Occupy Portland Mom Employs Child Endangerment to Make a Point
COMMENTARY | If further evidence was necessary to prove that the Occupy Wall Street people are batty insane one could do well to point to the example of the Occupy Portland woman who placed her four year old son on a railroad track to block the local port.
Hot Air's Howard Portnoy reports of the shenanigans Monday when an occupier mob blocked operations at the Port of Portland, in the process stopping a shipment of food to the needy for a Christmas dinner.
The most heinous occurrence was a mother who was clearly unfit to have children who placed her 4-year old-son on a railroad track among some other Occupy Portland protestors. He told a local reporter that she relied on her faith in humanity that a train engineer would not plow through a group of children.
Certainly no one who is a human being would deliberately run a train over a crowd of anyone, not to mention children. However the occupier mom was clearly taking a snooze during science class in school. Otherwise she would have been aware of this little thing called inertia. As Isaac Newton so eloquently put it, according to a website on his three laws of motion, "Any object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it."
How does this apply to a train barreling down on a four year old kid whose mom has placed him across the railroad track? This is very simple. The time between the moment the engineer sees the four year old kid and hits the brakes and the time the train would turn said kid into strawberry jam may be insufficient to stop the train.
Political zealots have been using their kids since politics began to make their points. But the line ought to be drawn at child endangerment. A mom who would put her child in front of a speeding train would likely do other things do endanger his life. One hopes that the local Child Protective Services in Portland have taken note and will soon pay this mom a visit. One also wonders what the kid's dad thinks of what happened. One hopes the reaction was angry and unprintable.
Sources: Occupy protester puts 4-year-old on train tracks to stop rail traffic, Howard Portnoy, Hot Air, Dec 15, 2011
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