Police arrested around 100 protesters early Tuesday in a downtown Boston park. The protesters were part of Occupy Boston, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police, some dressed in riot gear, moved on the protesters in Rose Kennedy Greenway, tearing down tents and arresting scores of people. The protesters had been warned to leave the site, near their official encampment at Dewey Square. Occupy Boston claimed in a press release that the police "made no distinction between protesters, medics, or legal observers."
Anasstassia Baichorova is a protester with the Occupy Boston movement. She was at the protest last night until 4 AM, and her partner was among those arrested. Matthew Filipowicz, host of the podcast, The Matthew Filipowicz Show, also speaks to what he witnessed.
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The “Occupy Boston” and “Occupy Wall St.” protests are legitimate and necessary. The US Government is no longer a government “by the people and for the people,” but rather a government by corporate capital and for corporate capital. Washington desperately needs reform. Politics nowadays have degenerated into corporate cronyism, with so-called “lobbying” a mere euphemism for Legalized Bribery, serving mainly to subvert democracy. The continued injustice and usurpation of the people’s voice justifies a massive revolt over & above any localized protests.
So the protesters believe they should be above the law as they deliberately seek out confrontation because they are the unelected, self appointed leaders of everybody else called the 99 percent?
Why is the Democratic Party and their media allies excitedly promoting this kind of reckless mass delusion and criminal disruption after viciously defaming and deriding the law abiding Tea Party movement that brought about real political and economic change lawfully without mass arrests?
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