Occupy Boston, after the fiasco of the arrests...

[rasputin1952]

I'm down here at Dewey Square and have limited access to a pc, here's what i know so far...


Th3e BPD requested that Occupiers move from a recently replanted area across the street from the first site. It is being claimed that police action was "necessary" to protect $150,000 in recent additions to the Greenway. What I saw last night at about 10 PM was one plant that had been stepped on, and 3 Occupiers stating that the plant would have to replaced by them due to damage.

What happened after Midnight, (I left about 1030), became news. The BPD went into the area over the short retaining wall, ran into Veterans for Peace, who were trying to protect occupiers, and began the arrests. VfP members were knocked to the ground and arrested along w/approximately 125 others. Arraignments begin at 9 AM today, bail is $40.

The BPD did extensive damage to an area that was relatively pristine, the old, "we must destroy it, to preserve it" mindset. They went in w/dogs and tore down tents as if they were the hordes of Ghengis Khan. One of the Occupiers gave me a Vietnam Vet cap that was knocked off of a VfP members head.

I'm heading to City hall to register a complaint after posting this.

I'll update later...unless i need to have $40 for my own bail...:evilgrin:

[unhappycamper]

1. Call me if you need to get bailed out.

I'll need to know which precinct you get carted off to. :grr:

[babylonsister]

2. Thanks for the update, and keep us posted if you can. PS...

I think you're having entirely too much fun. :hug: :hi: :D

[graywarrior]

3. !

:hug:

[Aerows]

4. Thanks for the update, and thank you for staying involved

Manhandling veterans and desecrating the American flag by throwing it one the ground isn't going to end well. The BPD should be ashamed of themselves - or at least whoever ordered it should be!

[meegbear]

5. Saw the reports on 4 and 7 this morning ...

4 showed the police going into the VfP'ers and interviewed one after. Wonder what spin Fox25 and Mumbles will put on this.

Thank you for being there. :patriot: :yourock:

[RKP5637]

6. K&R!!! n/t

[mmonk]

7. Recommended.

[qb]

8. I do not understand the dumbass police commanders who order this bullshit.

It only strengthens the movement and casts the police as brutal thugs rather than protectors of the peace.

[marions ghost]

9. I dont get it either

it's counterproductive to use storm trooper tactics.

:shrug:

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. I suspect the orders originate a lot higher up the food chain.

In the mayor's office, at minimum...

[Marrah_G]

18. Orders came from Mayor Menino and Gov Deval Patrick

[truebrit71]

22. ..because it's easier to go after protesters and "hippies" than it is...

..to go after hardened, armed criminals...

[JPZenger]

26. Remember Boston 1976 during school desegregation riots

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Didn't Boston learn its lesson after the original Tea protest??

Let us know if you need bail money, I am sure we can manage to raise some for ya.

[Erose999]

12. Might be good to have a few hundred folks stay in the jail for a couple days. It will cost the city

more to house them for a day or two that it'd make from their bail money. And it'd put stress on their booking system. They might not be as willing to do mass arrests then.

[workinclasszero]

13. Those F***** SOB's! Veterans and kids slammed to the pavement!

And the wall street MF thieves go scott free! That right there is what passes for justice in America today!

I think I'm gonna be sick!

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. #occupyboston on Facebook have posted a request for legal aid donations:

https://www.wepay.com/donate/42546?utm_campaign=donations&utm_medium=link&utm_source=facebook

[Betty]

24. Thanks for that

I just sent them a little $$.

[Bobbie Jo]

15. K&R

:kick:

[girl_interrupted]

16. K&R

[OneGrassRoot]

17. Thanks for the update. Godspeed..... n/t

[Dystopian]

19. KandR

Heartfelt thanks..


peace~

[pinboy3niner]

20. K&R

Thanks for the update, Ras. :patriot:

[lunatica]

21. This will make a lot of veterans upset. I think more will show up

And it ought to make the soldiers over there in the wars real pretty mad too.

What a bunch of thugs.

[rasputin1952]

36. One of the Occupiers has a brother in Afghanistan, and when he called...

he said that when the video was seen, there was an Audible grumble. The troops were pissed that vets, and others, were being treated like this.

We're getting worldwide coverage.

[Contrary1]

23. The protesters should stay in jail as long as they can...

just to clog up the system a bit. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if many or most of them happen to experience some sort of medical problem, ie "stomach flu", and need to be checked out. :evilgrin:

[JPZenger]

25. kicked

[Ignis]

27. K&R

Thanks for reporting from the scene. Keep fighting the good fight.

:kick:

[JPZenger]

28. Excerpts from Boston Globe News Article

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/10/boston-mayor-says-sympathizes-with-protesters-but-they-can-tie-the-city/GFmOU1qwApiGhBNsNSzMIL/index.html


"Urszula Masny-Latos, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild’s Northeast regional office, said she was on the scene as a legal observer. The Guild is a national non-profit that often represents people engaged in civil disobedience. Masny-Latos said no protesters fought with police.
“They really attacked,’’ Masny-Latos said of police. "They used force that was completely unnecessary. It was just brutal. I have no idea why they arrested us with such force.’’

To her shock, Masny-Latos herself was among those arrested. She said Boston police usually respect the legal observers the guild routinely dispatches to public protests. However, even though she was wearing a green hat with the words, “legal observer’’ clearly visible, Masny-Latos said, she was the second person arrested by police. “Four officers grabbed me and dragged me,’’ she said. “I begged them to stop, they were hurting me. I have no idea why they arrested us with such force.’’

John Nilles, 74, a former Marine from Medford who served in Vietnam and is a member of Veterans for Peace, said he was knocked down during the arrests.
He believes he did not get arrested in the chaos because he got knocked down and banged up his knee.

James Woods, 52, of Roxbury, a protester who was not arrested, said this morning that police had not used their batons but he had seen them “aggressively manhandling women.” He also said police had used pepper spray on some people. The site was cleared, he said, and protesters’ cameras, tents, and clothes were thrown into a dumpster."

[midnight]

29. Stay safe.... and thanks..

[lonestarnot]

30. Welp those fuckers! Don't they know their jobs will bye bye too?

[lunatica]

35. Not if they're privatized.

[tavalon]

31. Thank you Boston police

You and your comrades in the NYPD and even the Seattle Police have helped to guarantee the strengthening of this nascent movement. It might have sputtered out on its own so you've insured it will not.

Thank you again.

The flame is not in any danger of sputtering out now, so next time, you don't need to beat us to join us.

[inna]

32. K&R and thank you; this is just maddening

[Hubert Flottz]

33. Good luck.

"This aggression shall not stand," Big Daddy BushCo.

Where's all that "freedom of speech" that W was praising the "liberated" Iraq for having a few years back. Freedom should begin at home.

This song keeps running through my troubled mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0H_anNJE4

[hue]

34. This is terrible!! The tables should turn against those thug "cops".