While there are some elements that should unite the two groups (i.e. distrust of the well connected well-to-do and their government toadies), there are other elements in which the difference could not be more clear. Jeff Jacoby tries to get some mileage out of the 10th Commandment, but the larger point is in the sadly growing catalog of vandalism, rape, assault, and continued threats of violence from the Occupy group.
Where the Tea Party folks left their gathering spots devoid of trash, the Occupy folks trash their gathering spots. Policy pretentions aside, the Occupy folks appear to value nothing beyond their own existence. Nothing matters to them unless it matters to them; narcissism in spades.
Of course, it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the barrel. Were it not for a complacent media that ignores the blatant lawlessness of those few bad apples and their prior zealous attempts to convert a few minor blemishes into a worm in every Tea Party apple, we might justly and quickly purge the public debate such destructive disinterest in the well being of anyone not "occupying" a tent located inside a major metropolitan park.
Only then can a serious discussion of the issues at hand commence.
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