Occupy Boston’s “vision” of democracy: racism, crime and third world conditions

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We now have a clearer picture of what the “occupy” movement has planned for their version of a new America… and it’s a society that is riddled with drug crimes, sexual assaults, arguments, third world conditions and racism. Proudly solidified in the the ACLU brief’s introduction, filed in the Suffolk Superior Court on behalf of the Occupy Boston movement, is a rather twisted vision of what the movement insists is “what Democracy should look like.”

Citizens walking by Dewey Square on Atlantic Avenue – or stopping in at Occupy Boston to satisfy their curiosity about what Occupy Boston is all about – see all of this in action; the tent city, the community complete with a library, medical facilities, media and the community’s legislature. They see that the exemplar community visually before them is what Occupy Boston protestors believe and advocate democracy should look like; a more just, more democratic, more economically egalitarian system than the current version of democracy in the United States.

Okay… I’ll bite. Is this the new utopia in our future?

Boyo… talk about “poetic license”….

And I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that the glorious lifestyle depicted above are all courtesy of those that actually work for a living, and were saps enough to donate tho this “cause” of “democracy. It surely isn’t supported by the occupants, themselves.

Even if the accommodations look less appealing than the digs of the POTUS Kenyan brother, what about the civil society they tout as superior? According to the Boston Police Commissioner, even as recently as yesterday, the increase in crimes for drug sales, vandalism and assaultive behavior has ticked up dramatically, and cost the city taxpayers up to $750,000 in police overtime so far. Also on the rise is prostitution.

Crime is just one perk of this utopian vision. The city’s health officials find the poor storage of food is attracting rodents, and there’s a dearth of showers and toilets for the 134 tents in this version of “democracy”. Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, has visited this utopian dream and observed “some occupants defecating in the Dewey Square shrubbery,” and reveled in the pungency of human urine.

“It is my opinion that the camp, in its current condition, provides an environment that can facilitate the spread of viruses and communicable diseases,’’ Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, wrote in an affidavit.

“Further, the condition of the camp, transient nature of the campers, and lack of an identifiable or accountable person to consistently employ health and safety measures can result in the spread of serious and potentially life threatening illness among the campers,’’ she wrote.

She added, “These health hazards will not abate if the current conditions are allowed to persist.’’

Also less than thrilled with this new vision of “democracy” is Boston Fire Marshal Bart Shea, calling it appalling and a “chaotic scene. What with all the smoking, and disposing cigarettes near combustible debris, incense burning; and dangerous extension cords, the place is a fire trap. It’s dangerous not only for the utopian denizens, but constitutes an obstacle course for firemen. While “winterizing” this already idyllic setting, draping flammable tarps over already risky tent materials, firemen face serious trip hazards by poorly placed ropes used to secure the tents.

As the pièce de résistance… or icing on the cake, if you prefer… this little democratic utopia has now had one of it’s ostracized own, Jamal Crawford, break away from the group and form another – citing charges of racism.

Community activist Jamal Crawford said elements such as “racism and white privilege” have been “hindrances to forward progress,” in an e-mail he sent to occupiers, demanding certain things change. “I can’t say all of OB is racist or OB itself is racist [but] we witnessed and experienced white privilege and racism,” he said.

Last week, Crawford sent the “demands” to garner support for OTHB.

The e-mail circulated quickly, getting mixed reactions from protesters, before he was invited to a general assembly to talk about certain requests.

But due to a lack of a quorum, no vote was made on the measures.

Frustrated with the inaction, Crawford said he later received e-mails he claims were “an all out attack on his character” because of his demands and how they were worded.

Occupy the Hood Boston has got it’s own little flashy power fist logo going as well, and insist their birth was “on the cusp of 2 very significant events in Black History, the 45th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party Oct. 15, 1966 & The Million Man March Oct. 16, 1995.” They insist all those white folk in the more upscale utopian village lack the voice to speak for People of Color…. and denounced their refusal to set aside a day devoted just to issues featuring those of color.

Ah… ya gotta love it when the PC world, created by just these types of thinkers, comes back and bites them in the tush.

The Golden Age - Lucas Cranach (the elder)
But wait… this is what democracy is supposed to “look like”, right? At least, so they tell us in the dueling briefs…

“Occupy Boston’s tent city and 24 hour-a-day 7 day-a-week community is … expressing the message that there is the possibility of a more fair, democratic, and economically egalitarian society,” the brief says. “It is the message of the Occupy protests.”

To that end, Occupy Boston’s lawyers also filed affidavits from local teachers and students who said they visited the Occupy Boston camp to learn more about the Occupy movement. Richard Feigenberg, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Open School in Cambridge, described a field trip that he took with his students to learn about the Occupy movement’s message.

“By our direct observation during our visit, we saw Occupy Boston participants demonstrating an alternative way of people relating to each other, as part of their message concerning the control exerted by the 1 percent over our social institutions.”

I don’t know about you, but count me soooo *not* on board with this idyllic version of America. I don’t know about other parents, but I’d be disinfecting my kid after that field trip.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino, apparently one of those who also can’t appreciate their vision of utopia, told Newscenter 5, “I want to have the tools to remove them from the Dewey Square area.” Like most officials, cowered by the prospect of bad press when the infestants refuse to cooperate, he doesn’t have any current plans to remove them… just wants to be ready when the situation is so dire he has no choice. Tick tock, tick tock.

But the city officials ran up against activist Suffolk Superior Court Judge, Frances McIntyre, who granted a restraining order against the City of Boston for removing this lovely little example of “democracy” a little over a week ago. Back in court today – with the infestants represented by the usual suspects, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild – Judge McIntyre kicked the can down the road on a ruling, and said she’d make a decision over the encampment’s legality no later than Dec 15th.

Again the legal beagles are attempting to insist that camping and occupation is a 1st Amendment right, despite a contrary ruling in New York, upholding the right for officials to clear out Zuccotti Park. Little details like precedents don’t bother Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. Her group is special…. they are, after all, the poster children for “what democracy is supposed to look like”, right?

Rose explains the difference between a New York judge saying the Occupiers don’t have a first-amendment right to be in Zuccotti Park, yet a judge in Boston said Occupiers do have a first-amendment right to be in Dewey Square.

“The facts on the ground are different,” says Rose, citing a public park versus legislation and peaceful protesters versus violent protesters.

????

What does violent or peaceful have to do with violations of permits, health codes, fire safety regulations, and being a crime pit in a park that doesn’t allow overnight, let alone permanent camping? Is the rule of law good for a civil society? Or is it not?

We should be thankful that Ms. Rose admits that if the camp is found to be the infestation it already is, that police could, and should, be dismantling this icon of democracy. But Ms. Rose will still have her hands full since some are already planning for a showdown.

FOX 25 spoke with protesters who indicate they will not quietly leave their Dewey Square encampment. Several of them say if the city wants them out, they will have to physically remove them.

Democracy, or mob rule and a disregard for simple laws for a civil society? I guess this bunch has a vision of freedom and “democracy” that’s totally foreign to me… and I daresay to the Founders and Framers.

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One of the central features of the “occupy” movement is that of holding property in common.
We have heard about tents, sleeping bags and blankets as well as food being given freely to whoever needs them.

One hallmark about private ownership of property is that you will most likely take care of your own property.

Thus, whenever an ”occupy” encampment is given ample warning that it is being closed for cleaning or for any other reason, a gigantic pile of stuff is left abandoned.
In the City Hall Park in Los Angeles over 30 TONS of stuff was left behind.
Not all of that trash was urine in jars and ten-foot long bamboo canes (some were collecting these to use against police).
Not much of it was fast food wrappers or paper coffee cups, either.
A huge portion of it was tents, sleeping bags, backpacks and blankets.

See.
If you didn’t buy it, you might not value it….at all.
The group left all these goods behind because they didn’t belong to anyone in particular.

Photo reminds me of a medieval fair. How utopian is living with poop?

Well see how life is with you when the GOP gives our democracy completely over to corporations and the middle class is-over.

Whoaaaa! Are these the same people that tout the Republicans “want to bring/send/set this country back 100 years…or was that 200 years???”

It’s rather clear LiberalMann (iPod edit, it wanted moron when I did NOT type an O.) has mistaken a free market Captialist system as Corporatism. Liberalmann, I highly suggest you go and take a political sciences course to figure out the differences between, “Republic,” “Democracy”, “Federal Republic”, “Astrocratic Republic,” “Corporatism,” “Fascism,” and “Oligarchy.”

Your misunderstanding of political ideology and what is and is not Capitalism is not good for you to keep treading on.

Occupy Boston is a hideous embarrassment to the city. I walk by this horrid encampment almost every day on the way to the bank and it’s the biggest eyesore I’ve seen in Boston since Barney Frank.

@Liberalman#3 I’m just curious…If these Occupy are so against anything that is Corporate….and they want democracy….why don’t they take their donated monies and buy some land and go live there? Heck in a few years they will have their own complete town….? This way they can just ignore anything and everything that has to do with the ‘corporations’…Heck then they can do whatever the hell they want… Build their own log cabins [or tent city], they can grow their own ‘organic food’ make their own clothes, dig their own wells, herd sheep [the animals], and have some farms…. you know like the Amish do…. Your Utopia Found!!

See, then these people will own the land and they cannot get kicked off or out…? Why would they not think this would be a great idea, since they are basically doing that now?

In their defense [only at the beginning] Occupy had some good points, like the ‘crony’ capitalism Obama and his ilk have let run a muck [this has occurred on both sides of the isle btw], the ‘Corporations’ and ‘Banks’ that were bailed out…who are now in Obamas pocket…I am sure you don’t agree with the ‘Insider Trading’ that does and has been occurring by our Members of Congress??….I mean that is something any one of ‘us’ would go to Federal Prison for years for…

While not having had the benefit of the experience to visit one of these camps, I need to ask where the “electricity” for these people is coming from? How is it that extension cords are strewn about? Who is paying for the electricity for this event (lawful or unlawful)? Could they not just “turn off the power” in a city like Boston and put an end to most if not all of this?

These durn Commie hippies with their bags of dope!

Dear FA OWS coverage: Having Allen Ginsberg flashbacks, are we? Could you possibly peddle clichés that are more hilariously expired, sound more out of touch, come off as more helplessly bitter and confused? Is this all you have, goofy pictures and scorn for how these saggy tents wouldn’t pass muster at your holiday RV park? Does it hurt this much to be thrust back into the role of disapproving Law & Order establishment after your little Tea Party flirtation with government protest, hurt so badly that your reduced to an unrelenting whine about how this countries going to hell in a hand basket!? Corporate America must be thrilled to have such accommodating puppets. My only word of advice: if nothing else, please bring the insults into the 21st Century.

ERIC
a very good point, how come they didn’t think to shut the power for their computer,
that is so easy and they would cry violence and abuse, but would not be able to live without their expansive gadget,
super idea

The GOP would rather pay attention to ridiculous stories while the GOP is selling our democracy to the highest bidders. Look over here! Whoooppp – the middle class is gone!

The GOP just passed to end the payroll tax cut for the middle class. That means those will pay between $1000 – $1500 a year while the GOP continues to protect the tax cuts for the wealthy which were never paid for.

No, Liberalmann, the GOP Conservatives did not pass the Payroll tax cut. House Democrats with RINO backings passed the Payroll tax cut that goes into Social Security, and was an idea promoted and shoved though by President Obama. Nice try to spin stuff, but it ain’t true from your words.

Liberalmann, you seriously need to stop trying to used failed Marxism opinions in how currency flows and resources work and take a real Law of Scarcity/Law of Supply and Demand with Microeconomic Demand Impact an Individual courses in Economics. A lot of the OWS morons out there go bat shit crazy to buy the next big thing from Apple, SONY, Microsoft, etc but are quick to ramble on about the evils of Captialism. Irony much?

The old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a perfect caption for the OWS movement in Boston. “This is what democracy looks like”, NO this is what a medieval cholera infested squalid encampment looks like. These nitwits will go back to their parents basements a soon as the MSM stops romanticizing them.

Liberalman, could you tell us how you would fix it? What makes the “other” side so compelling? How would you rule the world?

What’s that white-haired senior citizen doing in the November 23rd Occupy Boston picture up above? She doesn’t quite seem to fit the degenerate hippy bum or bomb-throwing anarchist profile.

Actually, the photo also suggests a rather orderly encampment. A clean and uncluttered walkway, neatly laid out gear, a sign showing the way to medical assistance . . . What’s that just to the right of the red cross sign? It looks like a highchair.

Are you sure you know who these people really are?

@Greg:

What’s that white-haired senior citizen doing in the November 23rd Occupy Boston picture up above? She doesn’t quite seem to fit the degenerate hippy bum or bomb-throwing anarchist profile.

You do realize, don’t you, that the 30 something hippy of the 1960’s would be today’s “white-haired senior citizen”?

Hippy bum or bomb-throwing anarchists come in all shapes, sizes, and ages. Just ask Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

AYE
hi
that show that GREG can pick a profile but cannot figure in what possible ranks
he will classify that profile. IT could be the mistake someone can make ,
when the MILITARY convoy circulate on the roads of the warzone
IN AFGHANISTAN, WHEN THEY SEE A WOMAN COMING NEAR BY smiling
AND DETONATE HER BELT, AS THEY ARE LOOKING AT HER
smiling
BYe

Bees, greg is just trying to find some way, any way to defend his fellow marxists. He knows she’s a Fister. As I’ve said elesewhere, he has no problem with lying for the left.

Hard Right
yes you nailed it right on.
bye