The Occupy Movement

There are several cities that currently have protesters occupying them. Among those cities is Boston. I have a few different feelings about Occupy Boston.

First, I think that the general idea of the Occupy movement is sound. We, the taxpayers of the United States, game huge sums of money to the Banks and Wall Street. Part of the deal was that if we helped bail them out, the banks would return the favor and help bail us out by renegotiating the bad loans people had gotten themselves into. That's not happening.

Second, every citizen has the right of Freedom of Speech, and the right to Peacefully Assemble. The Occupiers are exercising those rights.

Now I have some problems with the Occupy movement. For example, I would guess a good 95% of the people down at the protests don't have a clue what they are protesting. These are the people who end up on the news or in the paper. Never are the people who have a clue interviewed.

The other big issue I have is, that while they have the right to Peacefully Assemble, that does not give them the right to camp out in the park. If they want to be there and protest that's one thing. I don't think they should be camping out. Camping is a past time, not a protest.

The cities across the country with Occupiers in them are currently trying to figure out what to do with them. I don't really know what to do, but I can say that the cities need to be careful and not infringe on the rights of guaranteed by the Constitution.