The mayor gets a wake-up call

I don't approve of protesting at a person's place of residence. Be it the governor or mayor or really anyone else, I feel like their home is off limits to active protesting. They have a JOB to be a public servant, but somewhere there has to be a line where they can feel safe and be "off the clock."

Strange of them to cast Walsh as unresponsive and unsympathetic when he's actually been leaning towards some of what they want.
Strange of them to say he doesn't listen and connect when he does neighborhood walks and listening sessions when there isn't a pandemic.

The mayor, like many other officials and public servants, is to some degree "always on" - but 6 AM on a Sunday (especially when he has neighbors) is somewhere beyond reasonable speech and public protest.

There is a line of appropriate protest. Going onto his property, knocking on his door crosses that line. I can fully support a protest in the morning. Inconvenient, a pain to neighbors...enjoy having a major politician as a neighbor.

But walking onto his property, knocking on the door is crossing a line that separates reasonable protest from mob behavior.

If anyone actually knocked on his door that person deserves to be arrested for trespassing.

Mob mentality will afflict anyone regardless of political and philosophical beliefs. We are fortunate to live in a nation where protests can happen on the sidewalk (with the exception of Herr Twitler who believes laws do not apply to him). But for everyone else who is civilized there are some basic and important boundaries to be respected.

In the 1800's. This is a portrait of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial in Boston under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 incited riots and protests by white and black abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. The portrait is surrounded by scenes from his life, including his sale on the auction block, escape from Richmond, Virginia, capture and imprisonment in Boston, and his return to a vessel to transport him to the South. Within a year after his capture, abolitionists were able to raise enough money to purchase Burns's freedom.

Today, people want change in how Boston Police are policing Boston, and they're saying that we spend too much on police. Two things the mayor has more control over than any other elected official.

And you were all so busy arguing the morality of a 6 AM Sunday home visit, you didn't bother to point out that they were protesting Marty Walsh.

You know, the establishment Democrat stooge who took a break from his mayoral duties in 2016 to go pal around with Hillary Clinton at that dumbass convention. THAT'S the guy whom you believe is going to cut the police budget out of kindness and/or intelligence?

Menino without the need for subtitles. It votes against establishment career Democrat politicians or it gets the hose again.

Hell, I'd be happy if it voted at all at this point. Someone above already pointed out the embarrassing turnout from last time. I look at that (expletive) in Kentucky where the county of 610,000 is going to have one poll open tomorrow, and I think about how Allston-Brighton has an eighth of that with a half dozen polls, and I'm sickened with how we take that for granted.

Did they change it to "For The People?"