Posted on 12/10/2011 4:02:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Hundreds of Boston police officers swooped down on the Occupy Boston encampment early this morning, arresting protesters and tearing down tents, bringing an end to the 10-week protest against economic inequality, the longest continual Occupy demonstration in the country.
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Within about 20 minutes, police had torn down the approximately 50 tents that remained on the square. A front-end loader scooped up debris and junk from the camp was loaded into a garbage truck.
Love it ! If nothing else, Boston’s Finest are at least efficient.
Just why is this happening? I thought that the DIMs loved the OWS “protesters”? Just what happened...a mistake?
wonder how long they would let the tea party hang out in one spot no matter the permits?
You mean on my way home this morning (working an overnight shift) I won’t have hippies to mock? :(
Does this mean the dance party definitely ain’t happening????
The dream is dying!!!! YAY!
Someone must have said they were a Tea Party group in disguise. :P
This is the mildest December and November in my memory. If we had had a 1977-78 season, they would all be home by now. Or dead.
Mayors in the liberal OWS cities were told from the top to shut down this bunch of miscreants.
The mayors gladly obliged because it was costing the cities a lot of money (law enforcement, sanitation and loss of tourism).
The DBM got the message not to make a big deal of it. So the protests that were starting to be a big embarrassment to Democrats went into that good night with nary a whimper.
If they begin to materialize in the spring, they won’t even get off the ground before they’re shut down again. The thumb screws are in place now.
Last thing Democrats want is a bunch of civil unrest leading into the election. They’re already putting in place a ban on OWS groups near the Charlotte DNC convention next summer. I’m not sure how they’ll carry this off since a good many of the OWS protesters will be inside the hall. They’ll be the delegates.
The lefty Mayor opened his mouth and said he would take action. He probably hated to do it, but rushing a few fellow lefies is preferable to seeming ineffectual.
And what have the stupid liberals learned from this exercise?
Nothing. They will keep doing it. On Boston’s Ch 5 the other night one of them promised “we’ll move to the suburbs next”.
Oh really, like Salem which, during Halloween had “Occupy Salem” on a small piece of land nr downtown...only it wasn’t really Occupy because they realized they couldn’t camp out
(or didn’t want to) so they just stood out there with anti-war
signs, etc.
On my facebook a college buddy of mine said no longer will people be subjected to “Lynn Beach at low tide” (famed
for smelly algae) and he linked to a vid with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell”. In the Boston Herald someone scoffed at people calling them “hippies”. They sure looked like hippies to me in pix I saw, including signs featuring what some call “the peace sign” and some “the footprint of
the American chicken”.
This was a chance for college kids born WAY after the 60s
to dress as their parents or maybe grandparents did, or perhaps with a bit of grunge thrown in, and get out the old chants: Hey hey! Ho ho! Wall Street has got to go! What do we want, when do we want it. etc.
They have killed business. Boston has a place called Milk St. Cafe and the owners set up another one nr Zuccotti Park, NYC...first the NYC Milk St Cafe had to lay off a bunch of people due to loss of business from the protestors, and recently it was said they might shut down
totally. This isn’t a big corporation, it’s a small/medium sized business.
And they think this will bind them to their cause? The last time we saw protests like these, the people responded by 49 states voting for the Republican presidential candidate.
(Mass. of course was “The One And Only”, as bumper stickers proclaimed. Heck I was 10 in ‘72 but I remember those.)
Dec 13, 2007...snow/ice storm shuts down Boston, huge traffic jams as state and private workers, school kids etc all get out at the same time. Christmas shoppers suddenly have to head home. Gridlock..(I work a night shift at the post office and it took me 3.5 hours to get to work...some 18 miles away) Anyway, not just gridlock but ice, snow, cold. What if it were like that...
I suspect that's why dems are blocking 'Occupy' from their Charlotte meeting...
Boston had these type of protestors in 2004 when Kerry “reported for duty” at what was then the Fleet Center downtown (now TD Garden, where the Bruins skate and the Celtics’ sneakers
squeak on the parquet floor) for the ‘04 DNC. Police kept them in line and gave them a small section to gather in.
The same DBM around here was showing the slow pulldown of the camp, admittedly showing the big failure it was but of
course getting the message out by interviewing the residents of the Boston Moonbat Zoo, as I call it, and
hardly any people with brains like us. Ultra-left newspapers like the Weekly Boston Phoenix glorified them.
>>loss of tourism
Many tourists come to Boston for First Night, the New Years’ celebration. Some come to shop for Christmas before then. It had to go.
Let me recommend Occupy Harvard, just next door and still a going concern AFAIK -- I'm sure Elizabeth Warren will welcome her intellectual progeny with open arms!
BTW, did anyone catch Todd Feinberg on the 'RKO morning show last week or so -- he opined that as far as he could tell, all America's problems today have their roots in Harvard -- LOL! Too true!
And -- just to pass this along and give it wider currency -- one of the callers to the morning show referred to those less-than-useful idiots as the "Occu-poopers," which seems like as good a term as any . . . ;-)
Dewey Square is not on any tourist route. It's not at any shopping center. It's beside one of the busier commuter rail stations. Bostons office workers are the most affected by the smell.
Dewey Square is not on any tourist route. It's not at any shopping center. It's beside one of the busier commuter rail stations. Bostons office workers are the most affected by the smell.
You’re right though someone called up Howie and mentioned the bit about the city not wanting them there for First Night at least...even if there were to be no events for First Night there (not sure if there are) some people might go near there and get a negative impression of the city. Similar to how cities that hold political conventions bus the homeless/
vagrants off somewhere else for awhile and try to clean up
litter, etc.
I think First Night runs along the Emerald Necklace (Boston Common and Commonwealth Avenue and takes in the Theater District and Boylston Street. I thought it poetically fitting the the Occupy Boston refuse was spread out at the beginning of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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