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Posted on 10/20/2011 12:28:11 PM PDT by servo1969
Credit the Occupy whatever movement with this: their protests are unwittingly underscoring the critical importance of property rights. I say "unwittingly" because they apparently lack the wits to figure that out.
Reports of rape, theft, sexual assault (even against children), and other such crimes taking place within the Occupy tent villages have begun to surface. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Occupy Baltimore has sent a memo out discouraging protesters who are sexually assaulted by fellow protesters from contacting police, but rather to let the movement handle it internally.
Put starkly, it is extremely dangerous to live in tents with a bunch of people who oppose individual rights of life, liberty, and property. Female protesters are especially at risk. Naifs with $5,500 laptops and other high-dollar items who are protesting "the rich" are also asking for trouble. Parents who mindlessly drone "think of the children" should do exactly that and leave them at home.
By now it's known that the movement is supported by Communist Party USA, the American Nazi Party, Communist China, President Barack Obama, ad nauseam. Basically, it's supported by International Socialists, National Socialists, and Don't-Call-Me-Socialists.
All strains of socialism -- whether international, national, or in-denial -- believe the individual must be subsumed to the state collective, which is euphemized "the common good." At its core, socialism out of necessity obliterates the idea that each individual has God-given rights that no man or government may take away, including life, liberty, property, freedom to pursue one's own dreams, and related freedoms.
Those all are essentially property rights, with one's own person being the first and most important. If you cannot command your own self, you are a slave. Socialists want everyone to be slaves to "the common good"; as Orwell's socialist police state taught, Freedom Is Slavery. They also prefer to be the ones deciding what exactly is the common good.
Granted, the possibilities to be realized through socialism must be intoxicating to entitled hippie wannabes who sunk themselves deep in debt pursuing degrees in various Victimization Studies and so forth who are outraged they weren't swarmed upon graduation with employers begging to give them six-figure salaries as Social Justice Executive Officers. The rich should pay off their loans and give them acceptably high-paying jobs, or else the world is broken. If they don't, the government should make them.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. That is their cherished creed. It always suits because they always see themselves as the needy, not the able.
There's not a Niemoller in the bunch to realize where that belief is taking them. A philosophy that makes ownership subjective to perceived need invites violence upon itself, not just the rich.
"Needs" aren't just pecuniary. Protesting guys have needs, too, and that attractive sociology student in the nearby tent looks like her body has the right "ability." The common good needs my continued presence, and my continued presence needs satisfaction, so I'm taking some. Some protesters can't afford the designer tents the others have, but look at that laptop over there -- that and a nearby pawnshop would take care of that need. The theft can be justified to serve the common good.
Once those needs have been filled -- in ways fully keeping with their mutually agreed-upon idea of social justice, mind you -- other needs arise. The movement needs to keep its rapes, thefts, molestations, and sexual assaults out of the news. Nothing must be reported that would make the movement appear bad. So your body is once again disregarded, a collective rape after the individual one. To serve the common good.
In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cataloged how the Soviets regarded thieves and violent criminals as their social allies. Crimes against individuals were essentially immaterial to their concern; they were worried about political "criminals." They enjoyed the idea of political criminals being robbed, raped, and abused by violent criminals. It fed the terror.
Solzhenitsyn's was the experience of life in a fully formed socialist dictatorship that had learned to use its criminal by-product to its full political advantage. But isn't it interesting that even in its amoebic forms, little socialist societies are already allowing and covering up crimes against their own members for the common good?
It's no accident. It's the logical result of their beliefs.
LOL...this kind of mindset will inevitably lead to chaos . . .much more so than currently perceived. Just you watch.
I guess common sense is out the window with these people.
It was sad to hear of the girl who was raped. But, the story was that they told her to sleep in a tent with a man she didn’t know. I’m sure that girl would never, under normal circumstances, go sleep in close proximity to a strange man. It’s like the common sense people should have is suspended because they are so enamored of this cause.
“Occupy Baltimore has sent a memo out discouraging protesters who are sexually assaulted by fellow protesters from contacting police, but rather to let the movement handle it internally.”
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Wow...unbelievable.
When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law—men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims—then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.
Chaos will inevitably occur amongst a group whose inherent beliefs reject respect for others’ private property.
Whoever wrote that memo should be indicted for "conspiracy to obstruct justice".
“Occupy Baltimore has sent a memo out discouraging protesters who are sexually assaulted by fellow protesters from contacting police, but rather to let the movement handle it internally.”
Very believable...
What’s a few raped women, compared to the glory of Obama, and the Fascist State?
This “Movement” is how Democrats are planning to “Change the Narrative” for the 2012 elections, and has been in the planning, FOR A LONG TIME...
You’ll take note of how loudly NBC News, MSNBC, and NPR have been pimping this, from the very beginning?
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Sadly, young women do not have the wariness about men that is warranted. They are taught that they can probably beat up most men or at least hold their own. At the risk of being perceived a Neanderthal, I suggest that usually men prevail.
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It is not Neanderthal at all, I’m female and agree 100%.
Though...hehehe...some fellas today aren’t much more than tinkle-standing females. But even those sorts by nature are stronger than the average female.
These people are pure evil.
Did you catch that last part?
They will be sure to supply the abuser/rapist with counseling for their issues.
Hey... that’s just super, huh?
I want to call Koala! Lardeass at (443) 6422-7596 and report that as a taxpayer Obama and the Democrats have raped me.
Wow...unbelievable.let the movement handle it internally
IOW, they're promising vigilante justice . . .Not that I would expect them to deliver on that promise - but that is what they are saying.
“Sadly, young women do not have the wariness about men that is warranted.”
By their actions, they demonstrate that they don’t. However, with their words, when it is to their benefit, they portray every man as a crazed savage one opportunity away from rape.
I imagine they're referring to conservative men only. They could never conceive of their "progressive brothers" having anything but the noblest of intentions.
>> Violation of this policy will result in the abuser no longer being welcome at the occupation.
Who wrote this? Someone from the UN?
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