I’ve become a cynic about some of this stuff and a believer that we the people of the USA are easily manipulated like puppets on a string. Wasn’t the original basis for the Tea Party, as well as these protests, about the power and actions of the Federal Reserve, and how they keep us in the dark while giving our money away to their cronies at home and abroad?
When one has the money and power of the Federal Reserve behind them, I have no doubt that they can create their own versions of reality, and public opinion that can turn Mother Teresa into the Genghis Khan.
You don’t think it is possible to buy outlaw protesters who will do illegal and outlandish stuff thus turning off public opinion? The only thing I’m sure of in today’s PR world is that reality and public opinion have become a manipulable science and can represent either truth or fiction. Just because paid pundits or politicians or Parties say something I don’t automatically agree.
Umm, some of that was part of what the Tea Party was railing about. The occutards? Not so much. Occupywallstreet has NOTHING whatsoever in common with the Tea Party. The Tea Party is about LESS government, less spending, more rights for the states to determine their own paths. Occupy represents the complete opposite. Occupy represents MORE government, MORE taxation, MORE regulation, MORE federal government intrusion. There is simply no real similarities between the two. The Tea Party managed to demonstrate peacefully, legally, without making everything they touched a festering trash heap - AND managed real political accomplishments. Occupywallstreet is about nothing more than changing the subject. Hussein, the Democrats and left in general DO NOT want to talk about debt or government failure. They know if that is the debate in 2012 they will lose. In comes the occutards to change the debate.
You do not have a right to live in parks. That is not part of your right to assembly and speech. The occutards are nothing but aging hippies, deluded hipsters and assorted leftist agitators looking to change the subject from debt to income disparity. There is no constitutional right to turn a public park into a cesspool and call it a protest. When that becomes a right, please let me know. I will go build a vacation home on some beachfront park of my choice and call it a occupod.