I find it interesting that City officials are quick to-the-draw in evicting college kids playing games from public lands because they don't have the "proper" permits. Yet these same enforcers let the occupy hoodlums remain for months on public land without "proper" permits. City officials... Cowards or hypocrites. Both.

It seems that Barney Fife is alive and well, working for the City of Boston.

Emerson students, the solution is obvious. Just pitch tents on the common. Just don't leave. When the cameras arrive, whine about your student loans and inform the criminals whom you asked to loan you money that you won't pay it back. Expound on the evils of Reagonomics. Blame Bush for the lack of quidditch funding. Call your group of tents Romneyville. Explain that you can't afford the free permit. And play all the quidditch you want. Don't worry about any damage to the common, it's your park. Attack any uniformed members of our armed forces who happen by on the sidewalk. You'll soon have one major political party and one senatorial candidate praising and defending you, and vying for your affection.

Frustratingly, this article did not answer the obvious question: Why don't these students simply unravel whatever "misunderstanding" there is or was with park officials and get a permit issued?  Why can't this be solved by 10 am Monday?  I guess the Globe laid off all the editors that should have told the reporter to get more facts before writing an article that raises more questions than it answers.

It seems crazy to have to ask this in the comments section but does anyone know what the problem is?