There’s nothing worse than when you’re trying to hold a protest decrying inequality and promoting the distribution of wealth and some dirty poor people ruin it by trying to claim a share of what you have:
The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.
Someone should tell the “professional homeless” about the people who are really suffering during this economy. You think it’s easy trying to pay off $100,000 in student loans when all you have is a degree in Sustainability Studies? If the protestors didn’t have the spaghetti bolognese to eat they might be forced to go to McDonalds or something. Is that what you want, poor people? Do you want to make the Occupy Wall Street protestors eat Big Macs?
Sometimes you homeless people can be so insensitive.
(Via: Rod Dreher)
October 28th, 2011 | 12:31 pm
ah Joe, so true, so true. Can you imagine how Dorothy Day would react?
October 28th, 2011 | 1:51 pm
I thought we were all in this together? Aren’t ‘we the people,’ including the homeless, part of the 99%?
Human nature can sure throw a monkey wrench into the best laid plans of idealists.
October 29th, 2011 | 12:52 am
Just wait till they see how messy those porta-potties get when the masses of the great unwashed have access to them.
the guillotines will not be far behind.
October 29th, 2011 | 2:03 pm
Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out — so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals.
Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.
Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals.
A team of 10 security volunteers moved in to the trouble-prone southwest section of Zuccotti Park in a show of force to confront them.
“We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said.
Some arguments broke out as the security team searched tents — but no violence erupted.
Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said.
Rumors swirled that one homeless man had pulled a knife in a dispute the night before — and that there had been yet another case of groping.
But protesters and a cop on duty told The Post that most of the crime goes unreported, because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule.
What do you have to do to qualify as a “legitimate” protester, I wonder?
I don’t understand what it is that these people are doing to “destroy the whole movement” – are they all pulling knives on people, or is eating a full share of food what is going to “destroy” everything?
I guess I’m just confused as to which ones are “squatters” or “vagrants”….
October 30th, 2011 | 9:10 am
Professional homeless people hurting the cause. I never thought I would see the day when those poor, for the most part, mentally challenged people on the streets are considered ‘professionals’. sic.
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