Occupy Boston showdown at high noon on Monday

I'm not a fan of this movement, it really has gone on long enough. And they really wonder why people have stopped paying attention and they're being forced out by cities across the nation. You can't just take over a park for months in end.

Someone made an excellent point somewhere else online. Why don't they just all go home. Rent a small office downtown as the organizing spot and have daily demonstrations. Then when they're done protesting, they can go home. Yes I know the idea is to "Occupy" but they are more or less pissing off the city, wasting tax payers money by fighting. They'd probably get more notice from the media by having daily protests at various vantage points around the city, rather than their tent city. AND the beef with the city would be moot since there'd be nothing permanent.

It just makes me wonder if these folks even *have* places to go, or its just become a refugee camp for the homeless, or drug addicted. With a few college students who are skipping class for a few days thrown in for good measure.

regardless. I think the Boston PD is kinda giving them the nudge that they aren't going to tolerate this crap anymore. And rightfully so. The court order says they can stay for now, but it doesn't say they can still break the law in other ways.

Clowns? Why, because we fail to see the point of squatting on public land without benefit of permit, with no coherent objective, with alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill, in feces encrusted tents? Um, ok.

I consider myself a moderate liberal.

I never said I disagreed with what they are trying to do but as I've clearly stated for weeks on end on this board about this matter...

I get their message. I agree corporate greed sucks. I also agree that the gov't is just as guilty as the rest.

HOWEVER..

Taking over a park for months on end just to 'prove a point' is silly now. Fine a few days. Great. But we're going on month three now, and they really are losing their steam. And now they're pissing off the city, and pissing off the tax payers because now its costing us money our cities and state just do not have.

Then folks get all mad when the media stops paying attention to them, except when things get nasty down there. Why? Because its old news. They're still there. They're still protesting. And nothing as changed.

It was news when it started because it was NEW (hence why news contains the word NEW). Maybe if they disassembled daily and re-organized everyday, they'd get noticed. Save your energy for larger marches when more people can attend. There's power in numbers. But having a daily marge with 20 people that go thru downtown crossing, really doesn't send a powerful message.

In the 1960s.. the decade of unrest. Marches were bigger. They didn't need to take over a park for weeks on end. They came one day. Marched for a day or two. Then left. And they didn't have social media to organize this crap, it was all done by word of mouth. If they, back then, can do it with far less than we have today, one would think that if they happened today, it would be bigger and larger than it was back then. And these marches had a larger impact.

These folks just reminds me of the anti-abortion guy that hangs out in front of the Planned Parenthood in Allston. He's there everyday holding his sign. He's been there everyday for as long as I can remember. Why doesn't he get noticed? Because we all know that he's there day in and day out. Eventually he just became apart of the woodwork there. This is what is happening in Dewey Square. They are just becoming apart of the pavement...