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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
"utterly no reason" ???
These 99% protests are to get a message out. To rile up voters. The Tea Party has spent a couple years attempting (and failing) to get where 99% has gotten in just a couple months.
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These protests don't have a message. They don't have any leadership. They don't have goals. Not once has their message been "get out and vote". And if that was their message, why do this now and not come election time?
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
If the Tea Party had been successful in organizing massive demonstrations, I suspect you wouldn't be talking down their actions.
If a big Tea Party protest required a police force and cleanup, that would be perfectly fine. Right?
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From your comments, I'm guessing you seem to think that I support the tea party. I don't. I don't support any movement or group; I'm apolitical. Frankly, your just choosing between the lesser of the two evils, and at the end of the day everyone is just blowing smoke up everyone's ass and then spinning the best they can after the fact.
Political parties have the right to meet. However, when the Democrats or the Republicans meet up in public, they do so in proper forums - where they have hired staff to clean up shit. Protesters have the right to protest, and I'm glad that they do. But they don't have the right to camp out in public parks over night, they don't have the right to crap in bushes, they don't have the right vandalize the park or write grafiti, and the city - by law - is required to clean up and ensure it's sanitary. And the city governments and their respective police forces are being very decent about all of this. But the local residents who live next to the park have rights too - they don't want to listen to war drums beating at 2am in the morning. When the city comes to the protesters and says "you need to leave so we can clean up", you fucking leave. Go home, come back in the morning.
Get your message. Great. By don't waste my tax dollars and destroy local parks in the process.