The Occupiers are selfish bastards. Really, what else can you say when you read a quote like this, from an Occupier who tried to invade a park owned by a church:
“We’re just trying to say that this country has gone in the wrong direction, and we need spaces that we can control and we can decide our future in, and that’s what this is about,” said David Suker, who was among those who scaled the fence.
And there’s this, from another Occupier, the day before:
“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.”
This is what sanctuary looks like:
And they wonder why most of the country thinks they’re a bunch of selfish, spoiled children. Hell, even Desmond Tutu thinks they’re a bunch of jerks.
“In a country where all people can vote and Trinity’s door to dialogue is open, it is not necessary to forcibly break into property,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement Friday.
On the other hand, the media are still in the tank for OWS. Look at the headlines about this invasion of private property:
50 arrested in Occupy Wall Street demonstration
Occupy Wall St. arrests after church lot breached
NYC Occupy protesters scale fence at vacant lot
Arrests as Occupy Protest Turns to Church
And this quote goes in the final paragraph of the New York Times version, and is seen nowhere else:
“O.W.S. protestors call out for social and economic justice; Trinity has been supporting these goals for more than 300 years,” Dr. Cooper said in a statement. “We do not, however, believe that erecting a tent city at Duarte Square enhances their mission or ours.”
Eating their own, is the phrase you’re looking for. The Occupiers are alienating their supporters. As Glenn Reynolds says, #occupyfail.
The Occupiers’ motto: Gimme.
‘“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.” ‘
No wonder the Obama Administration and so many other Dems loved the OWS brats from the start; they have the same attitude.
I doubt this event will teach the nitwits at the Episcopal Church anything. They’ll just go gaga over the next batch of left-wing wannabe parasites to emerge from the collapsing welfare state.
I am feeling my oldthinker mindset here because if they need space they could, you know, raise some money and rent a place. But that’s a lot less thrilling than taking over someone else’s property.
Alex,
It’s also not In-Your-Face offensive to The Man. It is just as important to these leeches to get in their faces (to quote a temporarily famous, leftist political leader) as it is to accomplish their goal of setting up another cesspool* of an encampment. Like the New Left, of which they are spiritual descendents, they want to humiliate and mock their enemies. Being rather dull-witted, they don’t appreciate that their behavior is largely self-mocking.
Besides, Daddy and Mumsy won’t pony up the money for the rent, and they’ve all maxed out on their student loans studying puppetry, Multiculturalism, Sociology, and Deconstructionist Hermaneutics.
*Given the amount of human waste removed from those Occupier encampments in various cities, the outbreak of diseases related to poor sanitation, and the presence of lice in those encampments, I do not think the word “cesspool” is innacurate.