pissed at the hubris of the Boston city government for trying to shut this down along those lines.
Safety hazard
Actually it is a safety hazard. Who knows what they're smoking up in there, and how they are heating themselves in the cold. It's a over crowded campground in a glorified traffic island. Tragedy would happen if there was a fire.
Meanwhile, if anyone else wanted to "occupy" the Greenway, they'd have to get a permit. Somehow Occupy Boston seems to think it's above the law,
Can the judge order them to
Can the judge order them to stay thoughout the winter?
Meanwhile, OccupyJP...
judged an elderly woman for carrying a Whole Foods bag before adjourning to the nearest bar to boot around ideas for its "informational march." The goal is to get someone to notice they exist by at least Dec. 15.
Where does the judge live?
Where does this judge live? I'm heading over there to sleep on her lawn tonight. Maybe then she'll get it.
Get what?
that you don't understand the difference between private property and public space? Great point...
He does
He sells private property at overinflated prices and moans about public property used as green space. All those luxury Boston condos that could have been...
;)
Somehow, I get the feeling that sooner or later,
the "Occupiers" on the Greenway are going to outstay their welcome, lose a lot of sympathy and support, and it'll result in some of the nastier kind of abuses that're taking place in other areas throughout the country. Not a good scenario, I admit, but I think that a line has to be drawn somewhere.