In a dim, stuffy room overlooking Copley Square, 15 Occupiers, mostly in their 50s or 60s, met last week for the group’s biweekly general assembly.
Sitting in a circle of folding chairs, they bandied plans for Sept. 30, to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square — the local answer to the call of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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This article fails to mention the answer to that burning question: Has any of them showered yet?
Why doesn't their patroness saint, Lizzy the Harvard bankruptcy professor Warren, throw a barbecue behind her Cambridge mansion and invite all these odd remnants of the movement that she claims to have mentored? Can you imagine the indignity to Lizzy's dignity as part of the millionaire class so favored by Scott Brown?
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Puh - leez: anybody paying attention recognized this to have been nothing more than an extended slumber party for ne'er do wells, idle blame-shifters and people who don't consider hygeine a priority. If Professpr Pocohantas wants to take credit for that, I wish her heep big luck with it.
Barack Obama's favorite financier, Ben Bernanke just unleashed QE3, yet ANOTHER round of money printing which will ONLY favor Wall Street. If you have a bank savings account, not only will you receive Zero interest, you will have to PAY your bank to keep your money there. -- Where is Elizabeth Warren's comment on that? Where's the Occupy Wall Street's comment on that? Where's the Boston Phoenix's comment? Where's the Boston Globe's comment?
I read all the negative comments which ignore the fact that these people are still American citizens whether they have taken showers or not. As for your wise-crack that they maybe smell for lack of showering, how do you know whether they showered or not? Did you conduct a smell test? The important issue here is whether as Americans we have the right to free assembly. Sure, if you get permission. I see. An what if the permit is denied? No bureaucrat issuing permits should have the power to deny Americans their constitutionally given right of free assembly. If the aassembly ends in violence or some kind of criminal offense, that's another story. Then the police have the right to step in but if it is peaceful, there is no need for police intervention as there should be no need for a permit. In Brookline where I live, the last time citizens here freely assembled without a permit was when Brookline Minutemen assembled on Walnut Hill before marching on to Lexington to fight the British.
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