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Edited on Fri Dec-23-11 10:37 AM by freshwest
From the Greg Palast article at the link, mostly done written in a jester's style, as that seems to be the only way one is heard now:
'According to the Bishop (in an interview recorded, I kid you not, while cuffed in the wagon), his Church plans to lease the property to a developer for a skyscraper and is afraid that allowing protesters to move in would devalue their holdings - bring down the neighborhood, so to speak.'
And with at least one policeman trying to follow the law and what the NYC administration has said, to stop suppressing the Press:
'Not every cop went along. One policeman, told to arrest Zach, resisted the command: "This guy's a journalist! What are we doing!?"'
The lines are getting clearer, unfortunately.
'...OWS asked to use a parcel of empty land owned by Trinity, the oldest and arguably the wealthiest church in America, landlord for much of the real estate called Wall Street...
Despite the pleas of Bishop Packard, several priests and even fellow Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Trinity's administrators refused Occupy's request, choosing, in Tutu's thinking, Mammon over the church's moral mission.'
And the level of discourse in this country continues to be lowered by knuckle dragging GOP candidates calling the OWS movement names like a bar room of drunks in the last stages of inebriation. Or, more exactly, just like the conservative phlegm spit out nation-wide on talk radio and cable news every single hour of the day and night.
While an untaxed and unregulated institution like Trinity, who I thought quite highly of as they are the place I've heard David Korten and other anti-Wall Street, anti-war advocates get warm receptions, can't stomach their untaxed parcel of land being squatted upon. The Sermon on the Mount and Book of Revelations must be out of print, or otherwise no longer available for public reading due to copyright.
As an aside, I know people whose churches have been shut down for services by their diocese, who leased their buildings, which they paid for out of their tithes for their entire working lives. The are no longer allowed access to the sanctuary, which now sits unused. The rest of the building has been given out to more profitable groups instead of allowing these community minded seniors and others to even meet for prayers despite their pleas. The people they've leased to no longer keep up the building or grounds as these faithful old volunteers did for free, and allow parties to strew beer cans and trash there. The elderly, faithful believers have been banished, without any vote or being heard, heartbroken. Mammon indeed.
Who does the Earth belong to? Is it God's or mankind's, or its own? And who are these that claim to have the power to decide who, how and where others will exist, or perish from being denied the bounty of what is alleged to be God's or Nature's bounty? This was the question of the native Americans and the Founding Fathers, such as Thomas Paine, and many other great philosophers. And it is now the query of OWS, which rightfully named 'Occupy.'
These modern day lords and masters, made rich by a parasitical financial system, ought to consider that they are on the wrong side of history. Unless they're playing a Rovian game of being the only ones who allowed to make history, and the rest of us merely spectators. Is there some cosmic secret they aren't sharing, that the 99% don't know about?
Edited to reference Greg Palast as the source of the quotations.
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