This Is What a Mob Looks Like

“Sally Kohn, a self-identified ‘community organizer,’ praised the Wall Street loiterers on CNN’s website, comparing the protest to the Boston Tea Party, which she claimed, ‘helped spark the American Revolution,’ adding, ‘and yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent.’ First of all, the Boston Tea Party was nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun. Paul Revere’s nighttime raid was intended exclusively to protest a new British tea tax. (The Wall Street protesters would be more likely to fight for a new tax than against one.) … The Canadian environmental group behind Occupy Wall Street, Adbusters, has compared the Wall Street ‘revolutionaries’ to America’s founding fathers. (Incidentally, those who opposed the American Revolution fled after the war to … Canada.) The — again — Canadians exulted, ‘You sense they’re drafting a new Declaration of Independence.’ … The tea partiers didn’t arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence. They’re perfectly happy with the original. Tea partiers didn’t block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama’s unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare. Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home. Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning.” –columnist Ann Coulter