25 Reasons Why Police Officers Never Showed Up To Tea Party Rallies

I can’t seem to figure out why police officers never bothered Tea Party protestors. Maybe #OccupyWallStreet could learn something from them. posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:27pm EDT

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robertakh a year ago

these people scare me.
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carl huag a year ago

When i say something about rightwing atrocities such as the pepperspraying or kent state murders my friend (ya he still is) jumps all the way off the deepend and calls me a communist. I dont have a degree in anything but a commond responce to me is ive got a professor on speed dial. People realy need to understand history to know this behavoir is scrarry dictatorships have historicaly been hostile to the educated and journalist because of there paroniod minds which are like that because they know there are doing wrong.
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davidb62 a year ago

guns don’t kill people. trigger happy people who shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun do!
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This article reminded me of a photo I took on a trip last year.
I would like to add that I feel the reason TeaPartiers were never pepper sprayed, rubber bulleted or arrested is that they were never considered a viable threat to the status quo.
Though they started strong and had valuable points, they very quickly were co-opted, and unfortunately became the tools of people with an agenda much larger than theirs.
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Because there weren’t any anarchist, nazi, communist, socialist agitators the police weren’t worried. Plus the Tea Party cleaned up afterwards while Eco-green advocates trash OWS and defecate in public. Classic.
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nanonanonano a year ago

Maybe OWS should arm themselves with weapons and regressive, phony religious, 2nd amendment signs…
Nah, that shit ain’t real. O.W.S is what a real movement looks like. The tea-party is just there to brainwash the sheeple.
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Scott W. a year ago

No. No, no, no. If there is any common sense on this fucking site this whole post will go down. What Matt Stopera is suggesting may have been joked about but it is in fact a terrible idea. You are telling a group of protesters who have been running into violence from police that they should arm themselves. I know I’m not the first person outraged by this post but if you don’t understand why then you should probably listen. Wow, I’m just livid. It was bad enough that some of the Tea Party protesters were armed for this exact same reason. Nothing will turn a protest into a riot faster then giving them guns. Especially since OWS already has problems you are looking at deaths. People WILL die if enough people show up with firearms, legally or otherwise. The police have been using excessive force, sure fine, but it’s been Non-violent. Ultimately the movement will succeed if they stand tall and refuse to back down. Not if they start bringing weapons. Remember; “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Which of these conditions haven’t been met yet?
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rcarolan a year ago

I don’t like the tea party, but their not doing anything illegal.
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alexirosew a year ago

As an Australian, I gotta say it: Damn America, what happened
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evang4 a year ago

EVERYONE of these crazy assholes should be either shot to death or placed into a mental institution for the rest of their natural life. im just sayin.
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Gaby a year ago

frightening. on a side note: i know why they’re called the tea party (even though that doesn’t make sense either), but i bet 90% of these people never drink tea.
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russells4 a year ago

Yeah, that makes me sympathetic to their cause… I really don’t get American “christians”, they seem so far removed from what Jesus says in the gospels. Bunch of inbred, fat, ignorant, selfish repugnicunts.
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Keriann a year ago

I agree with The Nuge, aka Ted Nugent, on this one; guns, god, and rock ‘n’ roll are the basic fundamentals of life…
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jasonmit a year ago

…..and not a single arrest. And when they leave, there’s not a big pile of garbage left behind. Someone hand me a gun and, what the hell, let’s read something from Psalms.
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shrinkage a year ago

Tea Partiers didn’t occupy public space overnight.
Matlock is on at 4:00.
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bahaha a year ago

SECOND AMENDMENT. look it up. be informed about your state’s gun laws. then go ahead and cry moar.
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stuartb2 a year ago

Many cities have laws that permit open carry. I’m assuming these rallies took place in such cities and that’s why the police didn’t intervene. This post is just ridiculous. When did buzzfeed stop posting actual internet buzz and take a drastic swing to the left?
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Connie J. a year ago

Meh.
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emcruz a year ago

Just goes to show how flawed our government is, attack the innocent, protect the psychotic.
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FrakMyLife a year ago

Kind of tired of this notion that one can’t be both liberal and a gun owner.
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