Homeless? Shut up! This is an anti-poverty rally! And we mean business! (Oops—did we say that out loud?)
It seems yet another anti-poverty rally in downtown Vancouver once again helped define protesters and confirm suspicions we might have had about them (they keep doing that to themselves, don’t they?).
Amidst all the yelling and screaming of Marxist slogans and pro-NDP propaganda and other liberal-left jargon, an actual homeless man lined-up at the microphone for ages and wanted to speak.
Then someone was heard to have said, “Yeah, shut him down, as soon as he has something to say, shut him down.”
But the actual homeless man, who later didn’t want to reveal his name because apparently for him it wasn’t about being anti-everything and about name-recognition and power and influence and money and politics and the peace train and nipple-piercing and tattoos and protesting for the sake of protesting, said he appreciates it when people offer him food and blankets, but says many street people aren’t so grateful.
He said “I seen squeegee kids yell, and scream at people passing by. That’s embarrassing for a street person. I walk up to a person, I’m invisible to them because they don’t wanna deal with a street person. They’re ashamed of us or they’re afraid of us. They shouldn’t be afraid of us.”
He says even the homeless are targets, “They alienate the homeless, they terrorize the people sleeping in doorways, you know they steal from us.”
The actual homeless man wasn’t surprised he was stopped from speaking at the rally. He calls the organizers “bored kids” who want something to complain about, not legitimate street people.
No official word from any liberal-lefties, who of course REALLY know what’s what.
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