Originally posted by Darkrunner
Funny. When the cameras would pick some idiot hanger on out of the Tea Party protests, it was presented as evidence. "See! See! They're all rambling racists, homophobes, blah blah blah."

Now that the shoe is on the other foot we hear "Well, he was on drugs, didn't get enough sleep blah blah blah."

Love the double standard.

Well you could just as easily say it's hypocritical that the OP, neo, constantly defends the Tea Party when people scrutinize specific members of it (which I agree with, the entire tea party isn't where people should be wagging their throbbing fingers), but then he turns around and mass generalizes over 20,000 attendees based on one farcical youtube video?

No double standard there, right?

I wonder what the OP would say if I posted a video of Tea Partiers calling Obama racial slurs.

"YOU F'N LIBERAL! THIS VIDEO IS BIAS AND DOESN'T REPRESENT THE TEA PARTY!"

Yep.

Originally posted by ForeverDusk
You do realize, of course, that the media always singles out that one moron in the crowd to interview and then tries to paint the movement as consisting entirely of those kind of people.

You know what would help your argument here....post a video of one of the "intelligent" protestors to counter all the idiot videos we are seeing.

I have asked this many time...and I never get someone to post a video of someone who knows what the hell they are talking about.

All we see are all these morons in these videos...sure, you can't judge a whole protest off one video...but after every single video you see is of morons not knowing what they are talking about...you can start to get an idea of average protestor at OWS....and it's not good.

I usually don't participate in the political forum because there's typically more focus on the personalities than there is a specific topic. So I have to wonder what's the point of this thread? Is there actually a message? The only message I can see is an antagonistic five paragraph ad hominem attack against one of the protestors.

Quotes like,

"... might want ot see a pychiastrist in my opinion. "

"Pinhead or Patriot ..."

So why is this thread even allowed to stay alive on ATS? If the whole thread topic is to rail on someone. How can the debate rise above the tone of the OP? As far as I'm concerned all threads berating people should be instantly thrown in the junk bin ‒ starting here.

Originally posted by Xtraeme
I usually don't participate in the political forum because there's typically more focus on the personalities than there is a specific topic. So I have to wonder what's the point of this thread? Is there actually a message? The only message I can see is an antagonistic five paragraph ad hominem attack against one of the protestors.

Quotes like,

"... might want ot see a pychiastrist in my opinion. "

"Pinhead or Patriot ..."

So why is this thread even allowed to stay alive on ATS? If the whole thread topic is to rail on someone. How can the debate rise above the tone of the OP? As far as I'm concerned all threads berating people should be instantly thrown in the junk bin ‒ starting here.

edit on 15-10-2011 by Xtraeme because: (no reason given)

Agree completely. Report it to staff. The more of us that do the better the chance of getting it removed.

This thread is a typical attack against the OWS protestors. There are a lot of people that just love to troll their political agendas here.

I think for the most part, the members here on ATS want the people of this country and the world to wake up and take notice of corporations influencing our government officials and how our constitutional rights are slowly being trampled upon. These protestors are not sitting behind a computer and complaining about things that are wrong in society. They're actually getting off their butts and doing something about it.

So as an ATS member criticizing people who are making their voices heard, it seems quite hypocritical. For every conservative and tea party protest, I could go around and find the same kind of unstable or poorly informed individuals. This type of video has been done by both liberals and conservatives.

If we're going to get past the bickering and the finger pointing in this country, the OP needs to stop spreading his political conservative ideology. Both political sides have their good points and bad. People need to recognize this and try to compliment and accept the good points of each party.

Say what you want about this guys breakdown, but all I have to say is what are you doing to help change our society for the better. He's at least standing in the rain and cold and trying to make a difference.

This thread is being closed for both a staff review and to allow everyone a chance to cool off.