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| taking Jesus at his word on the steps of St Paul's |
THE CORPORATION of London,
the Bishop of London and St Paul’s
cathedral staff last Tuesday dropped plans to take legal action to force
anti-capitalist protesters from their encampment in the cathedral’s churchyard.
And on Wednesday
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams issued a statement calling for a
“Robin Hood” tax on financial market dealings as a way of redressing the
extreme greed displayed by City bankers while the rest of the country endures
serious hardship resulting from the bankers’ actions.
Dr Williams said he
hoped this would meet the demands of the protesters and that it was not
necessary to end the whole capitalist system.
The statement was
fairly obviously designed to persuade the protesters to go voluntarily whole
avoiding the embarrassment of a forced eviction of people who are upholding the
teachings the Church of England on Mammon worship and the lover of money as the
root of all evil.
Meanwhile the City of
London Corporation said it had merely "pressed the pause button" on
its legal bid to evict the protesters.
Clearly, if they
don’t go willingly the iron fist is still there inside the velvet glove.
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