Soggy in NOLA
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Tea Party rallies never required riot police or hazmat crews to cleanup up the mess.
Most Tea Party protests are one shot deals, usually with the proper permits applied for. Alot of thier rallys are also in far more open areas, not in the downtowns of major cities.
There is a difference between a one shot protest march, and a continued occupation of a public space. At that point you are denying the rest of the public the use of said space.
Once the announcement has made that the officals want you to disperse, you have 3 options. Leave, get arrested, or fight back.
This is not suppression of opinion, thier opinions have been noted. Suppresion would require the PREVENTION of their opinions from being heard. Those protesters who want to keep pushing can try to re-occupy the public area, or move to another and continue on.
And they also got permits to be in the places they went to (many OWS protests have no permits) and did not violate the terms of the permits (of the few that did get permits many have violated the terms)
Is it really free speech if you need to get the governments permission to engage in it?
Hey, dumb shit, you don't need a permit to speak freely... you need a permit to gather en-masse and take to the streets thus disrupting the rest of society.
Do try and keep up.