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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?
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?"