Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
The TEA protestors recognized the cops were there to do their job and maintain order, and they followed the rules.
I'm frankly wondering what the OWIES are trying to accomplish here? They honestly sound a bit selfish. "The rest of you should pay for my college!"
Really?
Because that's kind of what it's devolved down to. Boo-hoo, I owe a lot in college loans and I'm not getting that $50,000 job on graduation.
Not building up a lot of sympathy from someone like myself, who paid for college with miltiary service and working minimum wage jobs.
Let's concede, TEA and OWS both are really upset about the same thing- how our economic and governmental system is broken. Both have valid complaints about what some of the problems are.
But honestly, making life difficult for everyone else by occupying parks and campuses for days?
the tea people were a) older; b) had sporadic rallies; and c) weren't attacked by police like the Occupy people were in Oakland and UC Davis. To be fair, the police then also weren't paid 4.6 million to protect corporate interests like the NYPD were either.
just saying.
They weren't attacked by the police because they violated no laws, caused no riots, seized no property, did not destroy private property, did not block traffic except when issued a permit to do so, followed the cops orders, etc etc. Any more ignorant statements you wanna make?
If the tea party was any kind of threat to the oligarchy then you can bet your ass there would have been riot cops out there.
the tea people were a) older; b) had sporadic rallies; and c) weren't attacked by police like the Occupy people were in Oakland and UC Davis. To be fair, the police then also weren't paid 4.6 million to protect corporate interests like the NYPD were either.
just saying.
They weren't attacked by the police because they violated no laws, caused no riots, seized no property, did not destroy private property, did not block traffic except when issued a permit to do so, followed the cops orders, etc etc. Any more ignorant statements you wanna make?
Yes they such good little citizens, so well behaved and compliant. They showed up to these rallies to find all this stuff already paid for and arranged by the lobbyists and none of them asked "who's paying for all this stuff?"
Do you think that a person should always comply with a police order no matter what? What if they came for your guns?
Yes. Would they want to? No. Pepper spraying a peaceful protester is wrong and that applies to all peaceful protesters. But if you're implying that Tea Partiers are somehow all cowards,i will just have to politely disagree and call Bullshot on your premise. Are you calling all Tea Partiers cowards? Please clarify.
I'm sure that some of the TEA party protestors would have preferred pepper spray over fist, feet, and protest signs to their faces and bodies delivered by SEIU thugs
jus sayin
Do you think that a person should always comply with a police order no matter what? What if they came for your guns?
You might want to actually make a comparison that was similar. Or keep making up Strawman arguments.
The criminals are the people who broke windows at a small private business on the streets of Oakland, CA a couple of weeks ago at an OWS mob riot, which was not supposed to happen. They're also those who do illegal drugs on the street, have sex in public on the street, and potty everywhere, particularly targeting police squad cars.i don't think Teapartiers would be criminals.
So I guess that's where your comparison kinda breaks down.
It is the authorities who decide who the criminals are. Mighty narrow in your outrage at the government. Are you a nationalist when the right people are getting roughed up?
I'm sure that some of the TEA party protestors would have preferred pepper spray over fist, feet, and protest signs to their faces and bodies delivered by SEIU thugs
jus sayin
i'm sure you'll be happy, horty, to provide credible documentation of that.
cause the only thing i saw happen to tea people was that they obstructed and interfered with town hall meetings of any representative they disagreed with... ranting and raving and shrieking.
I'm sure that some of the TEA party protestors would have preferred pepper spray over fist, feet, and protest signs to their faces and bodies delivered by SEIU thugs
jus sayin
i'm sure you'll be happy, horty, to provide credible documentation of that.
cause the only thing i saw happen to tea people was that they obstructed and interfered with town hall meetings of any representative they disagreed with... ranting and raving and shrieking.
for the cause? They like to talk big but they are telling the OWS protesters to meekly submit to state authority when the state arbitrarily decides their rights have run out. All those who say they would never submit if the government trampled their rights need to look at OWS to see what that looks like.
Yes.Do you think that a person should always comply with a police order no matter what? What if they came for your guns?
I'm sure that some of the TEA party protestors would have preferred pepper spray over fist, feet, and protest signs to their faces and bodies delivered by SEIU thugs
jus sayin
i'm sure you'll be happy, horty, to provide credible documentation of that.
cause the only thing i saw happen to tea people was that they obstructed and interfered with town hall meetings of any representative they disagreed with... ranting and raving and shrieking.
You have a point (if I understand it correctly) - when I was watching the video, besides the outrage I was surprised (but not a lot) that the others did not jump on those cops, but it's easy for me to say, but I think they really should start bringing guns to the movement for situations like this.for the cause? They like to talk big but they are telling the OWS protesters to meekly submit to state authority when the state arbitrarily decides their rights have run out. All those who say they would never submit if the government trampled their rights need to look at OWS to see what that looks like.
You have a point (if I understand it correctly) - when I was watching the video, besides the outrage I was surprised (but not a lot) that the others did not jump on those cops, but it's easy for me to say, but I think they really should start bringing guns to the movement for situations like this.for the cause? They like to talk big but they are telling the OWS protesters to meekly submit to state authority when the state arbitrarily decides their rights have run out. All those who say they would never submit if the government trampled their rights need to look at OWS to see what that looks like.
However, I also noticed that the gun totters also are not nearly as tough when it came to defend their neighbors from banks/police reposessing their homes. most were out in Iraq partying (or liberating something, whatever)
America has forgotten what anti establishment protests look like. The tea party was nothing but an anti Obama fest, nothing to do with anti government, they cannot wait to get their hands on the levers of power again, to become nationalists again. Real protests are inconvenient and costly for those who hold the reigns of power, if it does not provoke a negative response from those who you are protesting then it is nothing.
You have a point (if I understand it correctly) - when I was watching the video, besides the outrage I was surprised (but not a lot) that the others did not jump on those cops, but it's easy for me to say, but I think they really should start bringing guns to the movement for situations like this.for the cause? They like to talk big but they are telling the OWS protesters to meekly submit to state authority when the state arbitrarily decides their rights have run out. All those who say they would never submit if the government trampled their rights need to look at OWS to see what that looks like.
However, I also noticed that the gun totters also are not nearly as tough when it came to defend their neighbors from banks/police reposessing their homes. most were out in Iraq partying (or liberating something, whatever)
