Tea party group slams Occupy Wall Street; arrests grow

Uncle Sam | 402 hits | Oct 11 1:39 pm | Posted by: DanSC

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread—with massive arrests Monday night in Boston—the tea party wants you to know that the progressive protests have nothing in common with its own grass-roots effort.

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by DrCaleb
Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:53 pm
Free speech and free association are rights worthy of dying for, unless you disagree with the speech or associates.
by DrCaleb
Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:54 pm
Ok, well, they are worthy of sending young men to die for. Well, other people's young men, not yours.
by bootlegga
Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:45 pm
Yeah well, it's just like during the debt crisis - the Tea Party wanted to cut spending in programs - but only programs to which they are politically opposed.

They like to act like they are a better breed of politician, but in the end, they are just as hypocritical and greedy as all the others.
by xerxes
Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:06 pm
They're just upset because this is an actualy, grassroots protest. Unlike the Teabaggers who are just rebranded Republicans.
by peck420
Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:14 pm
You mean the grass roots protest in New York that now has Democrat support and Union bosses at the head?

Just asking for clarity.
by fifeboy
Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:48 pm
"DrCaleb" said
Ok, well, they are worthy of sending young men to die for. Well, other people's young men, not yours.

for this post and for the other one.
by fifeboy
Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:58 pm
"peck420" said
You mean the grass roots protest in New York that now has Democrat support and Union bosses at the head?

Just asking for clarity.

Ug, Union Bad!
by Thanos
Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:01 pm
Not surprising that the union movement (all 10% of the American workforce that it is nowadays) would support the side that isn't trying to exterminate them (i.e. not the TeaParty and Wall Street).
by commanderkai
Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:20 am
"xerxes" said
They're just upset because this is an actualy, grassroots protest. Unlike the Teabaggers who are just rebranded Republicans.

Wow, that was a good laugh, thank you.

Wait...you're not actually serious, are you?
by xerxes
Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:19 pm
Sure. Look at the Tea Party now. They've been completely co-opted by the GOP and made out to be some independent group when in reality, they simply parrot the same talking points that the GOP has been repeating for years.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of the TEa Party organisations are bankrolled by GOP fundraisers and PAC's.
by commanderkai
Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:44 pm
"xerxes" said
Sure. Look at the Tea Party now. They've been completely co-opted by the GOP and made out to be some independent group when in reality, they simply parrot the same talking points that the GOP has been repeating for years.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of the TEa Party organisations are bankrolled by GOP fundraisers and PAC's.

And this is any different from the Occupy Wall Street having the same slogans and bullshit from the last decade or so of leftist protests, let alone it's connections with leftist NGOs and unions?

I'm not sure how you can even try to claim that this Occupy *Insert something here* protests are somehow grassroots.
by peck420
Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:57 pm
They all start grass roots, but as soon as they get the spot light the attention whores (politicians) come running.

Has been happening since the birth of democracy, won't be changing anytime soon.
by Prof_Chomsky
Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:55 pm
Just because sympathetic organizations come to the side of true grassroots protests doesn't mean it taints any thing.

Here's hoping these protests grow until millions of people are crowding the downtown and someone finally listens to the electorate.
by scarecrowe
Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:12 pm
"Prof_Chomsky" said
... and someone finally listens to the electorate.

Does this "electorate" vote?