Ambulances and protests

"These actions were a declaration of war on people like myself; tubby white person who doesn't live in the urban core but commutes into it for work."

The ironic thing (and oh how hipsters love irony), is that most, if not all, of the protesters are also "tubby white people", trust fund kids going to the Museum of Fine Arts school, etc, and I seriously doubt many of them are native Bostonians. They were well insulated against the cold with their expensive clothing. Perhaps, while they were at it, they should have showed solidarity with the homeless by dressing in the inadequate clothing that the homeless often have and then exposing themselves to the weather. The protesters need to raise their consciousness and see the bigger picture. Dreadlocks and beards do not a hipster make.

When did the Cold War with the god hating Roosians resume?

Blocking an interstate highway, where there's a speed limit of 55 miles per hour and/or more is endangering people's lives, no matter how anybody looks at it.

Why don't the protestors go out to the bedroom communities outside the state and interstate highways to protest, then?

agree with you.

People who've engaged in Civil Disobedience, including MLK Junior, due to a genuine belief in the cause(s) that they espouse, have realized that there are often consequences (i. e. jail, fines, etc., ) and have accepted the consequences of their lawbreaking willingly.

These particular protestors, especially those of yesterday who insisted on blocking I-93, are a totally different breed, and not in a positive way, either. They seem to not realize, or don't want to realize these consequences, and whine and cry when they get arrested. Well, I've got no sympathy for the protestors who blocked I-93, because, imho, they don't deserve it. If they get arrest records that follow them for the rest of their lives, and either lose their scholarships, etc., as a result, too bad for them.

Because last I was aware, the death penalty could only be issued by a jury of one's peers after a trial, not by a police officer in the heat of the moment.

I was also unaware that the consequences for petty theft and similar crimes was now immediate death.

Although I do not agree with the protesters, I equally dislike this default mechanism of using outdated 1960s terms like "hippies" and "smelly protesters" every time something like this happens? Howie Carr used the term "hippies" for the protesters three or four times in his column today. Honestly, aren't the old people he is intentionally trying to get a visceral, lowest common denominator reaction from by pejoratively using this term long dead? They were old THEN, let alone now. The same thing happened during the Occupy fiasco. The occupiers were referred to as "hippies", as if they suddenly emerged intact in a time machine from 1969. The protesters yesterday are no more "hippies" than Howie Carr is, and, diapers notwithstanding, we have no reason to assume they are "smelly", especially given their privileged status in life.