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October 08, 2011
Why 'Occupy Wall Street' Is No Tea Party Movement
Why 'Occupy Wall Street' Is No Tea Party Movement
I'm a Tea Party Activist and 'Occupy Wall Street' Is No Tea Party
By Deneen Borelli
In a recent Washington Post article, Occupy Wall Street protestors were called a diverse group with “no single leader and no organized agenda.
Just like the tea party movement.
Organizers are “drawing inspiration from the Arab Spring” and “hope the New York protests can plant the seeds of a permanent national movement.”
Just like Tea Party, activists draw inspiration from America’s Founding Fathers and fostered a national movement.
Wall Street protesters heeded the call from a web site called Adbusters just like tea party rallies sprung up after CNBC editor Rick Santelli called for action during a live report in February of 2009.
Wall Street’s occupiers want job creation and sometimes dress like zombies. Tea partiers want job creation and sometimes dress like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
If only the Tea Party could get such dispassionate and objective coverage.
One aspect of the Occupy Wall Street and other leftist activism that is a definitive divergence with the tea party movement is disruptive behavior.
On October 1, over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested — mostly for disorderly conduct — during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite two other peaceful marches across the bridge by other groups earlier that day, the Occupy Wall Street crowd couldn’t resist blocking traffic and scuffling with police.
When not under arrest (approximately 100 other arrests occurred over the weeks of the protest), the Occupy Wall Street crowd is actually occupying the privately-owned Zuccotti Park, whose owners are working with city officials on plans to return it “to its intended purpose.”
This rowdy attitude of the radical left is something that, by mistake or design, is grossly unreported in the media. As the Tea Party must fend off allegations of being violent and racist, leftist protests that are unruly don’t get similar coverage.
I’ve been active in the Tea Party movement since 2009. As a black woman, I define the movement’s political diversity and have always been quick to defend its inclusiveness against those who would try to slur it with racist accusations.
On October 1, over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested — mostly for disorderly conduct — during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite two other peaceful marches across the bridge by other groups earlier that day, the Occupy Wall Street crowd couldn’t resist blocking traffic and scuffling with police.
When not under arrest (approximately 100 other arrests occurred over the weeks of the protest), the Occupy Wall Street crowd is actually occupying the privately-owned Zuccotti Park, whose owners are working with city officials on plans to return it “to its intended purpose.”
This rowdy attitude of the radical left is something that, by mistake or design, is grossly unreported in the media. As the Tea Party must fend off allegations of being violent and racist, leftist protests that are unruly don’t get similar coverage.
I’ve been active in the Tea Party movement since 2009. As a black woman, I define the movement’s political diversity and have always been quick to defend its inclusiveness against those who would try to slur it with racist accusations.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Good write up and it is true how the many in the media have praised the left and attacked the Tea Party movement.
Posted by Wild Thing at October 8, 2011 05:50 AM
Comments
The parks owners claim they haven't been able to clean or maintain the park since mid-September when the protesters came. They say the park is in unsanitary conditions. That place has to stink to high heaven.
Posted by: BobF at October 8, 2011 07:21 AM
I guess each generation has to have their spoiled, childish, socialist, non productive, know it all revolutionaries. Some grow up to become the capitalists they riducle now. Others just drop by the wayside and disappear into homeless shelters or the haze of drug induced comas.
Posted by: TomR, armed in Texas at October 8, 2011 11:02 AM
Bob, oh wow, thanks for sharing that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 9, 2011 01:37 AM
Tom, your right, there have been hippies that when the got older changed big time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 9, 2011 01:41 AM
