It doesn't take much searching around the internet to find articles from former tea party members or anarchists and libertarians involved in Occupy Wall Street proclaiming that OWS shares much in common with their original Tea Parties and their old struggle to end the FED, accomplish an end to the New World Order, bailouts and all government intrusion. Example:
"We support you in exercising your First Amendment Right. We are outraged that any peaceful demonstrator would be assaulted or abused by any authorities.
If you are protesting because there are no jobs We stand with you.
We are for a free economy and recognize that what we have now is NOT a free economy; it is not capitalism, what we have is a fascist state or crony-capitalism. There is nothing free about doing business with Countries that manipulate their currencies to attract cheap labor. We agree that these jobs need to come back to America.
If you are protesting because no one has gone to jail. We stand with you.
Regardless of what is being said from the white house and media, we know that there are many in the financial district and the banks that have committed fraud and outright theft and we too want to see them prosecuted. We support: STOP THE LOOTING & START PROSECUTING.
If you are protesting because everything costs more, We stand with you.
We see prices rise in our food, gas, clothes yet our wages have stayed the same or have decreased. The Federal Reserve has bailed everyone out but us and not only are we going to have to pay for that, those bailouts make the price of everything else go up because it devalues our currency. We support monetary reform."
I wish I could believe this Occupy Wall Street was still about (r)Evolution, but so far, all I am seeing is a painful rehash of how the corporate-funded government turned the pre-Presidential election tea party movement into the joke it is now. We were anarchists and ultra-libertarians, but above all we were peaceful. So, the media tried painting us as racists. But when that didn't work they tried to goad us into violence. When that failed, they killed our movement with money and false kindness from the theocratic arm of the Republican party. That killed our popular support.
I am sharing these observations, so you guys know what's going on and can prevent the media from succeeding in painting you as violent slacker hippies rebelling without a cause, or from having the movement be hijacked by a bunch of corporatists seeking to twist the movement's original intentions. If you think this can't happen, it happened to the Independence Party and the tea party movement. Don't let it happen to your movement as well.
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Nevermind the fact that all of these views are inane and aren't remotely about what Occupy Wall Street is about: ending absurd levels of income inequality, increasing financial regulations, prosecuting banks, loan haircuts and decreasing unemployment through some sort of stimulus. Nevermind the fact that all of their politicians hate us and decry us as treasonous pieces of shit. The Tea Party stands in solidarity with us and clearly there are many parallels between us and them!
Instead of adhering to a revisionist history of the Tea Party, let's look at the past. You know, a real history of the Tea Party as documented by the New York Times and Huffington Post at the time of the first major wave of protests:
"The events were meant to protest government spending, particularly the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus package and its $3.5 trillion budget.
Although organizers insisted they had created a nonpartisan grass-roots movement, others argued that these parties were more of the Astroturf variety: an occasion largely created by the clamor of cable news and fueled by the financial and political support of current and former Republican leaders.
Fox News covered the events all day with reporters and hosts at the scenes. Neil Cavuto, a Fox host, and Michelle Malkin, a conservative contributor, headlined the protests in Sacramento while Sean Hannity broadcast his show from the protests in Atlanta.
The Web site TaxDayTeaParty.com listed its sponsors, including FreedomWorks, a group founded by Dick Armey, the former House majority leader; Top Conservatives on Twitter; and RFCRadio.com.
The idea for the demonstrations grew in part out of a blast from Rick Santelli, a CNBC commentator who on Feb. 19 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange said that the Obama administration was promoting bad behavior in helping people who were at risk of losing their homes and that Americans should protest with a tea party in Chicago."
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen the Tea Party was always about promoting a quasi-fascist vision of America! I'm sure that the vast majority of you remember this and were similarly annoyed when you heard the comparisons to the Tea Party. I'm sure that you were annoyed when you saw Ron Paul placards being waved at your local OWS rally. Not only were we not astroturfed and promoted by Fox News but we also stand in diametric opposition to them and their inane philosophy. We stand in diametric opposition to their elected fanboys like Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker. Never let this revisionist history take hold on the internet or in your local Occupy Wall Street organization.
It's only a matter of time until these infiltrating reactionaries leave OWS and start calling us "union stooges" or "Obama worshippers" but the sooner it happens, the better. I don't want to rehash old arguments with conspiracy theorists when I'm protesting, I want to be a part of a social revolution that is for broadly leftist goals. I'm sure that many of you feel the same way. Please feel free to post your own stories below.