It’s no surprise that the Unions mentioned got behind this, because these protestors started as being as spontaneous as the Tea party, but not even remotely as together as far as having a well thought out perspective. There’s a rather wide spectrum of people involved in this, not all of them on the Left, some nearly as apolitical as the early Tea party ranks. They seem easy pickin’s for organization and exploitation by Unions desperate for their own mini-Tea Party masses. Some of them are bound to fall away from the protests once they come to see this. It didn’t help the cause in the public eye that would-be exploiters like Michael Moore stopped by for support before the Unions.
But it DID help their cause when the pointlessly brutal handling by the NYPD was made visible for all to see on Youtube. Surrounding a group of women peacefully protesting (and they were)with a plastic fence “pen”, then spraying them directly in the face with Mace? Big tough guys. It was pathetic, and it made my blood boil.
Indeed, So much for the right to peacefull protest.
...”these protestors started as being as spontaneous as the Tea party, but not even remotely as together as far as having a well thought out perspective.”...
Could it be because the Tea Party’s perspective has previously been thought out by the founding fathers of this great nation?
Are you kidding? This and the riots/protests going on in Europe have been long planned by the revolutionary communist left. And it's nothing new. These are the same SOBs that are behind the so-called "peace" movement. I put 'peace' in quotes because the organizers are not really for "peace". They are just opposed to American military actions, especially those that are successful in defeating their Marxist and Islamo-fascists allies. If they were really anti-war they wouldn't worship mass murderers like Mao, Castro and 'Che'.