Molotov cocktail set off at World Trade Center building in downtown Portland, police suspect Occupy Portland protesters

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Originally Posted by chucksnee

How can you, in one sentence say "The actions of a few idiots don't define the whole movement" and then with the very same breath say the Tea Party use the threat of violence?

And, I'm sure you can provide a link to all this violence the Tea Party used.

In Oregon even. Political showdown creates conflict in Roseburg park | The News-Review - NRtoday.com (http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20110720/NEWS/110729987 - broken link)

The problem with the Portland OWS movement specifically is that we have a large number of anarchists that were bussed in from other cities by some unidentified party in the mid-90's specifically to riot and clash with police.

The money in the endeavor apparently petered out. Most of the anarchists were young 15-17 year old kids who went home. Many stayed to live on Portland's streets and have been trying to recruit members. They saw OWS as a way to piggyback their own political agenda.

OWS Portland did their best to discourage and hand over the violent members of the movement, including this guy, to the Police who they worked with at all times to keep the entire protest peaceful.

[Interlude]

Hope is was OWS, maybe they're finally growing some balls. Time for some action.

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Originally Posted by Interlude

Hope is was OWS, maybe they're finally growing some balls. Time for some action.

Are you a teenager?

Some of your posts are rather silly what with all of your violent fantasies of social revolution.

Americas Progressives will never be able to pull that off no matter how enthralled you are with the idea.

Nowhere near the number of followers that the likes of Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot enjoyed.