OK, OK, don’t all angrily write to me all at once.  I am not making light of what they Occupy (fill in place name) Boston people are doing.  I respect their seriousness of purpose and am generally in favor of movements that originate with the people.

None of the following signs indicate that I am in favor of what is in the signs.  Don’t write to me about that either.  If the Tea Party were out in Boston waving banners, I’d be out there photographing it as well.  I decided a long time ago that I would not use this blog as a forum for my political beliefs.  People who know me who read this blog know what my political beliefs are.  And using this thing to express my opinions would be kind of lame, in my opinion.

When I take a photo, I have to see some kind of merit, color-wise or compositionally.  Politically, I don’t need to see merit.  In other words, were Mitt Romney to be standing in front of me and his face were to be arranged in an interesting way, I’d be snapping away.

OK, enough time on the soap box.  I just expended all of those words to say I am not on a soap box.  Now I am off the soap box.  This is a picture blog, so let’s have some photos.

An interesting manifestation of humanity:

 

The 99%:

 

Every good protest needs at least one ninja:

This brought a kind of be-in feeling to the whole thing:

And these are just kind of general protest photos:

And a few things that aren’t people:

And the original non-violent protester was there.  Well, sort of: