The conservative Tea Party movement is famous for not leaving behind as much as a stray piece of paper after its rallies. The ones I’ve attended in Rockford, including the big one in Davis Park with about 1,000 people, were like that. When they were over, the attendees picked up any trash lying around and disposed of it in bins or took it home.
Contrast that with the leftwing Occupy movement, where demonstrators who lived in parks in major cities for two months are now being rousted by police departments on the orders of liberal Democratic mayors who got fed up with their nuisance activities.
(New York’s Mike Bloomberg is a liberal, but ran as a Republican).
The “occupiers” have left giant messes in their wakes, as typified by the 30 tons of trash they abandoned at their site near Los Angeles City Hall. Taxpayers have to pay for its removal, of course. The Los Angeles Times explains.
If the Occupy movement wants to have staying power, it should become a political force, as the Tea Party did. Right now, big city mayors see the occupiers as a public nuisance who are getting in the way of the 99 percent of residents trying to go about their daily lives.
If Occupiers decidded to have large, Saturday marches and rallies — and picked up their trash — the 99 percent would be favorably impressed with them, providing they developed a cohesive message and a plan of political action. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be happening. These folks have absolutely no idea of how marketing works. It’s not just a right wing concept. Heck, Lenin knew marketing. He bamboozled a continent full of people to embrace Bolshevism.
The Tea Party’s trash is the things they say.
shawnnews nailed it!
So it’s OK to leave behind 30 tons of the trash for the taxpayers to pay to have hauled away? Sheesh. At least speech doesn’t require overtime at Public Works.
Actually, it’s not OK at all. Any progress the Occupy movement makes for their agenda will be slowed by their behavior.
Just remember: Those expenses don’t include the costs for police overtime, the lost wages of employees blocked from going to work, and the businesses who lost customers, and/or had to repair damages, because of OWS actions.
shawnnews, rather than a quick ridiculing retort, what part of the tea party message do you disagree with? A Constitutionally limited government? Fiscal responsibility? What?
You realize they were against the bank and auto industry bailouts before anyone else was paying attention. They championed the cause that government should not be picking winners and losers in our economy. They raised awareness of the very real debt and deficit problems now eating away at Europe.
You must by now realize that the whole “racist” meme was developed by those who just wanted the Tea Party to shut up and go away. Luckily, they stood up to the Alinsky tactic of ridicule and kept to their message.
It’s always the same. I have been to huge Tea Party’s and you can’t even find a paper cup on the ground after it’s over. On the other hand the parasite, narcissistic, everyone should take of me occupoopers leave trash, urine and worse everywhere they occupoop. Their old 1960′s useful idiot’s supporters are programmed by the cloned red journalist on the alphabet hate America scripted propaganda outlets.