Convention plan puts protesters blocks away

The Boston Globe ^ | 2/20/2004 | By Rick Klein, Globe Staff

[To Hell With Poverty]

Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.

[To Hell With Poverty]

"in an area that until recently was given over to the elevated artery"

Yeah, great, let's dance on the rubble of the Big Dig. Just rub it in why don't you, you creeps.

Truly a no-man's land. And if we're lucky, the stink of fish from the Haymarket stalls will be lingering in the air.

You folks from outside of Boston can't know, but those of us unfortunate souls who are can see what a true insult this really is.

[To Hell With Poverty]

ping. ugh.

[Gringo1]

It will be all the usual way-left whackos protesting anyway. Republicans don't protest because we have jobs.

[an amused spectator]

Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.

Damn you, George Bush! ;-)

[bondjamesbond]

Clearly it's ALL GEORGE W. BUSH'S FAULT!

[ErnBatavia]

Republicans don't protest because we have jobs.

Maybe they've learned the meaning of "getting Freeped"...

[Doctor Stochastic]

Haymarket Square"

[Cultural Jihad]

"What's the point to just have a rally, when you don't have an audience for whom the rally is organized?" Masny-Latos said.

As a suggestion, maybe Boston can arrest all the delegates and force them to sit and listen to the planned tirades. After all, we wouldn't want anyone's 'right to be heard' to be infringed upon!

[DBrow]

What we need is a big argon laser, a scanner, and a cloudy night.

We can write protest messages for half the city to see.

Also, regular old slide projectors aimed out windows at billboards and blank walls.

As long as we don't do this within 60 days of the election...

[To Hell With Poverty]

Well, if the police are going on strike like they threaten to, who's gonna be around to keep us away???

[To Hell With Poverty]

DBrow, those are cool ideas!

[BostonianRightist]

who's gonna be around to keep us away???

National Guard.

This truely is an insult, but the BPD has been really cool with us in the past. They may just let us march to the FleetCenter saying they couldn't have possibly controlled the "unruly republicans".

I also heard from GuinnessBoy that an anrchist group, the Black Tea Society, is planning to protest as well. We'll have to be sure to separate ourselves from them, if not physically then ideologically. I suggest signs with the GOP Elephant (i think this elephant needs a name, a term of endearment) and BIG AMERICAN FLAGS!

[DBrow]

Slide projectors are easier to implement than the laser, and less likely to be shut down for violating some ordinance or other.

Boston FReepers, are there good spots to do this anywhere in the downtown area? Or near highways?

[DBrow]

http://www.midwest-laser.com/html/gxl_self-contained_laser_show.html

http://www.laser-light-show.com/syst.htm

http://www.lasershs.com/low_cost_LaserShow_Graphics_Package.htm


People with money to burn may be interested in one of these. The last link has a 150 mw Green text scanner for (only) $9000, but put in a van it could project bright green laser text on a wall a hundred feet away, or could reverse-project onto one of those white tents you see at outdoor events. The folks inside would see your text scrolling across the tent!

Don't monkey around with this idea, laser safety should be the first concern and all local laws and permits attended to for outdoor laser light shows.

[To Hell With Poverty]

There is a HUGE parking garage fairly close to the Fleece Center, I suppose we could sneak up and unfurl some huge-ass banner or other. Also, as a matter of business the Fleece Center always projects either the Celtics' or the Bruins' logo on the outer wall of the building, facing downtown. Sounds like a target to me.

Bostonian, wouldn't it be cool to make a big papier-maché elephant thing like the lions they have in Chinatown on Chinese New Year? I'd love to give those Bread and Puppet hippies a run for their money.

I just wonder how many of the surrounding buildings will be guarded for homeland security reasons. As far as FReepin' goes, this is a very "target-rich environment."

Oh yeah, anyone know how much an airplane banner ad costs? I don't think it's really that expensive.

[Hon]

Vietnam Veterans Against The War block Collins Avenue in Miami Beach during the Republican National Convention in August 1972, demanding a meeting with Richard Nixon.

[Flightdeck]

It's weird you said that about the laser; I was just thinking the other day if you could use lasers and clouds as a photoprojector. I actually anticipated that people would be so pissed off that they were forced to see the "advertising" that it would backfire. So, in that case, I would plaster Kerry's name all over the sky, and Bush would win 49 states.

[guinnessboy]

Gentlemen I am in no matter what, I have a very humorous picture of the GW Turkey shoot with Saddam's, Osama's, Howard Dean's, and the Clinton's heads super imposed over the turkey on the silver platter. I plan to make this poster sized and with no words whatsoever on it, I think this picture will speak volumes in itself-HA! And of course old glory is a must.