Occupy Wall Street Marxism: Grabbing What They Want

Trinity Wall Street, a historic church in New York City, is now the new target for the Occupy Wall Street protest. Quite simply, they don't want protesters squatting on their property.

But Occupy Wall Street isn't pleased. In fact, they're downright ticked off that Trinity, who in the beginning supported the protest, is now saying "Great idea, but not here."

You don't say "no" to Occupy Wall Street and get away with it.

Today: Saturday, December 17, 2011 -- the day Occupy Wall Street was going to "re-occupy" Wall Street by squatting on a lot owned by Trinity. Except Trinity isn't playing.

From The New York Times (emphasis ours):

And now the Occupy movement, after weeks of targeting big banks and large corporations, has chosen Trinity, one of the nation’s most prominent Episcopal parishes, as its latest antagonist. 

“We need more; you have more,” one protester, Amin Husain, 36, told a Trinity official on Thursday, during an impromptu sidewalk exchange between clergy members and demonstrators. “We are coming to you for sanctuary.”

Sanctuary? 

A sanctuary is a place of refuge and protection. It is used for those who are hunted down and persecuted. Has Occupy Wall Street reached this stage? Who is hunting them? The film crews from MSNBC? Stephen Colbert? The zoo?

And why would they need protection? It seems to us that those within an Occupy Wall Street encampment would certainly need protection, since there is plenty of crime around. (Big H/T to Big Government, who is keeping score.)

Meanwhile, Trinity wants nothing to do with a "re-occupy" land grab. In their words, they are calling it “wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious.”

The church's Reverend James H. Cooper says that Trinity has already done plenty when it came to supporting the protest. They gave them use of their location for meetings, use of bathrooms, even some hot chocolate and blankets.

But that's not enough for the protesters. Understand that no matter what Marxists get, it's never enough. They will always want more and have no problem either forcing people to give it to them or just outright steal it. Think of it as an en masse mugging.

From the same NYT article:

Rev. Michael Ellick, of Judson Memorial Church, a Greenwich Village congregation affiliated with the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ, said Trinity needed to do more.

“Charity is not enough,” Mr. Ellick said. “Charity keeps things the same.”

Are you serious? When is charity not enough?

When you're dealing with Occupy Wall Street's warped reasoning skills.

Occupy Wall Street is complaining that "the rich" aren't paying their "fair share." But when questioned how exactly does one arrive at a "fair share" number -- they get angry because they've been caught in their own web of deceit. For a Marxist, there is no such number. A Marxist will take everything for redistribution.

Evidently, the same is true for charity. Giving what you can will never be enough.

Marxism wants EVERYTHING you own.

So for Trinity, it's not enough they provided lodging, bathroom facilities, drink, and warmth. The Occupy Wall Street protesters (being the Marxist brats that they are) want more. More! More! More!

As Trinity's pastor said (emphasis ours):

“Trinity has probably done as much or more for the protesters than any other institution in the area,” Mr. Cooper wrote on his parish Web site. “Calling this an issue of ‘political sanctuary’ is manipulative and blind to reality. Equating the desire to seize this property with uprisings against tyranny is misguided, at best. Hyperbolic distortion drives up petition signatures, but doesn’t make it right.”

No truer words have been spoken.