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Occupiers back in Dewey Square, briefly
By adamg on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 8:51pm
Anthony Bucci reports from an Occupy Boston protest march that ended on the grass by South Station:
8:35 p.m. We just charged past police into Dewey Square! Occupyboston, how does it feel to be home?!
8:39 p.m. Cars passing on Atlantic honking at us!
8:41 p.m. Dewey Square is OCCUPIED.
Tent in Dewey Square. And after it was erected and Occupiers posed for a photo in the middle of Atlantic, they marched down the Greenway to Chinatown and then through there on their way to Copley Square.
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Will someone tell their
Will someone tell their parents to please pick up their petulant children and save us all the expense of having the police, ems, and social services babysitting them? They aren't protesting anything at this point insomuch as being little attention whoring brats at taxpayer expense.
Why do they need babysitters?
They aren't consuming services - the city makes a big deal about them requiring things that they never asked for in order to 1) gin up overtime and 2) permit politicians to throw tantrums about the cost of all the unnecessary overtime.
they do need them
They do need babysitters because thats what the police do when large groups of people congregate. Its a liability thing. If something were to happen and there were no cops, these cry babies would sue the pants out of the city. Gotta love our legal system...
They may never need a cop period but it has to be there due to liability. It sucks but its how it is..
It is an overtime thing
And it serves the purposes of the politicians, so that's a win-win.
That stuff you're drinking - does it have a big smiling pitcher on it?
Liability thing
Better disband the City of Boston. Can't have a bunch of people in close proximity after all...
perhaps you don't understand
When 80-100 people walk as a group down some of Bostons most heavily traveled streets, like Boylston St., and the Surface Artery, frequently walking into oncoming traffic, the police have a duty to protect them, and the public that they continue to endanger. And before you ask, I'll ask how does it not endanger everyone involved when you walk into oncoming traffic?
The Surface Artery
I heard there was a highway above ground but we moved it underground or something.
Right?
we must remember
Whatever the actual cost is, it's a small price to pay in order to have some historic memory, albeit recent history. It's also a LOT less of a cost to taxpayers than what have been the bailouts, 0% corporate taxes, and the way low 15% on the Romneys.
Betting
Should we start taking bets to when the police come to remove them...
I'm guessing about 24 hours until they are arrested for trespassing.
These folks need to give it a rest. They now look even more stupid occupying a park they were kicked out of AND now are trespassing on.
WE GET YOUR POINT, WE DO. Now take REAL action to change the system, rather than sitting your ass in a park making like you're trying to prove a point.
Update: They were only there for a short while
See the updated original post.
I can't wait until spring. My
I can't wait until spring.
My money is on the fact that the occupods will try to re-occupy Dewey Sq. and this time the city will shut it down very quickly.
These morons also mucked up
These morons also mucked up Boylston in the Back Bay with their little "march" to Copley tonight.
Cripes.
After the melee in Oakland this weekend..
I would consider the Occupy movement pretty much over at this point. Every city that wants to get rid of them now only has to point at Oakland and say "See!?"
As I've stated before, the message of the Occupy movement here has been obfuscated by the fact that the organizers didn't just haul off and kick the professional grifters from South Station out of the encampment. They're the ones who caused all the trouble down there.
It's Over
I agree, these kids have gone from being against banks to being against police. Furthermore, I'm paying attention here and it looks like you are bowing to criticism of your report, Adam. Maybe you should be direct, you corrected your mistake and now are catching flack for it?!
Good to see
the conservative concern trolling over police needing to babysit Occupy coming from the same people who in the next thread over are continuing to voice that we can't trust police, everyone needs to be armed for safety, and we spend too much on government that wastes every cent they tax.
In one breath government is too big, a problem, and against liberty. In the next Occupy must be crushed by government, and nanny stated by the police.
You people are seriously, clinically insane. The epistemic closure and your need to fight a imaginary enemy is not healthy.
Signed,
anon²