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A vestige of Occupy Toronto lives on

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From here:

TORONTO – A dozen Occupy Toronto members set up a small tent city adjacent to City Hall Tuesday to protest the cuts in the city’s 2012 budget.

Late Wednesday, they were still there and determined to have their voices heard.

Why do you need a tent to make your voice heard? Are they talking tents?

This ragtag assortment is protesting the Toronto budget cuts. Except, that is, for Wes Trotman who seems to be on a camping vacation and has just lost his way:

Wes Trotman is camping out, but admits he doesn’t know anything about the budget.

Bishop Philip Poole illustrates the essence of the Occupy Movement

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From here (Page 12):

The Occupy movement began as—and, fundamentally, continues to be—a protest against the growing gap between rich and poor, the increasingly appalling concentration of wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of many.

And here is Bishop Philip Poole giving his pictorial illustration to the occupiers in St. James Park on the increasingly appalling concentration of wealth in the hands of bishops who earn over $100,000 per year. While the poor soul puffing on – well, whatever he is puffing on – can’t even afford a chair to sit on.

The Diocese of Toronto is not just about composting

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I thought it was, but apparently, it isn’t. As Bishop Colin Johnson tells us in this address to synod, it’s also about things like Occupy Toronto slogans and living simply.

This is not just about recycling or composting, although that might be a good start for some people. Most of us need to learn to live simply, so that others can simply live. The Occupy movement’s slogan, I think, might be more useful: “A few might be guilty, but all of us are responsible.” And so we spend time at this synod considering our environment, our place in it, our responsibility, how it is part of God’s mission.

Now he has inspired us with his address, I would like to encourage Bishop Colin to simplify his life by moving into a one room tent in St. James’ park where he will be able to continue his “long-standing work of advocacy and direct service regarding poverty, [and] homelessness” unfettered by the constraints of ecclesiastical bureaucracy.

Bishop Colin astutely notes that Occupy Toronto has managed to achieve something that has eluded the Diocese of Toronto for decades. It has:

touched something real and deep in the psyche of our world today, an anxiety and a disenfranchisement and a sense of huge loss, but what they also touched was really an active hope. That the world as it is, is not the world as it should be. One of the slogans that I saw at one of the tents really struck me. It said: “As you look around the world, does it feel right?”

The slogan was quite true, of course, although it would have been less so had the occupiers made more use of the toilets instead of the grass.

It’s easy to see why St. James isn’t offering Occupy Toronto sanctuary

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This is what has been done to St. Paul’s Cathedral:

Mr Cottam wrote: ‘Desecration: – graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on the restored pillars of the west portico.

‘Human defecation has occurred in the west portico entrance and inside the cathedral on several occasions.’

The Dean of St. James Cathedral, Douglas Stoute, has reiterated that the Occupy Toronto protesters will not be allowed to take sanctuary on Cathedral property, having concluded, I imagine, that it is one thing to stand with the poor – or the faux-poor, depending on one’s perspective – it is quite another to stand in their excrement.

 

Occupy Toronto is angry at the Church

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From here:

TORONTO – Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park lashed out at the neighbouring church on Saturday, calling its officials un-Christian for vowing to stand behind a possible eviction.

Douglas Stoute, the rector of St. James Cathedral located on the west side of the park, said Thursday the church would back any decision made by Justice David Brown, who will decide Monday whether or not to uphold a city-issued eviction that would see the removal of occupiers from the park, including the church’s portion.

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Up until now, St. James Cathedral has allowed a food station, several tents and a yurt to be on its portion of the park since occupiers set up camp in mid-October. And some demonstrators recently said they would flee to the church’s portion of land should police end up enforcing an eviction.

“They’re not Christians,” Occupy organizer Antonin Smith said angrily Saturday in reaction to Stout’s announcement, calling the support the church has given the park occupiers to this point “cosmetic.”

“I appreciate the support they’ve given us, I just thought it extended a lot further…I don’t appreciate being stabbed in the back,” said Smith, who had been in discussions with the church since the occupation of the park began.

“If Jesus were here, he’d be in a tent…Given his values, I imagine he’d be walking with as, along with Allah and Buddha,” he said.

I almost feel sorry for Douglas Stoute. There he is working for a denomination that has, for the most part not only abandoned Christianity, but forgotten what it is, being lectured by squatting miscreants on the nature of Christianity.

To compound the irony, the half baked things the occupiers are saying about Christianity and the reason for the Incarnation could just have easily fallen from the lips of a trendy Anglican bishop – or Dean Douglas Stoute.

St. James Cathedral supports Occupy Toronto – up to a point

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From here:

The City of Toronto has issued a notice under the Trespass to Property Act requiring Occupy Toronto to remove tents, shelters, structures, equipment and debris from St. James Park.

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Our primary concern is for the safety of the most vulnerable members of the Occupy Toronto movement. We are also looking to find a way to continue the conversation around the issues raised by the movement.
The Very Reverend Douglas Stoute, Dean of Toronto & Rector of St. James Cathedral

However, it seems that the Dean doesn’t want to “continue the conversation” inside the cathedral:

the Anglican dean of Toronto said protesters cannot use the adjacent St. James Cathedral to evade eviction if the court rules they must leave. The church owns some of the land next to the cathedral but the city owns the rest.

The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, on the other hand, has announced something he may live to regret:

The Archbishop of Wales has said he would allow anti-capitalist protesters to shelter overnight in Llandaff Cathedral if they set up camp outside.

I used to live in rooms just around the corner from Llandaff Cathedral for about £4 per week. Had I known the Cathedral was prone to offering free accommodation, I would have moved in there.

Linda Gibbons spends 3 months in jail on outdated injunction

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Linda Gibbons, a 63 year old great grandmother has just spent three months in jail for silently protesting outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic. The arrest was for violating a court injunction designed to prevent her protest – except the injunction was invalid because it was out of date.

So while a harmless little old lady is illegally incarcerated for three months because she protested the killing of unborn babies, an assortment of degenerate yahoos are allowed to break numerous bye-laws by camping in a Toronto park to protest capitalism, all the while being enthusiastically cheered on by Church, union and batty journalists. That’s called social justice in this funny old world.

From here:

After three months in prison, Linda Gibbons was found not guilty on a charge of disobeying a court order and released from custody to the hugs of supporters in a downtown Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon. Justice Alphonse T. Lacavera determined Sheriff Peter Krause improperly read the text of an outdated injunction when he directed that she be arrested outside the Morgentaler Clinic (known corporately as “Lexogest Inc.”) abortion site this past August 4.

Bishop of Toronto, Colin Johnson says Occupy Toronto “needed to happen”

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According to the speaker and parrots in this video, Bishop Colin Johnson has given his blessing to Occupy Toronto.

Is this a case of the adrift leading the incoherent? Probably, but since the good bishop has taken the spiritual lead, the squatters should consider relocating around the corner from St. James Park to 135 Adelaide Street where there is a nice stretch of firm, dry pavement to camp on; it would bring them much closer to the bishop.

 

Occupy Toronto attracts the usual suspects

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Translation of the banners:

Corporate greed = profitable company.

1917 = Trotskyite revolutionaries = bullet in the back of the head in a dark alley.

socialist.ca = we hate Harper = we hate Capitalism = we love Islam = we have disconnected our brains.

Marxist.ca = socialist.ca is the moderate version of us.

Worker Communist Party of Iraq = Marxist.ca is the moderate version of us.

Bob Rae = a man desperately seeking votes and one of the first against the wall if any of the above get their way.