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Graffiti stencil "Occupy Boston" in the area between Fenway and BU; on the sidewalk and thrown on USPS mail boxes, storage boxes, and a few MBTA bus ad thingys.
Looks like some retarded hipster thoguht he finally had a idea worth while; too bad he's not helping and deserves to be smashed in the face.
Alternatively, it could be a false flag operation
It could just as easily have been done deliberately to discredit Occupy Boston (not that they aren't entirely capable of discrediting themselves.)
Possibly
But the hipster hood rats of Allston have no problem tagging and throwing up graffiti anyways. Not sure why'd they stop otherwise. They think defacing public and private property under the dark of night is "art". Most people think they're just weird, selfish jerks.
They're not exactly the median, rational supporter of OWS either, so it's not surprising they'd do something so short sighted.
OWS can't be too pleased about it, either way.
OB - manage the PR flank better or wither away.
I will say it again:
The Occupiers are not covering their PR flanks particularly well, and will begin to lose the support of the larger public (or at least convert their benign indifference to hostility - remember, contrary to the implications, not 99% of the population is occupying) unless they do. It doesn't matter that no reasonable person could expect them to prevent this kind of nonsense and it will rightly or wrongly be attributed to them.
If the Occupiers are not able to effectively contradict media reports like this, they're doomed because once public opinion swings against them, it will give the Mayor the cover that he needs to do what they really wants - sweep them offa "his" front lawn.
Assuming they did it, that is
Right now, we don't have proof. For all we know, it could have been done to discredit Occupy Boston. I wish I could just be paranoid, but the other side's already pulled stuff.
My point was that popular perception is political reality.
I must not have articulated my point well. Let me try again.
What I was trying to say is that unless the Occupiers are able to get out in front of incidents like this and effectively convince people that it was not them, the 98% of the working population who spend their time occupying their homes, workplaces and means for getting to and from work are going to presume (whether they do so rightly or wrongly is irrelevant) that it was the Occupiers, and that will be the Occupiers undoing.
Faux News Propaganda Agrees with You
Or you agree with all that Faux you've been snorting.
NECN reporter on graffiti
An NECN reporter announced on twitter he was told by BPD that the graffiti was done by an Occupy Boston participant.
Then I read the article in the Globe in which the BPD made the claim that they did not know who did it and would examine security camera video as part of their investigation.
I pointed this out to the reporter at NECN and have not heard back from him.
Given the ratfucking, conservatives are engaged in in a PR war over the occupy movement, to me, it is equally likely that this was done by an outsider trying to damage the movement as an insider. Either way, it's certainly irresponsible to make assumptions in reporting it.
Two possible reasons for the discrepancy
A) The NECN reporter chose to publish leaked information that has not yet been confirmed, whereas the Globe chose to stick with the BPD's official comments, or
B) The updated information was not made available to the Globe before they printed their version of the story
I'm not on Twitter, so I haven't seen the NECN post. As such, I have a question: Did the NECN reporter actually attribute their story to a named person at BPD, or did they cowardly use the typical "who asked not to be named because they leaked insider information for us to make more profits from" excuse that has become all too common in the media these days.