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Conservative Commentary
by Ed
Donath
November 11, 2011 |
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Defending
the right to rant! |
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The signs of hypocrisy.
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A sign in an
occupied Sacramento park: |
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A report
from CBS13-TV in Sacramento about the Occupy
Movement in that California city is at once very sad and
filled with
comic
irony.
"As the Occupy
Sacramento movement settles in for another night in Cesar Chavez Park, another group
sits, watches and wonders if they’ll ever get what they call
'their
park'
back.
For years this plaza
in the heart of Sacramento has been a homeless hide-away." |
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So they're feeding the homeless in Cesar Chavez Park right? |
“These homeless people have
been out here a lot longer than you have,” a
permanent park resident directed his on-camera comment at the
occupiers. “I
just wish they’d give us our park back,” a
homeless woman lamented. These two are among the dozens of homeless people who have signed a petition
hoping to
"make the Occupy group to go
away."
Some of the
homeless say they’ve lost their freedom.
“They got their
own security, they act like the police,”
a regular park resident told the
CBS13 reporter.
“Any time you do any thing, they say you can’t do this and that …
and we’re saying ‘you’re not the police!’”
But an Occupy Sacramento organizer
(hey, she could end up occupying the White House someday)
alleges harassment by the formerly
exclusive occupiers of Cesar Chavez Park. “On numerous occasions
[one of the homeless women] came to me with violent threats like 'I’m going to get you,’
just terrible things,” the organizer said,
adding that she felt so
threatened by the homeless woman she thought about getting a
restraining order.
Fortunately for Ms. Occupy Organizer she realized, in the nick
of time, that she would have to invite the Sacramento police over to take her
complaint report in order to get that restraining order.
Think of the hot water she'd be in if her more violent
anti-police protester counterparts in Oakland and elsewhere
ever found out that she let cops into the occupied park
merely to deal with an angry doubly-homeless
woman who just wants to get her park back.
(I know the hot water analogy doesn't really work with
these Occupy people but it's a far more PC term than
deep doo-doo.)
And
while we're on the subject of the police
(those stooges of
the greedy one-percenters, according to the protestors) how is it
that the occupiers' own security team is barely
distinguishable from real cops in the eyes of street-savvy homeless folks who've
certainly had ample encounters with both forces?
You'd think, while those greedy corporatists
(restaurateurs, dry cleaners,
clothing store owners and the like)
have been decimated and, in some cases, eliminated by
successful occupiers in New York, Oakland and elsewhere,
that the Robin Hoods of the Occupy Movement would go out
of their way to redistribute wealth to the most impoverished
members of American society
(like homeless people in urban parks)
and that they would certainly provide for their common
security in the most caring and friendly manner.
Do
you think dozens of park squatters would be signing an
eviction petition if the protesters were looking out for
their human needs...if they were sharing food, clothing and
temporary shelter with them...if they were being careful not to
cause them undue stress...if they were not disturbing the
peace of
their home?
Occupy Movement signs tell us how much the do-gooders care for
humanity. In reality, their selfish actions speak louder than their
phony words and signs -- the signs of hypocrisy.
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