There are numerous reports of assaults against women at Occupy Whatever sites (OWS) across the country. This ought not to surprise given the collection of anarchists Communists vagrants and outright criminals who’ve gravitated to these places. But in Manhattan and Baltimore occupiers have apparently been preoccupied with trying to get the victims to keep their reports of these crimes internal rather than alerting law enforcement.
At the Baltimore OWS security committee guidelines stated that since “we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community … any member of the Occupy Baltimore community who believes he/she/they have been a victim of … abuse are encouraged to immediately report the incident to the Security Committee.” These guidelines by the way were written by a woman.
And in New York where numerous such crimes against women have been alleged an occupier told the New York Post “We don’t tell anyone … [w]e handle it internally. I said too much already.”
One party that might have been expected to take up the cause of these victims is the Forward newspaper. Why? Because that paper has been waging an unrelenting campaign against the Orthodox Jewish community for its supposed policy of dissuading victims of child abuse from reporting such crimes to the authorities preferring instead to “handle it internally.”
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