Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

ItsTime said:
They being organizers and by what the article says it seems they are confronting them about a lot more than taking food.

I know there are all kinds of people there, but you can not say that the organizers creating a police force to intimidate a group of people is not hypocrisy.
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Are they ripping off the homeless people using a banking cartel and then telling them what to do using a police force, or are they giving out food that is supplied voluntarily and policing their own private property (the food) ??
 
dannno said:
Are they ripping off the homeless people using a banking cartel and then telling them what to do using a police force, or are they giving out food that is supplied voluntarily and policing their own private property (the food) ??
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Are they using force to intimidate them to leave?
 
dannno said:
Are they ripping off the homeless people using a banking cartel and then telling them what to do using a police force, or are they giving out food that is supplied voluntarily and policing their own private property (the food) ??
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Did you even read the article? They don't care about property rights either.

A team of 10 security volunteers moved in to the trouble-prone southwest section of Zuccotti Park in a show of force to confront them.

“We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said.

Some arguments broke out as the security team searched tents -- but no violence erupted.
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ItsTime said:
Did you even read the article? They don't care about property rights either.
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Wow, sounds like somebody jacked a bunch of food.

I agree they shouldn't search tents without the owner's permission.

OTOH, they should be able to look in someone's tent when they open it since they are in public, and they have to open their tent some time.
 
specsaregood said:
Really? In what way does this have ANYTHING to do with socialism? Was the food bought with tax money? Was it taken using govt force?
This is actually charity and voluntaryism.
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I tend to agree , but the money that paid for the food was probably taxed at an involuntary servitude kind of rate prior :)
 
So let me get this straight. They are not ok with giving away food, that was donated to them, to people that are hunger but they are ok with giving away money that was taken from people at gunpoint, called taxes? I guess I am not on their same moral plain.
 
klamath said:
So let me get this straight. They are not ok with giving away food, that was donated to them, to people that are hunger but they are ok with giving away money that was taken from people at gunpoint, called taxes? I guess I am not on their same moral plain.
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My thoughts as well ...
 
klamath said:
So let me get this straight. They are not ok with giving away food, that was donated to them, to people that are hunger but they are ok with giving away money that was taken from people at gunpoint, called taxes? I guess I am not on their same moral plain.
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Maybe they think that government has the ability to make some discerning judgements about who their socialist programs help, or, maybe some of those people aren't socialist.

At the OWS I have attended, the people giving away food are happy to give it to homeless people who have nothing to do with the movement because that is the main purpose of their program, to give away food to homeless, despite the fact that many of them are anarchists.
 
ItsTime said:
And yeah just about every single person at OWS here in New Hampshire was a socialist and/or communist. I have spit in my face to prove it ;) (spit from them yelling in my face about how evil Ron Paul is)
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Well that's pretty lame considering how many libertarians there are in that state.

Not representin'..
 
The cooks probably make up about 1% of OWS........ Guess they know what its like being the 1% expected to give your time, resources and be expected to do it for nothing.
 
It is half of Socialism.......the part where stuff is taken forcibly by the government is skipped and charity is substituted, but the part where stuff is taken is there and people are seeing what getting "free" stuff does to people. Give them a meal and they want a banquet!
 
Give a man a fish, and he comes back to get a fish again the next day, and the next day, and the one after that, and the next day.

Teach a man to fish and he leaves you the hell alone.
 
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
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You know for people that are living in tents out in the elements who need funds, maybe serving good quality foods wasn't the greatest idea in the first place. Spaghetti bolognese? I make this dish once in a while, even though I'm not anywhere near poor. It takes time to cook off the red wine, which is expensive if you're not trying to use shitty wine, and it's a very meaty sauce (which also costs money even though meat in pasta is not necessary). Organic chickens and organic vegetables? Are these people trying to feed a crowd or make food for a fundraiser?
 
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