This was my first ‘social justice” campaign, designed to stand up for the rights of Charlottesville, VA squirrels who were forcibly displaced by smelly leftists, who commandeered their natural habitat during the 2011 “Occupy” freak show.
Background
In mid-October 2011, radical leftists and revolutionary Marxists commandeered Robert E. Lee Park, in Charlottesville, VA, as part of the “Occupy” freak show, and turned it into an open-air toilet for weeks. The City government provided moral, legal and resource support for these lawbreakers, even though the mayor openly admitted, in a televised hearing, that if the “occupiers” were right-wingers, they would have been quickly ejected.
The occupiers were ultimately allowed to live on the site for six weeks, even though things got so unruly that the organizers began requesting donations of “rape whisles” (sic; because after all, who could have possibly foreseen that enabling middle/upper class teenage girls to sleep in tents with homeless men decades older than them might present a problem?).
My response: “Squirrels For Justice”
In response, I created “Squirrels For Justice”:
Specifically, I was driven by two things:
(1) A desire to respond to the fact that the City of Charlottesville was allowing Occupy freaks to completely dominate the squirrels’ indigenous homes, in Robert E. Lee Park (note: leftists had never complained about the Lee statue until 2016).
(2) Having watched how successfully leftists and Islamists were able to falsely claim that Jews had displaced the “indigenous people” of “Palestine” (actually the Jews’ ancestral homeland), and were thus “illegally occupying” the land, I decided to create something that would apply Rule 4 in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” to this situation: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
And thus, I began gestating the idea for “Squirrels For Justice.”
As described on the About page:
“Squirrels4Justice is a new advocacy group that has been organized to stand up for us helpless squirrels, against those who are occupying one of our primary natural habitats: America’s public parks.
“Starting in September 2011, throngs of dirty, smelly, vile, trash-talking, America-hating, Marx-worshipping squatters (‘Occupiers’) have been invading and occupying America’s public parks, which is where we squirrels make our homes.
“The Occupiers don’t seek to ‘co-exist’ with us, like so many of their bumper stickers claim is their mission. They settle for nothing less than our complete expulsion from the habitats we’ve occupied for our entire lives. And where can we go, except into the streets, roadways and highways that surround our habitats?”
Also, here is an excerpt from “Occupation” leading squirrels to fight for available space”:
“As the ‘occupation’ of squirrels’ homelands by Marxist squatters continues across America, these normally peaceful animals are being driven to fighting amongst themselves for limited nesting resources and locations.
“You want a piece of me? Come and get it!” said ‘Arthur,’ a squirrel-teacher in Charlottesville, VA (above left), to his nephew, ‘Chester.’
“Arthur squeezed his family into a tiny nest in a tree that stands in tiny Lee Park in Charlottesville, VA. All the squirrels’ other nests there have either been destroyed, or despoiled by the “Occupy Charlottesville” hordes and their associated human waste, alcohol spills and fires. During a near-freezing night recently, Chester tried to squeeze himself into the nest – but in the process, caused one of Arthur’s children to fall out, and land atop the smoldering remains of an ‘Occupier’s’ clove cigarette.”
More:
S4J responds to Occupy Charlottesville’s “People Of Color Statement”
Finally, after six weeks of smelly occupation, the leftists were ejected
As more sane, law-abiding Charlottesville residents became aware of Squirrels For Justice, it began showing up in numerous social media and live forums.
As I understand it, Squirrels For Justice’s mini-virality helped to finally push the City Council to eject the Occupy freak show. And given what was happening, there wasn’t a moment to lose. From Occupiers threaten to “rise again”; squirrels now arming themselves:
“’Do you think I want to have to go around carrying an AK-47 and this ammo belt?,’ said ‘Angus,’ a five-year-old former agriculture student. ‘I have a family to feed, and we squirrels are normally peaceful, sweet creatures, who only want to get along with our fellow Earth dwellers.
“But if the filthy, obnoxious Marxists who comprise Occupy Charlottesville think that they are once again going to force us out of our homes and into the streets, to be crushed under the wheels of cars and buses as we try to find new homes, they’re nuttier than the nuts we squirrels store for winter. Fair warning – they drew first blood, but this is Virginia, this is a real AK, and I know how to use it.”
Also see my second “social justice” campaign, which I created five years later, to help stand up for the rights of dead American voters: