>>>We never saw the kind of violence, filth and bad behavior that characterized the left during "Occupy Wall Street" at any Tea Party event.
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>In fairness, the concept of camping out in the local park in a good cause is more likely to attract opportunist but otherwise uninvolved undesirables than a Tea Party rally at the Town Hall. I suppose you could ask whether or how Occupy organizers can prevent troublemakers joining the throng and conducting mayhem behind a moral figleaf. Seems to me the real story was general restraint by authorities who seemed to prefer to wait it out than risking making a mistake coming down hard and fast on people in a camp in a public park.
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I realize you didn't mean it this way, but the general approach in that last sentence was basically tried in Baltimore MD over the last 36 hours, with (sadly) disastrous results. If two wrongs don't make a right (the rather likely odds of police misconduct and the resulting riots/fires/looting), then a third wrong out of guilt or for whatever reason (in this case, effectively letting the rioters get it out of their system) makes it even worse.