OWS protester demands free capitalist hamburger from McDonald's

From here:

An Occupy Wall Street protestor was arrested early Friday after a violent rampage at a McDonald’s that refused to offer him free food.

The NYPD says it happened at about 2:45 a.m. at a McDonald’s near the make-shift tent city in Zuccotti Park.

The man, who had not been identified, went into the world’s largest restaurant chain and demanded free food, apparently craving a burger over the gourmet food being served in the park.

The people behind the counter, who are working instead of protesting, were not about to offer the man free food.

The protester then turned violent, even breaking a machine inside of the store before police arrived and arrested the 27-year-old.

As we all know, McDonald’s is a place where the unspoken anxieties of society can often find a voice; it is a stage on which to conduct by proxy the arguments that society itself does not know how to handle.  The urgent larger issues raised by those demanding free hamburgers remain very much on the table and we need – as fast food consumers and as society as a whole – to work to make sure that they are properly addressed.

The eviction of one hamburger-crazed anti-capitalist activist has constituted violence in the name of the purveyors of grease-laden unhealthy food the world over.

But at least it has triggered awareness of the need to advance the moral agenda of redistributing artery clogging fat to those who aren’t getting their fair share.

h/t mcj

6 thoughts on “OWS protester demands free capitalist hamburger from McDonald's

  1. Gawk, unless you are completely out of step with virtually all of the Canadians around you (and maybe you are), I can pretty much guarantee that, in the eyes of many of my American friends, you are a socialist.

  2. Warren,
    If your American friends would think that Gawk is a socialist, they must think you are a raving left-wing loon.

    • You’re not far off the mark. Actually, some would probably use the term communist. But since I’m harmless to them, they enjoy having me around. They’d consider you a socialist too. The gentleman who wrote this book is a former work colleague who I consider a friend. We had many “interesting” conversations. 😉

  3. I would strongly recommend reading the National Geographic article “The End of Plenty”. It is a bit of an eye opener. Now that the human population of the world is 7 billion I sometimes wonder just how are we going to produce enough food, never mind distribute it.

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