re: #199 goddamnedfrank

When the police allow liberals to get away with openly brandishing firearms at their protests then I’ll believe that the playing field is being fairly refereed. Unarmed, unthreatening women getting pepper sprayed is hardly an equivalent response.

re: #200 Killgore Trout

Do you really not know why those wingnuts weren’t arrested? I don’t believe that for a second and won’t insult you by telling you why. You can figure it out if you want to. Voluntary stupidity is always an option I suppose.

Issues with some cops pulling a power trip aside, it seems to me that demographics is a main factor why, for all of the incendiary rhetoric and brandishing of weapons from some TPers, the incendiary rhetoric and mob action from some OWSers attacts much more attention (and arrests) by the cops.

TPers tend to be older, with more to lose, so they figure out what they can get away with and typically don’t get into mob actions like OWS. The bad actors in OWS typically are young, stupid, and there to start shit, which attracts police attention and gets them skittish, leading to situations where some bonehead cops decide to pull mace on people who were not an imminent threat to them.

Not rationalizing any of it, just how it looks to me.