PHOENIX, November 17, 2011—Last month, when the Occupy Wall Street protests began, President Obama compared them to the Tea Party protests, saying, "I understand the frustrations that are being expressed in those protests. In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party, both on the left and the right.”
Was he serious?
Obama made sense only if you get all your news from MSNBC or CNN, where they sanitize their reports of the various Occupy movements. To compare what is happening at Zuccotti Park and the other Occupy venues to the Tea Party protests is insane.
The drug abuse, rapes, assaults, and arrests that have occurred at the Occupy encampments are completely alien to the tone and spirit of Tea Party events.
Consider some of the vile signs at an Occupy protest: "Kill your parents,” “Eat the rich,” and “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” The most violent sentiments you'll find on signs at a Tea Party rally are along the lines of, “Cut the size of government, not our wallet.”
They do a lot of hand-wringing at MSNBC about the violence of the right, but not only are Tea Party events free from assault and other violent crimes, participants never carry signs suggesting that you kill your parents or anyone else.
The Tea Party has had a clear, unifying objective: Cut spending, eliminate big government, and return to a constitutional republic that our founding fathers intended for.
The objectives of Occupy Wall Street are muddled, but so far as they have one, it is to transform the United States into an anti-capitalist, anti-corporate nation.
In a word, socialism.
In spite of this, the real contrast between the Occupy and the Tea Party movements isn't ideology, but behavior. Decent people can disagree about the relative merits of socialism and capitalism, but the Occupy movement has more of the character of a mob, and mobs are violent. The sexual assaults and other violent crimes that have occurred at Occupy encampments clearly distinguish the difference in character between the two movements.
The first report of sexual abuse at an Occupy event was on October 18, when a Seattle man was arrested for indecent exposure to children at least five times. This man was taking part in the Occupy Seattle protest.
Another report of rape happened on November 2, when police arrested an Occupy Wall Street participant for raping two women, one of whom was a minor.
On that same day, police officers in Dallas arrested a man for sexually assaulting a 14 year-old girl at the Occupy Dallas encampment.
That certainly has happened at the Tea Party rallies, right? No. There hasn’t been a single report of rape at any Tea Party protest.
Unfortunately, these three reports only scratch the surface. There have been many more cases of rape and sexual assault at dozens of Occupy encampments.
Another damning element of the Occupy Wall Street movement is the drug abuse that takes place.
Just last week, three Occupy Boston protesters were arrested for selling crack cocaine. The problem is so severe that the Boston police have begun to embed undercover police officers into the camps to find and arrest drug dealers.
Drug use at the Tea Party protests has yet to be reported.
Occupy Wall Street protesters have begun defecating in banks, knocking police officers off their motorcycles, desecrating the American flag, hurling racial slurs at NYPD officers, vandalizing police cars, pushing old women down stair cases, and violently attacking police officers, and the list goes on.
The comparisons that the mainstream media and President Obama make between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement are absolutely detestable.
If you attend a Tea Party rally, you won’t see violence or rape. You will see peaceful expressions of frustrations with the federal government and Barack Obama.
Occupy Wall Street is just a cesspool of 60’s hippies, socialists, communists, and a bunch of confused college students.
Obama support of this movement will backfire on him in 2012. In fact, only 28% of voters support the OWS movement, according to a new WSJ/NBC News poll.
Alas, Occupy Wall Street doesn’t appear to be evaporating anytime soon. The rapes will likely and disgustingly continue, the selling and use of drugs will go on, and the socialists will continue their march against capitalism and America.
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