Clinton Huxley wrote:There's a time and a place for civil disobedience. What was the American Revolution but civil disobedience on a massive scale? What brought the hated poll tax down in the UK? The riots.
If the OWSers were advancing high ideals, independence from a tyrannical non-representative government, confiscatory taxation, military quartering of soldiers in citizens' homes, denials of due process, denials of fair trials, involuntary impressment into military service, and other such things, then perhaps the majority of people would stand with them, and the government would hopefully relent.
As it stands, I've not heard anything OWS is advocating that makes a damn bit of sense. Most of the time, the folks that support them can't even articulate what the OWS movement is actually standing for, because it's a shell game. They hide behind the "nobody runs the movement, and therefore there are as many reasons for it as there are people in the movement," type nonsense. It basically just becomes a griping mob, mainly asking for free stuff. To compare it to the American Revolution is like comparing the fight the NVA in Vietnam to the fight against the Nazis in WW2.
