Occupy, mayor’s good will show signs of fraying

A war of words erupted yesterday between defiant occupiers on Dewey Square and an annoyed Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who said the tent dwellers are imposing themselves on mayors when their political beef is with Congress. Funny, I thought they were imposing themselves on the proprietors of the Greenway, the people of Boston and the commuters using South Station.

Mayor Menino orders Occupy Boston out by midnight

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Frances A. McIntyre yesterday lifted a temporary restraining order that has blocked city officials from forcibly dismantling the Dewey Square encampment. That order was “vacated” as of 3 p.m. yesterday.

“While Occupy Boston protesters may be exercising their expressive rights during their protest, they have no privilege under the First Amendment to seize and hold the land on which they sit,” the judge wrote in her 25-page decision.

Mayor Menino; two months ago you couldn’t see how this was going to develop? Everyone else in the city could. Why did you wait until the buckets of human waste showed up? Why have you ignored the petty theft, the sexual assaults, the harassment of commuters? Now that the Judges order is vacated with the admission that this is nothing more than trespass, why are these trespassers being allowed to slink away without being arrested?

Judge McIntyre. More than three weeks ago you had never heard of the Fifth Amendment rights of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and so thwarted the Boston Police of the ability to use the due process of the law to protect the City, it’s citizens, and visitors.

What a long, sad, descent it has been.

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Woman assaulted by reported Occupy protester in Boston’s North End

Updated: Tuesday, 06 Dec 2011

Nuzzo didn’t find that out until hours later when police told her.

She also later heard from a witness, who said before the attack, he saw the man following her through the streets, and yelling at her.

“Some of the words he was yelling were: ‘successful, attractive.’ I felt at that moment, was I targeted?” said Nuzzo.

This is not the first time Occupy Boston has faced similar allegations.

Back in October, a woman employed by the Coast Guard claimed she was spit upon and harassed as she walked through Dewey Square in uniform.

Travesty is coming to a end, but no justice in that end.