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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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So is that representing some kind of official position? OWS hates Catholics or something? Or is it the girls that the movement hates? Either way, there’s some kind of negative energy going on here:
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.”
Last week’s rally was held inside the rotunda of the state capitol in Providence. Bracy said the Occupiers, along with some pro-choice demonstrators, infiltrated the crowd of some 150 pro-lifers. He said the pro-life crowd was made up of senior citizens, mothers with young children, Cub Scouts, and school kids.
Bracy said one of the most egregious incidents occurred when an Occupier climbed to the third floor balcony and dumped a box of condoms on girls from a Catholic school.
“What kind of individual throw condoms at Catholic school girls,” Bracy asked.
I haven’t been able to find a story that describes whether these were used or not. I would assume it was the unusued kind…”box of condoms” sounds like you run into a drug store, buy a box, and there’s condoms in there ready for dumping out of a window (although I would think you’d want to tear the strips down into the individual items?). That does seem quickest.
I dunno…looks to me like, just general directionless left-wing-ish-ness. It’s rather absurd that half a year into it, we still need to be puzzling together what the beef of the OWS movement is.
I’ve noticed lefties have a tendency to come up with bullshit and then believe their own bullshit. Operative bullshit here would be: “The Tea Party movement is nothing but resentment against having a black man as president.” That belief was somehow carried into a war room someplace, where someone pointed out the lefties needed an answer to the Tea Party, and all assembled quickly fell upon the notion, just like a jackal throwing itself upon a half-eaten carcass, that there must be some appeal involved in getting a bunch of people outside marching, carrying signs, and talking to reporters. There must be nothing else required to make everything all fall in place because, heck, they couldn’t see anything in what the Tea Party was doing, and they were all-seeing and all-knowing, so there must not have been anything there.
Since then, they’ve been carrying their signs, yelling epithets at anyone who will listen, doing their camping, and hoping some message would congeal. They’re working from the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, and have become something of a cargo cult.
That’s my operating theory about OWS, anyway. Throwing condoms on the Catholic kids, I think, is just part of a much older resentment.
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