National Post, February 2013 – OCAP threatens to take over Metro Hall if city does not address shelter bed ‘crisis’
Sun News, December 2012 – The Menzoid took to the streets of Toronto to give a some free meals to the homeless, but found they were much pickier than expected.
h/t Dan T
The poverty pimps toil on. Maybe these Morontarios should get together with the pimps in Chinacouver,and plan a meeting,for Ellsmere Island.The pollie bears need help too,ya know.
As expected, the NP report, as with the rest of the Media Party, does not include background on OCAP and their penchant for violent behavior when they don’t get their way, such as showing up to battle police with 2-by-4s, hurling bricks, and throwing marbles in the path of police horses to trip them up. No, they’re protesting against the Ford administration. They must be cast in the best light possible. Now, should they show up to protest against Ontario’s new Liberal gay premier and her gov’t, then the Media Party will have to put OCAP in its place. Background info will be trotted out to discredit them.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
John Clarke, of OCAP is an embarrassment to all ex-brits. Professional unemployed shit disturber for 30 years, wouldn’t know work if he tripped on it.
It used to be “if wishes were fishes, beggars would feast”. Now it’s “if wishes were fishes, beggars would complain about having to seafood all the time”.
If I may, at a relative’s church, fresh produce (locally grown potatoes and carrots) was handed out to needy people. There was nothing wrong with that produce at all. Nevertheless, it was rejected by the cellphone-owning “poor” who texted their friends to meet them at Tim Horton’s.
We live in a society where the poor are obese.
There are truly poor and disadvantaged people out there. They are being swallowed up by the picky jackholes who have an undeserved sense of entitlement.
I routinely go by a local church (on foot!) and see the gathering smokers outside waiting for their free lunch – all while leaning on their $800 mountain bikes. Our local government wanted to put a homeless shelter across from city hall on prime commercial real estate so the bums wouldn’t have to walk (or ride) too far for their free food. I sympathize with the Menzoid and his frustration.
My attitude can be summed up thus: I gave at the office.
What is it with all of these agitating ex-Brits?
‘Couldn’t get a hearing in England/Ireland, so they come over here and dump all of their grievances against the British class system on our doorstep. Syd Ryan’s a typical example, as is this asshat Clarke. Ironically, they live high off the hog on the backs of the grievance lackies they represent.
What a racket. What self-righteous, moralizing (sic) scumbags.
Every single one of the “homeless” are people with major psychological problems. I think Morontario should just opt itself out of the Supreme Court decision that allowed them out of the hospitals and start cleaning up the streets. Imagine how quickly the vagrancy problem would disappear if the consequence of begging on the street is a trip to the mental hospital and being shot up with drugs to keep you compliant.
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Feel free to spend your own money, then. Do not ask condo owners or farmers to donate, the will if they feel like it, if they don’t too bad.
Socialism is the religion of the stomach.
“Free meals” are also for the children of the “homeless”.
>>> “The stomach would be the prime cause and the end of humanity.”
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“Gustave Le Bon: The Psychology of Socialism: Book I Chapter 3 …
http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Lebon/LeBon_1899/LeBon_1899_03.html
The stomach would be the prime cause and the end of humanity. As a Marxist has maintained, Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.”
The Menzoid took to the streets of Toronto to give a some free meals to the homeless, but found they were much pickier than expected.
Not a surprise. When I had the misfortune of working in San Francisco (1999 – 2001), it was common for panhandlers to ask me for money for food. When I would volunteer to buy them, say, a bagel for breakfast in the coffee shop in the building where I worked, I was always turned down.
OCAP is the defacto communist/marxist destabilization function in Morontario. They constantly engage in quasi-legal street theater politik forwarding radical Marxist critical theory (condemning anything that is the product of a capitalist sysyem – including dropouts and bums). Obviously they make no distinction between drug abuse based povery and true poverty. They have little credibility as a political voice/force and it is unseemly the media would even trouble us by propagating their mendacious agendas – unless the media is aligned with their destabilization agenda.
As for real poverty, it is virtually non existant however, there are shocking trends that show the middle class and lower middle class are spiraling into insolvent austerity. Primary causation for this slide is taxation and spiraling energy/utility prices. We are seeing more people at the food bank and a lot more seniors/pensioners/fixed income families who are having to use the food bank because to stay in their home, it is a matter of going without food for a week or two or paying the electric/utility/tax bill. The system is non empathetic to seniors whose pensions do not cover expenses any more. If these people (pensioners, many just above the taxable income level)were exempt from taxation they could live in their homes and lead a modest retirement on the government pension they worked all their lives to pay into. But I don’t even hear a murmur out of Harper about tax reform for seniors/pensioners/fixed income – let alone greedy city bureaucrats giving seniors on pensions a break on property tax.
Big Government (of all political brands) has created a harsh future for older working-class seniors existing on meagre pension income. These folks have my sympathy, not some street freak who willing ble their productive years on a substance abuse lifestyle.
“Big Government (of all political brands) has created a harsh future for older working-class seniors existing on meagre pension income.”
I am sorry for the seniors of my parents’ generation, but the Baby Boomers asked for this, and they richly deserve it.
Please, long time habituated alcoholics have enough problems trying
to kill the pain and get yesterday’s buzz back by drinking the stuff
they can afford from panhandling without somebody foisting food on
them to make it more difficult.
First off they got the acronym wrong. It’s the Occupy Coalition Advocating Poverty.
When I see one of the young punky streeters approach me, I sometimes beat him to it and as HIM for money. Kate, my version of “I amuse myself”.
I remember a conference years ago in downtown Toronto. After lunch, there were trays of sandwiches left over. There were also a number of homeless people in the park across the street. A colleague and I decided to take the extra food down to them. I thought they might be grateful for the offer; they were not. Only about 3 or 4 of the dozen accepted the food.
Yes, it’s anecdotal evidence, but it’s been important in forming my opinion of how dire and desperate these people are, which is to say: not very.