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Pro Palestine Protestors Arrested
Block traffic and mess up lots and lots of people downtown - No problem! Let the people speak!
Interrupt the Mayor patting herself on the back in front of a cheering section - Out come the jackboots.
What a double standard she weaves.
(PS - Market rents are stabilizing without government intervention.)
Yeah John
there's absolutely no difference between a public street and the interior of an event venue.
Double Standard
Everyone else inconvenienced - No problem.
She's inconvenienced (at a public event) - Problem.
Just like passing the blame on the car crash onto the victim when her driver was clearly at fault. It is not right.
If Marty Walsh had people arrested last night, this board would have more howling than a wolf convention during a full moon.
The bias is unreal.
am i missing something>?
according to the article the protestors inside were also pro-palestinian, which isn't necessarily anti-Wu. in fact, Wu seems to embrace the protest based on the transcript.
are you suggesting a private property has no right to eject disruptive people? i'm cool with it if you are but my goodness, what a can of worms you'd be opening.
Next time
Protest in John's living room.
If a person wants protestors off his/her property,
that's the property owner's right, and they have the right to call the police to get the protesters off of their property if they refuse to leave on their own.
Public streets are for
Public streets are for everyone, not just drivers. This country wouldn't exist without people protesting in the streets. You better be working on monday because MLK loved protesting on public streets.
The problems with blocking traffic:
The problems with blocking traffic, however, are as follows:
A) If someone needs to bring their pet(s) to the veterinarian on an emergency basis, blocking traffic increases the chances that a seriously ill or injured pet won't survive, and pets are extremely important to people, and are not as easily replaceable as is believed by a lot of people.
B) When an emergency vehicle (such as a fire engine, cop car, or an ambulance) is trying to get to the scene of a fire, a crime, such as an assault or a robbery, especially), or a seriously ill or injured person is being transferred to the hospital, every second of every minute really does count. It used to be that the organizers of such street sit-ins would make the demonstrators move aside to allow emergency vehicles to get through, but that's no longer the case.
C) Being late to work, or an important medical appointment, could cost a person his/her job, or his/her life.
D) I stand by everything I've said here, and if other people don't agree with me, or are bothered by what I've said, well...that's their problem.
I don't see it as a double standard
but rather different standards for different circumstances.
Like how the regulation of commercial trucks vs the regulation of passenger cars is different from each other.
Ah, leave John alone
He inherited his triple decker income property. It's hard to realize how much work it takes to build from the ground up when such an asset is handed to such an "owner".
It's also funny that a guy like him argues for the rights of property owners, but flip-flops when a venue like MGM Music Hall asserts its right to reject an interruption by protestors.
I usually just ignore his posts. If everyone else does the same he, and the others like him will go away.
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I inherited $5,875 after settling my dad's estate but thanks for assuming things.
Piss off.
I am not going away.
For everything good (except
For everything good (except rent control) against everything bad. Can't argue with this program.
The free museum admission for
The free museum admission for BPS families is a great idea. Poor kids should be able to enjoy what is offered in the city too.
I like that one too
I hope lots of families take advantage of it. On a similar topic Harvard Museum of Natural History as well as their Museum of Science & Culture has free admission for any MA resident before noon every Sunday and on Wednesday evenings Sept-May.
https://www.harvardsquare.com/venue/harvard-museum-of-natural-history/
Perhaps they can get reciprocity with Brookline
I'm sure the kids would love a free visit to the Larz Anderson Auto Museum.
Free museums is great, but
How is that going to fix the dumpster fire that is the BPS?! 35k per kid and this is the best we can do?!
Seems like a bunch of smoke and mirrors to me
It's a drag to say it but...
The Boston Public School system, even after almost 50 years of Federal Court-mandated, large-scale cross-city school busing, did damned little, if anything, to improve Boston's public school system.
Sure, it came about for a reason: An extremely recalcitrant, racist, and politics-patronage-ridden and opportunistic school committee that exploited Boston's white working-class ethnic people for their own ends, but Boston's public school system, unfortunately, is little or no better as a result.
Yet, at the same time, the Federal Court-mandated school busing program made many more people aware of the fact that there were problems with the Boston School system to begin with: Racial tensions were already quite high, as was the student school drop-out rate. It was an educationally-inferior school system to begin with, flight from the city and its public schools was already occurring, and many of the white schools and black schools alike in the Boston school system were broken down and poorly maintained, as well.
Also, the fact that there is a much more racially and ethnically integrated and less mean-spirited Boston School Committee and City Council. The fact that both the Boston School Committee and the Boston City Council were both expanded so that each district now has their own representatives in both the Boston City Council and the Boston School Committee is also a good thing.
Also, the Federal Court-mandated school busing helped broaden the scope of debate among people, and even helped make it possible to eventually get a woman of color elected Mayor of Boston.
I do also think, however, that the banks and Real Estate Agents here in the Boston area that were affiliated with the B-BURG (i. e. Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group) also ran an extremely racist campaign: limiting access of first-time low-income non-white homebuyers to housing in Boston's Jewish neighborhoods. There were threats, break-ins, fire-bombings, and phone calls warning Jewish residents to "sell and get out now before their property values declined". Most of the Jewish residents did move out, and as a result of the blockbusting, the ghetto was expanded, extended and re-enforced.
Having said all of the above, had B-BURG operated differently and allowed non-white homebuyers access to housing throughout the city, this would not have happened, and the need for the Federal District Court to intervene would've been eliminated or at least minimized, and there would've been a better chance of neutralizing Louise Day Hicks and derailing her crusade before it had the chance to really get off of the ground. Both neighborhoods and schools would;'ve been much more integrarted racially, socioeconomically, and ethnically, as well.