The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have been demonized as, essentially, a confused collective of scattered media-savvy hippies by conservative news coverage. Are they missing the important shared sentiments between the group and the Republican's treasured Tea Party movement? Or is the media intentionally ignoring the glaring similarities in the messages of the left wing youth-movement to "Protest for American Revolution" (quoted directly from their website) and the, though often misguided and convoluted, G.O.P.-based movement rooted in the ideals of the actual American Revolution?!? You can't define one as patriotic and not the other. Though many are trying. "Some," Talking Points Memo and others have noted, " are drawing parallels between the anti-Wall Street protests and the Tea Party -- a comparison the conservative organization loathes.""So, rage against duly elected government is patriotic, quintessentially American," The Daily Show's Jon Stewart observed in the above clip, "Whereas rage against multinational shareholder-accountable corporations is anti-American, gotcha."Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler said the protesters are breaking laws by wrongfully camping in a park and marching on the Brooklyn Bridge. "That's not tea party behavior, that's not America-loving behavior" he assured Fox News in an interview. "Everything you described there, I believe, is a misdemeanor," Stewart retorted. "The actual tea party was a fucking felony!"" ... Did you know what the tea party actually was? Do you you know how much trouble you'd get in if you broke into a ship, stole the cargo from the ship's owners, and just threw it overboard?!?....You're named after the most celebrated act of theft and vandalism of private property in our nation's history and you can't stomach a little park camping?!?"According to Meckler's site, the Tea Party Patriots' mission is “to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets.”A portion of the statement released by the Wall Street protesters via Nation of Change reads, ""We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.....Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone."If the Tea Baggers consider themselves great American patriots and an obvious parallel can be drawn between the common intent of the two groups, can't those occupying Wall Street, then, be given the respect they deserve as patriotic citizens exercising their Constitutional rights?
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