Thank you Mr. Brandon Loran Maxwell, another nobody with a blog and an opinion that gets linked because somebody can't express their own opinion.
I wasn't aware that the Tea Party was in need of vindication but apparently Mr. Maxwell was. The way he portrayed the OWS crowd he could compare them to Nazi Germany and make Hitler look like a Boy Scout. Now there's some heavy duty vindication.
If one wanted to make an unbiased, meaningful and interesting comparison some parallels could be drawn between the Occupy Wall Street movement and
The Boston Tea Party.
Both were planned protests involving civil disobedience. Both involved destruction of property. Both started out more or less with a single issue and morphed into a much broader dissatisfaction with government run a muck.
Mr. Maxwell writes:
But at least the right to bear arms and freedom of speech, unlike rape, vandalism, and drug usage -- all seen at Occupy Wall Street protests -- are protected under the U.S. Constitution.The right to bear arms and freedom of speech were not protected under the U.S. Constitution for participants in the Boston Tea Party because there was no U.S. Constitution at the time. I suspect these Colonists probably bore arms and did a lot of public speaking. It is a fact that vandalism was committed at the Boston Tea Party and there may have been some drug use and possible a rape.
One of these protests led to the birth of a new nation. It will be interesting to see what the other leads to.
