Finally: A Mission Statement

Monday 19 December 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

It seems that the Occupy movement has, after months of floundering in their “progressive stack” general assembly meetings, been able to conjure their intellectual might and articulate a mission statement. The New York Times:

For months, they were the best of neighbors: the slapdash champions of economic equality, putting down stakes in an outdoor plaza, and the venerable Episcopal parish next door, whose munificence helped sustain the growing protest.

A lot, near Canal Street and Avenue of the Americas, that is owned by Trinity Wall Street and coveted by protesters.
But in the weeks since Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, relations between the demonstrators and Trinity Wall Street, a church barely one block from the New York Stock Exchange, have reached a crossroads.

The displaced occupiers had asked the church, one of the city’s largest landholders, to hand over a gravel lot, near Canal Street and Avenue of the Americas, for use as an alternate campsite and organizing hub. The church declined, calling the proposed encampment “wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious.”

And now the Occupy movement, after weeks of targeting big banks and large corporations, has chosen Trinity, one of the nation’s most prominent Episcopal parishes, as its latest antagonist.

“We need more; you have more,” one protester, Amin Husain, 36, told a Trinity official on Thursday, during an impromptu sidewalk exchange between clergy members and demonstrators. “We are coming to you for sanctuary.”

“We need more; you have more”, eh? Sounds about right for a group that feels they’re entitled to other people’s shit.

And Amin: I don’t think that “sanctuary” means what you think it means. Threatening to take private property by force is not seeking sanctuary. It’s extortion.

2011-12-19  »  madlibertarianguy