One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Apparently the mainstream press never learned the basics taught by this Sesame Street song: the classifying and sorting of things by their likes and differences.  The reason I say this is because I have heard them comment over and over again that the Occupy Wall Street protests are just like The Tea Party.  The President has even compared the OWS to the Tea Party.  This is just absurd! 

Wall Street Journal writer Peggy Noonan says it best:

[Referring to OWS] "It is not a tea party.  The tea party was a middle-class uprising that was only too happy to funnel its energy into the democratic process.  They took their central concerns--spending, taxes and regulation--and followed the prescription of Joe Hill: Don't mourn, organize.  They did.  They entered politics and helped win elections."
     "Occupy Wall Street is completely different.  They mean to gain power and sway by going outside the political system.  They are a critique of the political system.  They went to the streets and stayed there.
     They are not funneling their energy into the democratic process because there is no market for what they are selling:  Capitalism should be overturned, I am angry that my college loan bills are so big, the government is bad, and the answer is more government.  You can't win elections in America with that kind of message.  So they will stay in the streets, where they can have an impact by stopping traffic, inconveniencing people going to and coming from work, and appearing to be an amorphous force that must be bowed to.
     The difference between the occupiers and the tea party is the difference between acting out and taking part."       [Emphasis added is mine.]

A list of characteristics of the Tea Party group could also include polite, respectful, clean, and non-violent.  Perhaps some of those adjectives did come to mind, early on, with the OWS group.  But now that we are one month into it, it is the opposites of those words that greet us everyday in the headlines.

So, the next time you hear these two groups mentioned in the same sentence, understand that the speaker has not mastered a fundamental early childhood education concept, but is accomplished in the art of misdirection and deception.

Next Up: Occupy Prison

The hard-working, honest, law-abiding people of the U.S. need to realize that the Occupy WallStreet protest that has spread to other major cities, is in fact an attempt at a Marxist Revolution.  It is a legitimate threat to our country; it is serious.

It is unorganized, and yet it is organized.  If America can start to see it for what it actually is, then we can deal with it appropriately.  These are some of the things we are up against:

1.) Paid protestors, compliments of the SEIU, The Tides Foundation, and Open Society;
2.) Brain-washed people who are busy protesting day after day; Do they not have jobs?  Who is giving them paid leave to be protesting??????  (See #1 above)
3.) Our President gives his nod of approval to these people!
4.) And don't forget the endorsement and support of these two groups:
      -The American Nazi Party  (I'm ashamed to even think there is an American Nazi Party.....); 
      -Communist Party USA also supports OWS - surprise--surprise.

I hope and pray that our wonderful country can weather this outburst of lawlessness and that the protesters nationwide can enjoy Occupy Prison with the same non-violent enthusiasm.

P.S.
One final thought: 
Also, please note:  To any protester claiming to "represent America" or claiming to be "the 99%"
you do not represent me and you certainly do not represent America or Americans, and you are not anywhere close to being 99%.  Oh, and by the way, could the media PLEASE stop putting microphones into these people's faces, letting them blather on and on spreading their crazed thoughts and propaganda?  But then again, letting them speak may reveal to the rational listening public just exactly who these protesters are....