On this Independence Day, a concerned citizen complains about conditions around one of the historic buildings that made the holiday possible:
Ugly Barricades at Faneuil hall - serving no purpose and taking away from view of historic building.
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Whine whine whine
By Scratchie
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 12:10pm
Why doesn't he just move them himself?
because he'll be arrested by
By FirmamentHub
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 12:14pm
because he'll be arrested by Boston's finest
Whoooooooooooshhhhhh!
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 12:50pm
*nm*
Mmmmm , not necessarily......
By kvn
Sat, 07/05/2014 - 11:33am
Mmmmm , not necessarily......
Expecting liberty at one of
By Sam Adams' faceplam
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 12:51pm
Expecting liberty at one of the birthplaces of liberty on the birthday of liberty? What nonsense is this?
No, I thought he was supposed
By chaosjake
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 1:25pm
No, I thought he was supposed to get to know his neighbors instead of using Citizens Connect like some sort of out of town yuppie.
EDIT: Dang it, I was trying to reply to Scratchie's first comment.
But, but
By anon
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 3:14pm
talking to strangers like neighbors is scary and requires social skills and empathy. What if I say something wrong or they aren't members of my socioeconomic class, then what? Citizen's Connect is more anonymous and passive aggressive, with the added bonus you can use it from a phone. Once all the old farts and yokels die off, we won't have to deal with this being sociable and friendly with neighbors BS anymore.
Whooosh.
By Scratchie
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 4:47pm
Whooosh.
n/m
By chaosjake
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 1:26pm
n/m
How else are we supposed to
By anon
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 2:25pm
How else are we supposed to preserve freedom of speech without buffers and barriers? This guy sounds like a nut.
Construction barrier, or bad brick walkway?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 2:57pm
This looks like its purpose is to either keep people out of a construction area, or off an uneven brick surface that needs repointing. Anyone know which?
I'm going to guess
By anon
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 4:29pm
It's some sort of anti-terror "barricade" to keep people a certain distance from the building.
Because as we learned last year, terrorists are easily deterred by metal police barricades and never, ever throw bombs.
C'mon, Boston is always about barriers
By anonism
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 4:07pm
.
USS Constitution/Charlestown Navy Yard
By DeerIslandAir
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 4:22pm
The Navy is famous for blocking the views of the Constitution with a large crane or huge pay loader. No one is using either one of them. I know I am a fool and did not know people travel from around the world to take a photo of the Constitution AND a large crane.
It is hard to figure the mentality of the Navy people there. They do their best to keep the movement of the Constitution into the harbor a big secret until that morning. I think most of them are morons. I have a brother in the Navy so I know about such matters.
They're space savers
By anon
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 4:50pm
Mess with them at your own peril, yuppie scum.
They appeared one winter to
By anon
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 6:08pm
They appeared one winter to prevent people from getting hit by snow and ice falling off the roof. It's like Christmas lights, if they're still up on July 4th just leave them up.
Menino vestige?
By Charles Bahne
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 6:39pm
Maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that these barriers were placed there a few years ago at the personal request of Mayor Menino, who was upset about street performers or something like that. Now that we have a new Mayor, maybe it's time to revisit that decision.
2008
By adamg
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 8:06pm
Hizzona was tired of the noise, noise, noise, noise.
More recently, though, they used the barriers when they were doing some renovation/archaeological work around the building.
Reminds me of the Silber legend
By Chris Rich
Sat, 07/05/2014 - 6:41am
..where he supposedly 'punished' a small library at BU by eliminating it because students were caught plooking in it.
John Adams
By bostnkid
Fri, 07/04/2014 - 8:24pm
Thomas Jefferson still survives.
I think all of these guesses
By Finn
Sun, 07/06/2014 - 6:43pm
I think all of these guesses are wrong. Having visited the area on multiple July Fourth's, I can say with a reasonable amount of certainty that these barriers are meant for crowd control when the Massachusetts Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and their marching band make their annual march from the Old State House to Faneuil Hall's Great Chamber after reciting the Declaration of Independence. I think these barriers are only meant for that one event - if they have been there a while it must be some other reason.
I thought that parade was cancelled this year
By Ron Newman
Mon, 07/07/2014 - 12:34am
because of expected rain? As it turns out, the rain didn't come until after 1 pm, but the city didn't know that when they announced cancellation of the parade and outdoor Declaration reading.
So....
By bosguy22
Mon, 07/07/2014 - 9:55am
You say everyone guessing is wrong because the barriers are there for only one reason.....but then you say if they've been there for a while, it must be for some other reason. Maybe it's for one of the reasons people suggested!
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