>>>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.

And, of course, people camping out in a public park for days or weeks are more likely to leave trash, have to deal with human waste, and cause damage (even inadvertently) than people coming together to rally for a few hours.

Tamar