'Leave now or we will shoot you!'

I walk over the dam every day that I take commuter rail. The building is marked - it is the water patrol HQ.

Of course it is NOT marked "no photography". I took some pictures of the area the other day. I used a cel phone camera. Much different, I'm sure of that! Not.

Thing is, there wouldn't be too much that would really happen if the Charles river dam was destroyed. It is full open a whole lot of the time anyway. Sure, the river would become tidal in the lower basin, but there wouldn't be too much that would happen in terms of lives lost.

They should pay so much attention to the area where the mooninites were stowed at Sullivan Square, but they haven't even bothered with security cameras or barbed wire in that space, which is fully accessible to anybody who can climb a little.

While State Cops, Town Cops and MBTA ticket takers hassle citizens about photo-taking, there is an unprecedented expansion of video cameras in public places that invade our collective privacy, not to mention massive wiretapping of US citizens phone calls, email and web traffic. Some Federal government official asserted that your personal information must become government property in order to secure your safety. Um, no thanks.

who would gladly concede his "god-given rights" enumerated in the Constitution in return for a false-security than insist on a real security and his "god-given rights."

Assault, by the way, is not a god-given right.

You are so wrong.

We do live in a time where people slam airplanes into buildings, and a time where plots to blow up bridges and memorials (boston specifically) exist.

No, we live in a time where people in power are have for more than a half decade been using a single event to justify though scare tactics, massive authoritarianism with a healthy dose of nationalism.

If you don't like it, move to Mexico where giving the police $5 will get you out of a murder rap.

If you don't like the fact that you live in a country where people are permitted to take a picture of anything they fucking well please if they're in a public spave and you're so happy to cower like a frightened sheep and let officials pull away your inalienable rights because they claim it'll make you safer, get the fuck out of America. This is not supposed to be a Fascist country, and the police do not have unlimited powers restrained by law- it's the opposite. They have only the power granted to them.

The price of universal freedom is that someone will use that same freedom to hurt you. If you cannot deal with that, move to any of dozens of countries where the government does whatever it pleases in the name of "protecting" the people- when really, it's just protecting itself.

We live in a time six and a half years after a few idiots slammed airplanes into buildings. There is no indication that such an aberrant event will ever happen again. It's long past time that this country fully returned to normalcy.

I'm sure you would like to lick Putin's boots and be a good little mob/police state fascist.

Get the hell out of my USA, please. You are soooo not original intent, and would have been righteously tarred and feathered for your tory complicity.

And if you are so brave that you would punch someone, why are you so bravely anonymous, huh?

...trying such a thing would probably elicit a serious government response (ie, riot police, organizers arrested beforehand, etc.) Numbers make cops freak out a lot more :(

What we need are people to stand up for their rights individually. If it means getting arrested, so be it- the only way they'll stop pulling this shit is if they keep getting bitch-slapped by the courts for civil rights and color of law violations, etc.

perhaps if for each one someone mentioned 'get the fuck out of America' then there might be a response. But then again I had expected a response along the lines of nationalism pros and cons.

I'm not aware of the local police (state or otherwise) shooting someone "almost everyday". If they did, you bet we'd be talking about it here.

And yes, taking photographs is an essential liberty. There is no good reason to prohibit it anywhere, except where it gets in people's way (e.g. using flash and tripods in T stations).

Using the Spatch Scale and the combined underbridge index, I say this latest OMO rates a paltry 7.25.

I'm sure those invaders would love to hear one of your opinons of one man. The resulting summary execution would probably delay them long enough for me to load my .22 and climb onto the roof.

Chickenhawks like to redefine "freedom" and attack libruls.

Charlie Wilson (D-TX) was a liberal. He secured the funding for the Afgan victory over the Soviet Union. Charlie Wilson did more to bring down the Soviet Union than Reagan ever did. Wilson spent less than 10 billion. Reagan ran up the biggest Federal deficit ever, well until Bush.

The last time Dick Cheney went to a war zone it was to secretly get the Maliki to attack Basra and make the surge look successful. Maliki was getting his ass kicked, even with US air cover. The Iranians brokered a peace. We're playing checkers and their playing chess. Meanwhile Obama is watching us bleed red in Iraq and on the Federal balance sheet - that was his first objective. Dumbass Bush.

The only way these guys can run a guvmint is in the darkest corners of secret secrecy. If Americans knew what Bush and Cheney were doing, they'd recognize their rank incompetence and impeach the war criminals.