On Friday, I wrote a post called, “Where’s The Outrage?” and it didn’t take long for that post to generate a significant amount of outrage. The post was about children who were being harassed, threatened or otherwise put in harm’s way as a result of the Occupy protest.
My point was simple. There had been a significant level of public outrage over the child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University but almost none over what was happening to children in Occupy camps. That’s changed.
Many people have written to tell me that they are outraged by what has happened and want Occupy camps shut down as a result.
Occupy supporters have written to accuse me of being a biased right-wing conservative, challenge my sources, attack me personally, deny that children are threatened and to rationalize that while children have been harmed or threatened it’s not as important as the bigger crimes of corporations.
It is bizarre to say the least.
I don’t care who it is or what the cause, no child should be subjected to physical, sexual or verbal abuse by anyone and that includes the police, Occupy or any other group or individual. I am outraged by it and even more outraged by the absolute unwillingness of anyone within the Occupy protest to step up, acknowledge that it as happened and put correcting it on their agenda.
OWS spent hours last night debating whether or not to spend money to buy tickets for a delegation to go to Egypt but not one word was spoken about how some of their protesters harassed children on the way to school last Tuesday.
This is a group that criticizes the morality of others.
This isn’t about poverty or politics or even about who’s right or who’s wrong when it comes to the issues we are all facing in this world. It’s about morality and legality. It’s about a protest movement so insecure; it lacks the courage to stand up and admit when it makes a mistake and then set about fixing that mistake. It’s about a protest movement so lost in its own self-importance that it only cares about its cause.
In response to this, I have had Occupy supporters write and tell me that "sacrifices have to be made for the greater good" and "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs." Occupy talks about doing all of this for 'the people' but when it comes to individual people, they ignore or deny or rationlaize what their protest is doing and has done to them. It’s small wonder that the majority of the 99% do not support Occupy or their tactics.
In response to this, I have had Occupy supporters write and tell me that "sacrifices have to be made for the greater good" and "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs." Occupy talks about doing all of this for 'the people' but when it comes to individual people, they ignore or deny or rationlaize what their protest is doing and has done to them. It’s small wonder that the majority of the 99% do not support Occupy or their tactics.
The simple truth is that too many people, including children, have been harmed. Small businesses have been threatened. Cities have been vandalized. Low wage earners have lost jobs. People have been exposed to lice, scabies and even tuberculosis. Women, some minors, have been raped; people have been assaulted, robbed and threatened. Seven people have died. And all of this has happened because of Occupy.
The cost measures close to $50 million so far and continues to climb.
Few of us challenge the right to protest. We challenge what Occupy has become and its version of protest. It is a cause without an objective. It is a protest with no solutions and a movement without the morality to be offended by injury to the most vulnerable around it.
Idealism is all well and good but when it is not supported by real and practical action, it is useless. Idealism without true morality is immoral and self-serving.
My opposition to Occupy is not a left vs. right issue, it isn’t a 1% vs. 99% issue and it isn’t about the right to protest vs. suppression of protest. My opposition is based solely on the principle that you can’t fight injustice by being unjust and any movement that ignores, denies or rationalizes those it hurts is no better than those it claims hurts others.
It is the hypocrisy of the Occupy protest I oppose. It is the lack of living the morality they preach that I oppose and it is the mindless waste of energy and the cost to our cities that I oppose.
When it’s all said and done, it is self-righteous rationalization instead of righteousness that I oppose. Because of that, Occupy is no longer about issues, it has made itself an issue and unfortunately, not an issue of change for the better.
LINKS
YouTube video of Occupy Protesters Use Children As Human Shields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIuHyDQzjxk
Video Of Occupy Portland Telling Protesters Not To Report Witnessed Sexual Assaults To Police
http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/11/11/occupyportland-if-you-witness-sexual-assault-%E2%80%9Cnobody-should-contact-the-police%E2%80%9D/
OWS Frighten School Children During National Day of Action With Chants And Taunts
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/ows-protesters-chant-follow-those-kids-as-small-children-try-to-go-to-school-on-wall-street/#.TsW3b9av2TQ.twitter
The Occupy Rap Sheet: 302 crimes and incidents to date
Article By Huffington Post: Occupy Does Not Have The Support Of The Majority Of The 99%
Man Arrested In Occupy Philly For Sexual Assault
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