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Be great if we programmed a network of computer bots to buy up ALL the tickets.

I think its a douchey thing to do. All it does is help reinforce Christians in their preposterous claim that “they are the opressed ones” and that there is a radical atheist agenda that controls everything. There are better ways to protest and even better ways to sabotage the plans of ideological nutcases without the doucheyness.

I often run in the Phoenix Park and enjoy its many amenities. If, as a tax paying citizen I am not permitted to run there on the day of the visit by Jorge Bergoglio, even though I am being forced to fund his visit by my taxes, would it be a “legitimate” form of protest? If I book tickets and don’t go because I have met with (and wept with) so many…[Read more]

I think it would be unfair of you to do it, and it’s not a legitimate form of protest.

Do you think it wrong of me to book tickets but not use them as it will deny some Catholics the chance to attend the meeting or would I be justified in destroying the tickets?