Bishop, priest convicted of trespassing in Occupy demonstration

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/06/18/bishop-priest-convicted-of-trespassing-in-occupy-demonstration

[Episcopal News Service] A retired Episcopal bishop and a priest from the Episcopal Diocese of New York were among seven people convicted June 18 on charges of trespassing on property owned by Trinity Episcopal Church, Wall Street, during a Dec. 17 Occupy Wall Street demonstration and sentenced to four days of community service.

George Packard, former Episcopal bishop suffragan for armed services and federal ministries, and Earl Kooperkamp, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, had faced up to 90 days in prison on the most serious charge, Packard’s lawyer, Gideon Oliver, had previously told ENS.

An eighth defendant, Mark Adams, was convicted of trespassing and additional charges of attempted criminal mischief and attempted possession of burglar’s tools, reportedly for trying to use bolt-cutters to slice through the fence surrounding the property. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Rikers Island and taken from court in handcuffs, Oliver said in a telephone interview after the trial.

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One day before the action and these arrests:

Desmond Tutu urges Trinity Church to allow Occupy protester camp

South African archbishop enters row over Wall Street church's refusal to allow a winter encampment on its property

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/16/desmond-tutu-occupy-movement-trinity-church

[geek tragedy]

1. Trinity was a supporter of OWS until the latter

demanded--not requested--possession of Duarte Square.

Pure genius.

[sabrina 1]

3. Where do you get your information? Trinity is still a supporter of OWS.

This movement is pure genius as the results so far have shown. It is a Global Movement and is only going to grow no matter what the Banksters think, no matter how they try to stop it and no matter how many Breitbart types publish distorted and paid-for propaganda about it.

[dionysus]

6. results?

[sabrina 1]

7. ...

[hrmjustin]

2. I know George he is a great guy! Earl is great and his daughter just got ordained.

The rector of trinity is not a good guy so don't think is the people of trinity please.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Thank you for the insight. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

[freshwest]

5. Sad truths revealed at the link:

...Oliver said he was “disappointed more than surprised” that Judge Matthew Sciarrino convicted the eight defendants in the nonjury trial. “The legal system is set up to defend private property...”

“In some ways, the convictions make the moral arguments even stronger,” he added...

Trinity did not have to pursue the charges, but it opted to “protect fiduciary interests,” Packard told ENS. “It’s pretty sad. I mean,

this is what our church has come to. You don’t have enough pledging units to sustain many places. So we depend on the cash flow of corporate investment. It’s a caricature of what the gospel is.”

[Matthew66]

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