[Ob-media-social] Fwd: MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING THEIR FIRE AT THE WRONG PLACE/suggested response FIRST DRAFT

Martin m2 at occupyboston.org
Tue Dec 6 15:45:33 EST 2011


Team,

why don't we send Menino asking for his help in taking on the right 
targets. how can he work with the citizens, whom he has a duty to serve, 
to take on the abuses of power from congress, the fed and the big 
banks?  or at least join us for a town hall, where ALL of Boston is 
invited, to discuss these issues.

most likely he will ignore it or decline/refuse. best case scenario he 
agrees and a city conversation is started. let's do this not as a 
challenge but as an invitation given his own words that we should aim at 
the right target.

cheers

martin


On 12/6/11 11:20 AM, Deborah Sirotkin Butler wrote:
> *As a practical matter, while it may well "feel" like Occupy is 
> "aiming" at mayors, it is not the reality.  It is true that Occupy is 
> like a "thorn" in their side due to the very visibility that makes 
> this movement /different./*
> **
> */As the GAO audit of the Fed, reported  that was just issued makes 
> clear, mayors and everyone else was robbed of $16 trillion dollars (I 
> have attached the report) for those interested)./*
> */So I strongly, strongly suggest a response be done, ASAP and provide 
> a first draft & that this be done as an "open letter" that also is on 
> the website, the facebook page, and possibly released with a brief PR. /*
> *//*
> */This should be done and go out TODAY as this SHNS story went to ALL 
> newspapers across the state, all legislators, etc./*
> *//*
> */Deb Sirotkin Butler/*
> *//*
> *Open Letter to The Honorable Thomas M. Menino*
> *(address)*
> **
> *Dear Mayor Minino:*
> **
> *Occupy Boston appreciates the location, services and hospitality 
> received to date at Dewey Square.  The Dewey Square location in the 
> financial district across from the Boston Federal Reserve is critical 
> to our core message, which is the pillaging of the United States and 
> its citizens by the banking industry, with the collusion of the 
> Federal Reserve Bank.  In fact, just recently in the first-ever audit 
> of the Federal Reserve System, a $16 trillion transfer without over 
> sight, no strings attached was uncovered from the Federal Reserve Bank 
> to private banks, most of them overseas.*
> **
> *While it may feel as if as a mayor you are targeted, in fact, our 
> survival as a country is at stake, our target is the preservation of 
> American Democracy, and we ask for your cooperation in making Occupy 
> Boston all it can be as part of this critical effort.  That includes 
> winterization, sanitation, and a good working relationship to those 
> ends so that Occupy Boston can continue to fight for the liberty and 
> financial security of not just Boston, not just Massachusetts, but the 
> United States of America while keeping the light and media and 
> citizenry focused on the depredations by the banking industry with the 
> collusion of Congress.*
> **
> *Respectfully:*
> **
> *[signature bloc]*
> **
> *I am due in a hearing in Lowell at noon, so have to zoom off, so I 
> apologize is this is rought, but I HAD to take time to give you all 
> this heads up - PLEASE grab the ball and run with it!!!*
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *State House News Service* <news at statehousenews.com 
> <mailto:news at statehousenews.com>>
> Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM
> Subject: MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING THEIR FIRE AT THE WRONG PLACE’
> To: NEWS at statehousenews.com <mailto:NEWS at statehousenews.com>
>
>
>
>
> MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING THEIR FIRE AT THE WRONG PLACE’
>
> By Kyle Cheney
> STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
>
> STATE HOUSE, BSOTON, DEC. 6, 2011…..Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on 
> Tuesday chastised backers of the Occupy Wall Street movement for 
> training their anger at municipal leaders rather than Congress, and 
> the accused the group of a scattershot message that would benefit from 
> taking on a single issue.
>
> “Mayors can’t do much about what they’re talking about. It’s the 
> Congress and the Senate but nobody’s talking to them at all. They come 
> at mayors,” Menino told reporters after speaking at a Greater Boston 
> Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Fairmont Copley Hotel. “Mayors 
> can’t make decisions on banks’ regulations. Mayors can’t make 
> decisions on scholarships. Mayors can’t make decisions on housing. 
> It’s all down in Washington. They’re aiming their fire at the wrong place.
>
> Menino’s remarks came as he awaits a judge’s decision that will 
> clarify whether he has the power to evict Occupy Boston protesters 
> from their long-held encampment in Dewey Square, at the heart of 
> Boston’s financial district.
>
> Menino said he hasn’t assumed the outcome of the Suffolk Superior 
> Court Judge Frances McIntyre’s decision yet, but he questioned the 
> Occupy movement’s tactics.
>
> “If they had one issue, I believe they could be a very powerful 
> operation. They don’t have one issue, they have several issues,” he 
> said. “Those several issues are issues that middle America cares 
> about. Until you focus on one … you’re not going to have many wins.”
>
> Critics of the Occupy movement – which has branded itself as a voice 
> to protest economic inequality and a political and financial system 
> rigged to benefit the wealthiest, best-connected Americans – argue 
> that protesters haven’t offered a clear solution. Menino’s criticism 
> echoes similar remarks offered by former Republican presidential 
> primary contender Herman Cain, who suggested that protesters aim their 
> anger at government, rather than at the financial industry.
>
> Menino’s comments also come as mayors in other cities are grappling 
> with how to handle Occupy protests of their own. The protesters have 
> primarily set up camp in major downtown areas, and critics argue they 
> present a public health and public safety hazard. Menino, whose police 
> commissioner Ed Davis attended the breakfast, said he shared those 
> concerns.
>
> Judge McIntyre said she would rule on Menino’s authority to remove 
> protesters. She has indicated her ruling would come by the end of next 
> week.
>
> -END-
> 12/6/2011
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