Posted on 12/02/2011 10:17:58 AM PST by raccoonradio
BOSTON (CBS) Mayor Tom Meninos patience with Occupy Boston is starting to run thin.
Menino said the city has been very patient with the protestors and he says he agrees with them on many issues. But, he is furious that some Occupy members tried to bring an industrial-sized kitchen sink into the Dewey Square site Thursday night.
Protesters then allegedly tried to prevent police from removing it.
One person, 26-year-old Gary Williams of Quincy, was arrested on charges of assault and battery on a public employee.
Police say he ripped a police radio from an officers belt and was carrying a folding knife.
Im not going to allow them to put up a kitchen sink and occupy (that) area of the city of Boston. (Weve) allowed them to stay for the last two months. I am mayor of all the people, not just 200 people who live on a little piece of dirt in the city of Boston. I want to make sure were putting the rules and regulations of the city of Boston in place at this time, Menino told reporters Friday.
This is beyond their rights. Were letting them stay there, were not going to have them build a new town in there.
At this time we have no plans for eviction, but I have public safety issues. If they break the public safety rules, were going to go after them, he said.
They cant just keep on rubbing it in our faces and say Were going to do all this stuff and you guys are bad. There has to be a little give on their part. Weve given a lot with them the last two months and I want them to respect the other people in the city of Boston. Theres 630,000 people that live in this city.
We had the normal number of officers on last night and that clearly was not enough to deal with the occupiers, so weve increased that number now. Unfortunately, its going to cost us more money, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Friday.
To paraphrase Mumbles, it’s starting to “Fry his nose”.
Mumbles, (the enabler,) the gift that keeps on giving. No one to blame but yourself dumbo.
Don't you mean DEvolving?
The mayors and city councilmen are too afraid of bucking the media's dishonest portrayal of the camps to do anything about them.
In addition, and in a complete reversal of the sixties' hard-hat riots, many private and public sector unions are in high-profile 'solidarity' with OWS.
Throw in many college professors who were, for the most part, too young to fight in the 'struggle' of forty-five years ago and see OWS as "their turn" and a self-dis-enfranchised middle class youth, top it off with LaRaza, anti-US immigrants, anarchist nihilists, a class-warfare cheerleader in the White House and you have a protest co-alition that is a marxist's wet dream.
This is nothing but a dress rehearsal. They will be back next spring...count on it.
OMG - a grown-up in Boston? Stunning...
evolving or devolving doesn’t matter -— the change has a life of its own and we are not going to stop it -— we may obstruct it for a while and maybe alter its course a degree or two but it will eventually crush us.
Maybe the Occu-Pies are worried that the board of health would shut them down if they didn't have the proper sink at their 'establishment'.....*snicker*
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