Jeff Jaccoby has a good writing at JWR regarding the Occupy movement, the Tea Party and the Tenth Amendment. He claims that but for the Occupiers flouting the Tenth Commandment, they would not act up so crazy.
How Crazy? Jacoby writes, At the Occupy Phoenix demonstrations, fliers encourage protesters to violently resist police officers, asserting that “you will usually have only two options: submit, or kill the cop.” At Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, an Occupy Wall Street protester was assaulted in her tent; according to the New York Post, a woman was raped at the same site a few weeks earlier. In Denver, “Occupy” activists turned on the police, screaming obscenities and knocking a motorcycle cop to the ground. Occupy Oakland grew even more violent, as police were pelted with bottles and rocks, and had M-80 firecrackers thrown at them. And in cities from Boston to Berkeley, Occupy encampments have coincided with surges in vandalism, assault, and theft.
Some individuals have strained to compare the Occupy Wall Street protests to the Tea Party movement. “They’re not that different,” President Obama told ABC’s Jake Tapper. “Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government.” The Daily Show’s host Jon Stewart argued: “Here’s a group of Americans, disenchanted, railing against big government bailouts? These
protesters, how are they not like the Tea Party?”
But the contrast between the Occupiers and the Tea Partiers could hardly be greater. Tea Party rallies haven’t turned public squares into squalid slums or incited protesters to curse the police. What the Occupy movement descended to in less than two months — the hundreds of arrests, the vandalism, the anti-Semitic rants, the all-night drumming, the public urination — is like nothing the American public saw in more than two years of Tea Party activism.
