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Will real threats of violence at #OWS protests get same attention as imaginary threats at Tea Parties?

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Remember how when just one protester at a Tea Party rally hoists a sign with a comment that appears racist or a handful call out a mean-spirited epithet or one boor behaves rudely at a Republican debate, the media (and even leading Democrats) in the highest of dudgeon remind us of the racism, bigoted and hateful attitudes on the right, demanding that Republicans, “differentiate themselves” from such language lest it define them.

Heck, even an organizer of OccupyLA refused to say whether the “occupation movement” (at 3:20 in video linked) disavowed a protester’s anti-Semitic rant.  The violence that was supposedly an integral part of the Tea Parties appears to become increasingly manifest in the #OWS movement, with one protester threatening to stab a Fox reporter as a nervous police union warned “the Occupiers in Zuccotti Park that any assaults on police officers — or at least sergeants — will result in lawsuits.”

The police wouldn’t be issuing such warnings if they weren’t worried.  Now, you could saw that that threat isn’t legitimate as the police union is issuing the warning, but a flier at OccupyPhoenix asked, “When Should You Shoot A Cop?”  Alerting us to this flier, Ed Morrissey is

. . . curious to see how the media in Arizona and the rest of the nation approach this development.  They went into convulsions retroactive to the Gabrielle Giffords shooting that killed six other people because Sarah Palin used crosshairs on a map once (as had Democrats on a number of occasions), which the media used to paint the Tea Party and conservatives as somehow responsible for the massacre conducted by a madman with no discernibly rational political posture.  Will they hold the Occupy movement to the same ridiculous standard?  I’m betting …. no.

So the question of the day is, if Democrats fail, to borrow the expression of one of their number, to “differentiate themselves” from the violent threats at these rallies, does this mean they favor assaults on members of the press and law enforcement?  (Particularly when said Democrats have explicitly endorsed — or otherwise praised — the gatherings.)

Comments

  2. In some way this reminds me of what I have read about the political situations on university campuses in the late 1960s to early 70s.

    It appears that some of the protesters want to tear down organized society. So, what do they do to accomplish their goal? They decide to get organized!

  3. I went to the Occupy LA protests just to see what it was all about. (I am now formally involved with the Tea Party, so I am a bipartisan rabblerouser.) To be truthful, the Occupy people here in LA didn’t seem much like the hardcore radicals reported in other cities. A lot of them were borderline Ron Paul supporters. Most of them were good kids whose number one issue seemed to be college loans, unemployment, and tuition. I haven’t seen much to get upset over. Then again, I liked the Tea Party gatherings too. I guess I’m a political spectrum slut, able to find a good time wherever there are people who feel passionately about things. I think if y’all can back away from the report card system and trying to pit the Tea Party and Occupy against each other — even if it means forgiving the media double standard — something good might come of it. A lot of the Occupy LA people seemed willing to let go of their antiwar, pro-gay-marriage, and pro-choice rhetoric if it means building common ground over issues of crony capitalism, corrupt bailouts, corruption in the 2-party system, and educational reform. Check them out.

  4. We only have a dozen or so Occupy Houston people camped out downtown. I guess that says a lot about (a) Houston in general and (b) how good our police force is.

    Regards,
    Peter H.