You saw the tit sucking unions protesting in Wisconsin and Ohio. Same thing on a smaller scale. Same thing will happen when Medicare and Social Security are cut here. Entitlements become expected rights but when there isn't enough money to pay for the free ride any longer people revolt. Just like a drug addict you have to wean them off the tit and it is painful. The best answer is to never put any one on the tit to begin with.
Its funny how the media desperately attempted to portray the Tea Partiers as the violent ones, when time and time again you see this from left wing riots, and you never see it in right wing demonstrations. Some of these goons should be dragged out in the street and shot.
Seriously, how do you compare this with some 75 year old woman raising a sign saying "don't tread on me" at a tea party rally? Yeah, really scary those tea party people. Yet the media is all fixated on the tea party and not these violent left wing demonstrations.
Of course. But that's how politicians buy votes. America thrived adhering to the Founders' principles.... until about 1900, when the Progressives started buying votes with the public purse... you can see where that has lead us. Progressives = Communists, Marxist, Socialists, Statists AMERICAN DEMOCRATS.... all semantic variations of the same thing. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Tea party members are not scared, yet. When they are, they'll panic like anyone else. In the meantime, be proud that the right's violence tends to be concentrated in time and explosive (pun intended) in nature. This gives us longer periods of seeming peace.
Capitalism has managed to externalize, from the US, most of the violence of living. Domestically, I guess you have forgotten McVeigh, your buddy.
What exactly was the escalation in Wisconsin? Look, you are as unAmeican as I can think of. Really and truly. The right to assembly and protest is American. Doesn't matter if it is a small or large group. You take away the right to protest, and then the protesters go underground and form groups who will take violent steps to make their protest known. A large group can lead to violence...just look at European soccer matches. Do we have the kind of violence at football games in America in the crowds that we see at soccer matches in Europe? Nope. Your argument is crap, and if it was a tea party rally that was being banned, you would go apeshit.