Freedom Zone in Boston
Ok, Ok, OK, This is funny.
Boston is FAMOUS for being the 'birthplace of the revolution' and EVERY kid should know about the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a bunch of revolutionaries who decided to throw Tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the high taxes of England. Here in Boston, this protest is remembered with PRIDE, as well as Honor...
So this year we're having the Democratic Convention here in Boston and the police and secret service have been nice enough to set up a 'Free Speech Zone' NEAR the convention... Yes, yes, the Zone isn't within eye sight of the doors of the Fleet Center. And there's a chain link fence all around the perimeter of the 'Free Speech Zone', but that's to PROTECT the protestors. Oh and they're only allowed to HOLD signs in their hands, not put them on a stick to make them more visible... but we don't want them to have sticks because that would make them LESS safe.
And there's Razor wire on the top of the fence- heck if I know how that protects the protestors...
Now the ACLU did bring a court case, but the judge said that while the conditions were inhumane and icky looking- they weren't TECHNICALLY illegal, and you know that's what counts- legality these days.
Now call me a conspiracy nut- but if ALL the precautions they are taking in Boston are truly needed here in Boston( the shutting down of a Major train station, 'random' bag checks on the subway, penned in protesters....etc) then why isn't the secret service taking the SAME EXACT STEPS to protect the president next month? ( as Madison Square Garden is right above Penn Station the mother of all Amtrak stations). Do they really feel they need to make KERRY safer- or is the secret service trying to piss me off in the HOPES that I'll vote for W. this fall.
I'm angry about the bag checks, and the free speech zone and lots of other things about the democratic convention... but the only way I'll vote for someone other than Kerry is if the democratic party gets it's act together and runs Kitten and Ice Cream in Nov.
Boston is FAMOUS for being the 'birthplace of the revolution' and EVERY kid should know about the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a bunch of revolutionaries who decided to throw Tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the high taxes of England. Here in Boston, this protest is remembered with PRIDE, as well as Honor...
So this year we're having the Democratic Convention here in Boston and the police and secret service have been nice enough to set up a 'Free Speech Zone' NEAR the convention... Yes, yes, the Zone isn't within eye sight of the doors of the Fleet Center. And there's a chain link fence all around the perimeter of the 'Free Speech Zone', but that's to PROTECT the protestors. Oh and they're only allowed to HOLD signs in their hands, not put them on a stick to make them more visible... but we don't want them to have sticks because that would make them LESS safe.
And there's Razor wire on the top of the fence- heck if I know how that protects the protestors...
Now the ACLU did bring a court case, but the judge said that while the conditions were inhumane and icky looking- they weren't TECHNICALLY illegal, and you know that's what counts- legality these days.
Now call me a conspiracy nut- but if ALL the precautions they are taking in Boston are truly needed here in Boston( the shutting down of a Major train station, 'random' bag checks on the subway, penned in protesters....etc) then why isn't the secret service taking the SAME EXACT STEPS to protect the president next month? ( as Madison Square Garden is right above Penn Station the mother of all Amtrak stations). Do they really feel they need to make KERRY safer- or is the secret service trying to piss me off in the HOPES that I'll vote for W. this fall.
I'm angry about the bag checks, and the free speech zone and lots of other things about the democratic convention... but the only way I'll vote for someone other than Kerry is if the democratic party gets it's act together and runs Kitten and Ice Cream in Nov.
2 Comments:
At 7/26/2004 02:07:00 PM,
Unknown said…
Kitten and Ice Cream?
At 7/26/2004 09:38:00 PM,
Drew said…
After John Kerry picked John Edwards as a running mate, the Daily Show did a skit about how this would affect the Republicans and that Cheney would have to mellow his imagine to counter this. The Daily Show then morphed Cheney to wearing a tie dyed shirt. Mentioning that the Democrats would have to counter, they changed the picture of John Edwards, to a bare chested pirate Edwards. Then the announcer pointed out that the Republicans would have to counter and showed the Republican ticket of McCain and Giuliani. Finally they replaced Kerry and Edwards with ( drum roll please) Kitten and Ice Cream( ice cream was a chocolate self serve cone, fyi) and I FEEL in my soul that they were right and kitten and ice cream are the perfect Democrat candidates...
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