Responding to questions about massive arrests of peaceful protesters overnight, Boston mayor Thomas Menino said this:
“Civil disobedience doesn’t work for Boston; it doesn’t work for anyone.”
Yep. It sure didn't work for the Boston Tea Party rebels. It didn't work for the U.S. labor movement. It didn't work for Gandhi.
And it certainly never worked for Rosa Parks, did it?
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“We will tolerate demonstrations, we will tolerate expressions of free speech but when it comes to civil disobedience we have a real issue with that, that is why we moved in last night.”
Yep, I remember from history class that the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the government's right to label free speech intolerable, restrict peaceable assemblage, and limit the number of people who can associate at one time.
Interesting that you claimed that the protesters were "getting out of control,” yet it was your Torie guards who assaulted citizens and looted their property.
According to radio station WBUR, the Torie mayor of Boston “'sympathizes' with many of the issues taken up by Occupy Boston, such as problems with corporate America, equity and the foreclosure crisis."
Good job, Mayor. Pretend to have some "sympathy" for the people who are being screwed out of their homes, their pensions, their educations, their jobs, their future. Remember to fake some sympathy for the American military veterans you arrested last night while they were protecting American civilians exercising their civil rights. When you ransacked their village and tossed their belongings into garbage trucks, I assume you threw their American flags in with the rest of the stuff you trashed, including the flag that was dragged across the ground while you arrested the veteran who was holding it.
Not too much sympathy, though, Mr. Mayor. After all, you have promised your Torie bosses that you will close all the occupy encampments "in the near future."
Tolerant bastard.