Tag Archives: Occupy

Occupy the garden shed

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If you do, make sure you don’t pay anyone for the privilege because, if you do, he will be fined and you will be kicked out.

From here:

A B.C. woman has been fined $500 for renting out a garden shed to a homeless couple and their three dogs.

A power cord that ran from the woman’s house in Kelowna, B.C., supplied electricity to the small metal building, for which she was charging rent of $200 per month.

It’s not clear how long the people and pets had been living in the shed. Bylaw officers warned the owner two weeks ago it was not suitable accommodation, but the advice was ignored, said city spokesman Stephen Fleming.

The mistake the homeless couple and their dogs made was they weren’t making a political statement. Had they been occupying the shed illegally and put up a sign to the effect that they were the 99%, no-one would have touched them, Anglican clergy would have preached sermons about them and celebrities would have paid them a visit for a photo-op.

Lacking that foresight, they are now not only homeless but shedless – although the Kelowna Gospel Mission has generously offered them a place at its shelter.

Occupiers throw condoms at Catholic school girls

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From here:

A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a Right to Life rally and threw condoms on Catholic school girls inside the Rhode Island state capitol building.

Barth Bracy, executive director of Rhode Island Right to Life, said their rally had to be cut short after the Occupiers began screaming and refused to allow a Catholic priest to deliver a prayer.

“This is their idea of civil speech but we believe it’s an outrage,” Bracy told Fox News & Commentary “They started heckling, chanting and blowing whistles. They shouted down a priest.”

The modern condom was an invention of Julius Fromm, a Jew who lived in Germany. His invention was seized by the Nazis: you can read about it in the illuminating book, The Great Rubber Robbery: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis.

There is nothing new under the sun: Nazis have once more seized condoms, this time to use as missiles aimed at Catholics trying to prevent the murdering of unborn babies.

 

Occupiers urinate on a cross

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Presumably, this is an attempt by the Occupy movement to further ingratiate itself with The Episcopal Church.

Oddly enough, even though any minute I’m expecting to read a statement from an Occupy admiring bishop explaining how this furthers the church’s mission in some obscure way, it hasn’t worked.

The Occupiers have been asked to leave within two weeks. This gives them plenty of time to come up with new mischief with which to tax the limits of the gracious pastoral response that benighted clerics feel compelled to extend to anyone muttering the incantation “poor and marginalised”.

The Occupiers also stole part of a baptismal font; still, what more could they do in two weeks?

Arson.

From here:

There’s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that’s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week.

When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.

In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.”

In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.

In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, “The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.”

The pastor of the church did not return calls.

At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl.

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The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.

Making wearing a mask during a riot illegal

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From here:

A private member’s bill set for debate Thursday in Ottawa would make it a crime to cover your face with a mask or other means during a riot.

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The Alberta MP’s bill exempts people from the bill that have a “lawful excuse” for covering their face. It does not define what a lawful excuse would be under the proposed legislation.

It’s anyone’s guess what would constitute a “lawful excuse”, but I’m betting that if the bill passes, the next riot will see a dramatic increase in burkas.

OWS protester demands free capitalist hamburger from McDonald's

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From here:

An Occupy Wall Street protestor was arrested early Friday after a violent rampage at a McDonald’s that refused to offer him free food.

The NYPD says it happened at about 2:45 a.m. at a McDonald’s near the make-shift tent city in Zuccotti Park.

The man, who had not been identified, went into the world’s largest restaurant chain and demanded free food, apparently craving a burger over the gourmet food being served in the park.

The people behind the counter, who are working instead of protesting, were not about to offer the man free food.

The protester then turned violent, even breaking a machine inside of the store before police arrived and arrested the 27-year-old.

As we all know, McDonald’s is a place where the unspoken anxieties of society can often find a voice; it is a stage on which to conduct by proxy the arguments that society itself does not know how to handle.  The urgent larger issues raised by those demanding free hamburgers remain very much on the table and we need – as fast food consumers and as society as a whole – to work to make sure that they are properly addressed.

The eviction of one hamburger-crazed anti-capitalist activist has constituted violence in the name of the purveyors of grease-laden unhealthy food the world over.

But at least it has triggered awareness of the need to advance the moral agenda of redistributing artery clogging fat to those who aren’t getting their fair share.

h/t mcj