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Occupy Lobby: Scott Brown vs. anti-Israel protesters
By adamg on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:54pm
A small group of Occupy Boston protesters marched from Dewey Square to Park Plaza Friday evening and held a brief sit-in in the lobby of the office building that houses the Israeli consulate.
The protesters, who chanted against "Israeli apartheid," did not actually get up to the consulate and were ushered out by police after about 15 minutes.
Sen. Brown, however, today denounced this "invasion of the Israeli consulate in Boston:"
It was shocking to hear the protestors chanting anti-Israel slogans in support of the terrorist-backed intifada uprising, which has created so much misery and death in Israel. There should be no mistaking which side America is on in the fight against terror, and I want to make it clear that I stand with Israel.
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I do believe Sen Brown has the vapors
but more than the phoney and breathless 'It was shocking to hear' was his characterization of the protest as an 'invasion'.
Invasion is what the US did in Iraq based on justifications premised on fraudulent pretexts. Hundreds of thousands of people died.
This so-called invasion is not really comparable. In fact, it's not really accurate. They never advanced passed the lobby. They were unarmed. No one died.
Beside mischaracterizing this protest against illegal Israeli interdiction in International waters of a peaceful flotilla bringing food and other non-dangerous items to Gaza, the Senator put this bullshit on his official US Senate page. There are no standards. It's all electoral politics and Sen Brown is sinking to great depths.
This is the kind of material you can read EVERYDAY on biggovernment.com. Hey does anyone know if Scott Brown hired Andrew Breitbart as his communications guy?
Maybe you didn't get the
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but that peaceful flotilla was carrying nothing. Not one moldy apple for Gaza was on board. I've been helping at Occupy Boston when I could get the chance, but this sit in just shows that there's a contingent of twits there as twitty as Scott Brown himself.
Excuse me, but I do believe
Excuse me, but I do believe it is the People's Consulate.
Protests "r" Us
Occupy Boston should be called Occupy Catchall or Protests "r" Us. They will simply march anywhere and protest anything, despite it having nothing to do with the original goals of Occupy Boston, which of themselves are still unclear. It becomes harder and harder to take these people seriously, and they had very little credibility in the first place.
Oh boy lets muddle the message
Great, a distraction. So Scott Brown can continue to protect his friends on Wall Street from accountability for defrauding the public over the past dozen years. While pretending to be a "friend" to Israel. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
I was at Occupy Boston for
I was at Occupy Boston for awhile on Friday and I didn't see anything about Israel. I saw some signs for 9/11 truth and some guys with an "End the Fed" sign and a flag that looked like it drew inspiration from Hezbollah's, though. Also, I haven't found anything about Israel on Occupy Boston's website - its not included on their survey of different issues for instance.
Occupy Boston is a weird movement - there are some serious activists but there are also a lot of homeless people and a lot of fellow travelers who are marching under the "we are the 99%" banner, but really seem to have their own agendas.
Brown's comments are exploitative, because Israel doesn't really seem to be high on the agenda of the Occupy Boston guys, but at the same time Occupy Boston is so anarchic that they create these opportunities for distractions and the exploitation of wedge issues.
Back when the Communist Party was run by Moscow, they never would have allowed this stuff. They would have kicked out the homeless guys, the drug dealers, the 9/11 truthers, the Ron Paulians and the guys with the keffiyahs on day one.
Ah for the good old days of
Ah for the good old days of the Commintern, when Communist policy worldwide was geared to advance the state interests of Russia.
Brown is either an idiot or a jerk
if he's not an idiot, then he thinks his constituents are. It's possible to support Israel and also criticize some Israeli actions. And it's also possible, indeed likely, that 5 people from Dewey Square do not represent the entirety of the occupy movement.
Why the Israeli Consulate
Huh? What does the Israeli Consulate have to do with the price of beer? Walk across the street to One Financial and drop in one of the dozens of hedge funds there. Or go another block or two west and rattle the corpo-thiefs in the State Street Bank building--who just offshored thousands of IT jobs to India.
But the Israeli consulate? I couldn't have found it with a map.
These are some very confused children down there in Dewey Square.
See that video up there? In
See that video up there? In that video, for your viewing enjoyment, is the exact moment that Occupy lost its momentum and started sliding down the hill towards irrelevance and it's a real shame. And I hope I am wrong. But I am not.
Bullmuffins!
This is a careful overexposure of a small splinter of nuts claiming to be part of Occupy Boston - just like they wrecked the Green Party for anyone normal or sane.
And it is ONLY Occupy Boston sorta related - you do know that Occupy is going on and is MUCH LARGER in NYC, Chicago, Oakland ... it is happening all around the frigging country. Oh, but Boston is your world, therefore ...
These are the same trustfund lunatics out of Central Square Cambridge who have been pulling this shit for years.
The real shame is how, strangely, this gets so much airplay and attention and the full Occupy Boston marches - like the one outside my office window the other day in front of the BoA - magically go unnoticed!
Ever consider how that happens? Huh?
That "selective attention", and how just about every city with a Faux News Yellow Mouthpiece has run "stories" on "sanitation problems" that don't exist in the camps and "bankrupting cities" with suspect data and no actual investigative journalism. Funny that, eh?
This gets more airplay? Not a
This gets more airplay? Not a single boston media outlet picked this up other then Universal Hub.
I agree, Swirly. But why do
I see your point, Swirly. But why do you have to be such a nasty little thing? If it's happening here, it's happening everywhere.
Ehh..hopefully this won't last much longer
You know, the joke that is Scott Brown? Take a stroll over to Brown's website and you'll find the majority of his sponsored legislation appears to go nowhere, except for that resolution praising the Bruins for winning the Stanley Cup, that passed no problem.
What a maroon...
Not passing any legislation could be a problem for Scott Brown
Not getting any legislation passed could be a problem for Scott Brown. It will be even worse in 20 years, if he still hasn't passed anything significant then decides to run for President. Just ask John Kerry.
No argument there...
Kerry's a walking, screaming billboard for term limits. The guy makes Martha Coakley seem warm and fuzzy by comparison. A true waste of a Senate seat.
that's totally not fair
Scott Brown also sponsored a bill to congratulate MIT on an big anniversary. So he's had a hand initiating two successful bills in the US Senate; one to congratulate the Bruins and on their Stanley Cup victory and one to congratulate MIT on an anniversary. He's 2 for 2. The guy is batting 100%.
Admittedly, he failed to stop the Affordable Care Act, which was the main reason he gave us to elect him.
Next, he watered down Wall St reform so we can all look forward to another financial crisis.
Then, he voted against eliminating special tax deals for oil companies, which by the way are the most profitable businesses in the history of the world. But still, Scott Brown voted 'No' to remove their special tax treatment - in which tax payers pay THEM to be in business. (And don't quite understand the value in that.)
Scott Brown has what everyone in America values, a sense of fairness in sharing the nation's tax burden. /s
I support Occupy Boston
But this was ridiculous. As bad as Israel's policies can be, having people support an intifada (which would end up killing thousands of innocent Israelis AND Palestinians) I have also seen a nutter with signs supporting Omar al-Bashir (President of Sudan, genocidal maniac) and Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria) simply because, well the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Now that wasn't everyone, not even by a long-shot, it was 2 crazy guys, one with the sign, and one with a Palestinian flag. As a Jew, I have never experienced antisemitism at OccupyBoston or OccupyWallStreet, and I don't consider criticism of Israel antisemitism, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of these guys have some rather radical ideas regarding Israelis and what should happen to them (i.e. push them into the sea etc.) Also, the third guy at the top from the right, who has his mouth slightly open in the video still, is a self important douchebag.
Before Qaddafi got his just deserts ...
I saw some nut on the Atlantic Avenue sidewalk with a picket sign supporting him. Fortunately these folks are in no way representative of the Occupiers as a whole.
astroturf
There have been news reports that the Syrian and Libyan embassies have been putting pressure on their citizens in the US to demonstrate in support of the regimes. For instance, telling students that if they don't show up and protest for Qadaffi, the government will stop paying for their education and send them packing back to Libya.
There have been some Americans who have been supporting Qadaffi (Cynthia McKinney for instance) and that's just nuts.
As bad as the Israeli Government's policies are,
The whole "Occupation" movement here in Boston and the United States generally has nothing what so ever to do with Israel. As someone who's Jewish, I, too, condemn the Israeli government's policies in West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. However, there's a time and place for everything, and this, imho, as much as Scott Brown isn't acting very smart, totally digresses from the goal of the "Occupy" movement here in the United States, which is to pressure the politicians in power, both in Washington and everywhere else here in the USA to get busy fixing our own backyard, quit sending our soldiers into harm's way abroad wrongheadedly and unnecessarily, and to take care of our own crumbling infrastructure, healthcare system, education, and our system overall.
What policy would you like the USA take to address this?
I, too, condemn the Israeli government's policies in West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem [ and her apartheid policies in Israel proper.]
Anarchy
It is unfortunate that the Occupy Boston movement with all of its merits is being hijacked by those who want to make political statements.
Disrupting my civil rights by blocking my passage on the street or by interfering with my ability to move around Boston is a violation of my rights under the constitution of the United States.
Marching and occupying the Consulate of a sovereign foreign nation is an insult to the American People and to the President of the United States whose job it is to protect foreign guests in our country.
If you don't like the policy of the United States - you have a vote - use it and elect people who agree with you. If you lose in the election then feel free to leave - this is a Democracy and the people rule - not those who disrupt others rights but those who are decent, caring , law abiding and know that the American way is to work to achieve a goal - not make noise and expect a handout!
Just a splinter?
For all those that claim that these people aren't part of the main Occupy Boston movement: How come the Occupy Boston website has a photo album dedicated to their march: http://occupybostonglobe.com/2011/11/05/photos-mar...