Tea Party v OWS

Matt Kibbe: Occupying vs. Tea Partying - WSJ.com

When tea partiers petition their government for a redress of such grievances, as more than one million did on Sept. 12, 2009, they don't get into fights, they don't get arrested, they say "excuse me" and "thank you," they wait in hopelessly long lines for porta-johns, they pick up their trash and leave public spaces and private property exactly as they found them. No one told myself or other tea partiers to do these things; we just believe that you shouldn't hurt other people and you shouldn't take their stuff.Enlarge ImageAssociated PressAn Occupy Wall Street associate in Rome addresses his grievances.
In contrast OWS, whose ranks represent a small fraction of total tea party protestors, has struggled to maintain civility or to even identify a unifying sense of purpose in their uprising. At Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, there is stealing, property damage and arrests often provoked by protestors wanting conflict with the police. Real people—not members of the so-called 1%—are being hurt as their small businesses are impacted and their property destroyed.