Today as we scoured the internet for any coverage of the arrests that took place at the Boston Tea Party yesterday, we came across the following article from the Boston Globe, “Boston police to review action after criticisms of handling of the Tea Party counter-protest on Common“:

“The department will need an appropriate amount of time to properly determine the context of the photo and what took place before and after,” Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said in an e-mail this morning.

She said an “unruly and combative” group of protesters tried to disrupt a rally held by Tea Party activists, who had secured a permit to gather on the Common.

“The aggressive nature of these individuals required officers to call for numerous additional units to respond,” Driscoll said. “As we always do after a day of aggressive protests, the department will review all of the activity that took place during the course of the day including the photos that have surfaced from the event.”

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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of attending the Boston Tea Party on Boston Common organized by the Massachusetts Tea Party.  While the rally itself was relatively uninteresting, with smaller crowds than previous years and few captivating speakers, it was the counter-protesters that stole the show.

For the first half of the rally, the counter-protesters (which originally consisted of  just a few members of a “gay rights” group to protest one of the speakers) were content to stay on the periphery, peacefully holding signs and being rather respectful of the Tea Partiers.  We then noticed a man in a pink wig approach with a bandana over his face and we knew trouble was coming. Behind him rushed a large group of Occupy/anarchists/communists holding a large banner and signs using shameful verbiage that conveyed neither a clear message nor peaceful intentions. Some burst through the Tea Party group (shoving an innocent man out of their way) screaming unintelligible chants.

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Running for Congress in Massachusetts as a Republican is an uphill battle, to say the least.  The red tide that swept across this great nation came to a crashing halt on our shores as incumbent Democrats swept the 2010 elections.  I’m not writing this as a discouragement to those that run and the great patriots that help them, but rather to rejoice in seeing someone step up to announce their candidacy 13 months before the next election.

This past Thursday, I attended Jeff Semon‘s congressional kickoff party and was delighted to meet a patriot that understood that, in order to change public perception and run a truly viable campaign, he’d have to start early and work hard.

Jeff is a 35 year-old financial consultant and, while though we face re-districting in MA (yes we’re loosing 1.. maybe more in the future), his residence in Lexington all but guarantees his permanent presence in the 7th district and a run against Edward Markey, who ironically was first elected the year Jeff was born.

Read More: A Candidate To Watch: Jeff Semon For Congress in MA07

Now granted, we’ve been more critical than most of our Junior Senator Scott Brown, however with no primary challenger and a laundry list of liberals coming out of the woodwork to run against him, we’ll definitely have some fun covering this race before we hold our respective noses in the voting booth.

One of the numerous liberals hoping to replace Brown is Bob Massie, a former candidate for Massachusetts’ Lieutenant Governor back in 1994.  While he spent almost 20 years out of the political arena, Massie founded the “Global Reporting Initiative“, a not-for-profit in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

GRI’s describes themselves on their site as:

Vision

A sustainable global economy where organizations manage their economic, environmental, social and governance performance and impacts responsibly, and report transparently.

Mission

To make sustainability reporting standard practice by providing guidance and support to organizations.

Massie himself speaks about the goals of the Global Reporting Initiative in a video on his campaign youtube channel,

Read More: MA Senate Candidate: Retool US Economy, Soros-Funded “Global Reporting Initiative”

As if the education system in Massachusetts couldn’t be any further slanted to the left, we received word today that State Senate Democrats have voted to keep American History out of the classroom. This is an obvious attempt by the liberal ‘intelligentsia’, who have had oligarchic control over MA for generations, to ensure power by dumbing down the electorate.

Read More: MA Dems Remove American History From Standardized Tests