Not that they had a lot of good image to keep shiny in the first place, mind you…  but stories published in the media continue to show the true colors of the “Occupy” movement.  Starting with the “Occupy Des Moines” movement, right here in my backyard, where the occupiers have said that they will return to the Capital grounds this evening despite being told that they cannot spend the night there and having been evicted once before.  According to the article, how the ISP handles the situation will play an important part in how this event turns out.  In reality, there’s only one way that ISP should react, and that’s to arrest the protestors for trespassing.

In New York City, Occupy protestors sunk to new lows when they defiled church property.  Ignoring the classic “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” proverb, protestors urinated on a crucifix in one church, and stole a baptismal font in another.  These are churches that opened their doors to the protestors to give them a place to get out of the cold, and this is how their generosity and “humanity” is repaid.  One of the church pastors gave the protestors two weeks to clear out.  He’s a better man than I am, I suppose.  I would have given them two hours, if that long.

Finally, up in Indianapolis, Occupy protestors – joined by union members – are threatening to disrupt Super Bowl activities if Governor Mitch Daniels signs into law new Right to Work legislation.  Legislation that allows workers to choose if they want to belong to a union or not, and loosens the grip that unions have on companies and their workers.

So let’s recap a few things here.  If you are an Occupy supporter, please by all means chime in and give your side of the story.

The Occupy movement is supposed to be about “democracy” and “power to the people over corporations.”  Yet in Indianapolis, Occupy protestors and union members are fighting legislation that would do just that – give power to the people to make their own choices.  It’s clear that none of these “learned scholars” (including an organizer who is a professor at Purdue) have studied how ineffective socialized societies have been over the course of mankind.  It’s a travesty of the very laws and tenants that founded our country to see elected officials standing on the steps of a state capitol building supporting the values of the Occupy movement.  Those officials should be removed from power for treason against the Republic.

Looking over the list of “needs” on the Occupy Des Moines website, I would ask the organizers one question if I could:  “How do you think those items came to be manufactured if corporations are so bad?”  It is sheer hypocrisy that these protestors are seeking good manufactured by corporations for their “comfort” and “basic needs” when those very corporations would not exist in the Occupy movement’s sad vision of utopia.

Finally, one thing that Jesus Christ has taught us is that we should always turn the other cheek.  But to defile one of the Christian faith’s most holy symbols by one of the most base human functions (in fact, there is probably only one other way that it could have been worse), and to steal another is just about as low as these people can go.  Turning the other cheek is good as far as it goes, but at some point, there is a limit, and these people found it.

Any attempts to classify the Occupy protestors as anything like the Tea Party Movement is totally off base.  The only similarity is that it’s a grass-roots movement.  Past that, Occupy protestors are selfish, ignorant people who either cannot or will not think for themselves and become productive members of society.  My challenge is still out there – anyone who is an Occupy sympathizer is welcome and encouraged to refute me, and I will even give them space to do so right here on Right of Middle.

Got the balls to do so?

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