Occupy Wall Street protesters throw condoms, drown out speakers at Rhode Island pro-life rally

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/occupy-wall-street-protesters-throw-condoms-drown-out-speakers-at-rhode-isl ^ | 1/30/2012 | Ben Johnson

[Morgana]

PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.

About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday.

The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.”

That’s when they “started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school.”

They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.

Bracy, who finished only a quarter of his keynote address before being drowned out by chants and catcalls, said the Occupiers – who carried a large sign reading “Occupy Providence” and wore distinguishing arm bands – physically bumped several people. “They’re touching you. They’re swarming you,” he said.

The Providence chapter openly planned its actions on its Facebook page, Bracy said.

Bracy said he was disappointed when he tried to ask a man from the national Occupy Wall Street movement, who identified himself as “Dallas,” what opposing the right to life had to do with economics. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/why-does-occupy-wall-st.-support-big-abortion “You can’t have a reasoned conversation with these people,” he said, “They simply try to taunt you. They’re smug, snarky, arrogant. You won’t get a straight answer.”

Dallas told Bracy he was on a 13-city national tour to teach Saul Alinsky tactics to local organizers.

“Their actions have made it loud and clear, whatever else they are, they are pro-abortion – and they are willing to attack the pro-life movement,” Bracy told LifeSiteNews.

Members of the Occupy movement, which putatively focuses on economic and financial issues, have begun aggressively demonstrating against those who advocate for the rights of the unborn.

Approximately 15 protesters from Occupy D.C. disrupted the March for Life Youth Rally in the nation’s capital last Saturday evening.

Last Monday, they disrupted a prayer service for the unborn in front of the Supreme Court.

“What they did yesterday was clearly the most outrageous and egregious thing they’ve done so far,” Bracy said on Friday. “I don’t know if this is a sign of what’s to come from them, but I think it’s important Catholics and pro-lifers know who these people are.”

However, such outrageous and offensive tactics may prove counterproductive for the pro-abortion movement. “They couldn’t have done us a bigger favor,” Bracy said. “We’re more popular with the legislators than we’ve ever been, because they’re absolutely appalled at their behavior.”

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Sounds like they don’t know what condoms are for.

Throwing them at girls doesn’t work at all.

[topher]

Need to find some video of what happened for FoxNews.com

FoxNews.com has this article posted under Politics -- excerpting from the LifeSiteNews.com article.

[Nowhere Man]

Don’t complain. Fight back, or quite whining.

Well, these people who did that to these girls are nothing but bullies. Bullies with an agenda but bullies still. I used to be the typical radio/electronics, and later computer and role playing gamer, nerd who got bullied in grade and junior high school. Mom told me that you have to fight them back and defend yourself. In doing so, you have to accept the fact that you might get beat up and bleed at your end but still fight for yourself or they will walk all over you everytime. If somebody would come back at them and give them a knuckle sandwich, maybe some of them will wise up, stop it and go home. However, a lot of these people might not do that, well, it is their ideology that drives them. In that case, we have these outcomes where we win either by inflicting so much pain on them, they cry "Uncle" and stop or they do the same to us. Myself, I think we need to be prepared to fight and win, I fear being on the losing side of this, we need to win this one. We are in an ideological "Cold War" but it seems to be getting hotter, this has been brewing for the last 10, 50 or even 100 years. We need to prepare and prepare to win, there are no alternatives.