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Richard Aleman talks about his remarkable experiences at an Occupy Wall Street gathering that was ripe for the Chestertonian common sense of distributism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Particularly fascinating was the rabbi who urged Aleman, \u201cWhat you are doing is important. This is what we need. Keep doing what you are doing and continue to preach the Beatitudes of Jesus!\u201d<\/p>\n

Also interesting was Aleman\u2019s description of a crowd that was very far from the trendy nutbars who tend to dominate media coverage. Hey! Why not? Do the prolifers you know look like the idiots the media so carefully and selectively portrays?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"