Monday 30 June 2014

What it feels like


 A few picketers showed up today, including their new "leader."  She approached a number of our members, trying to talk to them.  Some refused, others listened.

One thing this strike has succeeded in doing is bringing our community together, and we're all watching out for each other.  So when some of us were seeing picketers talking to members that have been targeted for abuse previously, we all just sort of gravitate over to check and see if they are all right and not being harassed.

What the new "leader" has been trying to do is convince us that this Canada Day invasion of our home that she planned, wasn't at all "nefarious" and that this was somehow supposed to be something we should like and appreciate.  Like they were doing us some sort of favour, or giving us a gift.

Either she's really dumb, or she thinks we're really dumb.  Did she really expect that she could book a big party, with an open invitation to anyone and everyone, to come to OUR HOME for some free Fat Fanks hot dogs, and we would actually LIKE this?  That we would WANT this?

One of our members tried to explain it to her by telling her that their doing something like this against our consent was basically rape.

She's right.

Time and again, AUPE picketers have gone after our members.  Even after being told "no" or "stop" or any number of variations to go away, they still keep coming.  They've tried the stick, with the previous "leader" and his ridiculously abusive behaviour.  Now, they seem to be trying the honey.

Whether it's the stick or the honey, the answer is the same.

No.

Stop.

This is our home.  Our private residences.

No means no.

Yet still they go after us. 

We feel like they are raping our entire community. 

This member tried to explain that to this new "leader."

She didn't get it.  Apparently, she still seemed to think we should somehow be grateful for what she was doing to us.

It reminds me of what the previous "leader" was heard to shout through his megaphone; that since we weren't giving in to their demands, we must like them being here.

Or, as the rapist claims, "she wanted it."


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