Ken Berwitz

When when someone tells me how similar the "Occupy" movement is to the Tea Party movement, I'm never sure whether to laugh or just shake my head in amazement.

Yes, they are similar on a few issues - most notably that financial institutions are too powerful and that they should not be bailed out with taxpayer money.  Then what?  Where are the other similarities?  Show me a few, because I can't find them. 

The Tea Party movement is pro USA, supports capitalism, demands that people be taxed less, and, based on how they have behaved at gatherings and how they have left the areas where such gatherings took place, very respectful of other people's rights.

By contrast, the "Occupy" movement is loaded to the gills with anti USA, anti-capitalism people who demand that they be given more by the taxpayers, and based on how they have squatted in public areas against the law and behaved themselves at gatherings such as the one I am about to report, they could not give a damn about anyone else's rights

(This, of course, is before we get to the many freeloaders among them who are only there for the "stuff" they get without paying for it, and the outright anarchists).

There are countless examples of how ugly the behavior of "Occupy" protesters is.  Oakland is an excellent example - one which has largely been brought on by jean quan, its hapless, helplesss, hopeless "Occupy"-supporting Mayor, whose incompetence and misfeasance has resulted in what is happening on the city's streets today. 

But Oakland is far from the only example.

Here is another one of the latest, excerpted from an article in lifenews.com (not from mainstream media, which continue to do what they can to prop up what is left of this "movement":

PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.

 

About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday. 

 

The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.”

 

That’s when they “started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school.”

They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.

 

Bracy, who finished only a quarter of his keynote address before being drowned out by chants and catcalls, said the Occupiers – who carried a large sign reading “Occupy Providence” and wore distinguishing arm bands – physically bumped several people. “They’re touching you. They’re swarming you,” he said.

 

The Providence chapter openly planned its actions on its Facebook page, Bracy said.

 

Bracy said he was disappointed when he tried to ask a man from the national Occupy Wall Street movement, who identified himself as “Dallas,” what opposing the right to life had to do with economics. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/why-does-occupy-wall-st.-support-big-abortion “You can’t have a reasoned conversation with these people,” he said, “They simply try to taunt you. They’re smug, snarky, arrogant. You won’t get a straight answer.”

 

Dallas told Bracy he was on a 13-city national tour to teach Saul Alinsky tactics to local organizers.

What else do you need to know about this pathetic bunch of sorosean radical leftists?

And what else do you need to know about media, once you realize that unless it is buried so obscurely that I could not find it (which is pretty damning in and of itself), today's Providence Journal has no account at all of this incident on its web page?

Tell me:  If this were a Muslim group, and a bunch of anti-Muslim antagonists disrupted an Imam's speech, drowning him out and forcing him to stop a quarter of the way through, do you think it would have been reported? 

The moral of this story is that, based on the reporting in today's media, it is ok to crap on people and trample their rights --- as long as they are the people you don't like.

Shame on the Providence Journal.  I would also say shame on the "Occupy" protesters for being intolerant bullies, but it would be a waste of time.  How can you expect shame from people who don't seem to have any?