I'll bet every jack one of them voted for Obama.History shows left wing movements always end up becoming violent when they don't work.....or especially when they DO. So...the OWS is only the first phase of the global left wing movement, like Greece, France, England, etc, where violent riots have all resulted. Violence from the left has already been sprinkled about the past 4-5 years. But OWS has the potential to become a violent Greece-like movement and probably will.
Question is...when will this next step occur, and how will we react to it? "We" meaning America and law enforcement, not "we" right wingers.
I think if they were going to get violent they would have done so already. I think they're just a bunch of very confused college kids. They certainly don't know that TARP one bailouts--(banking have already been paid back with interest to the treasury.) IOW they're 3 years too late!
Obviously they don't understand that Wall Street is not their enemy--but it is the direct responsibility of the Federal Government that has crashed this economy.
IOW--they need a lot more political education as to what has happened to bring this economy to it's knees. They haven't been paying attention to anything over the last 3-4 years.
And back to the OP, yes once we start seeing them co opted by the unions then violence cannot be far away.