So anything OWS does is right and everything police do is wrong

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105. That's the thing about an open decentralized movement

There's nobody to disavow it publicly. Each occupy is it's own thing. People will disavow it, but there's not one press office that speaks for the entire movement.

This is where Tea Party comparisons are apt. I don't think there were a whole lot of people wearing three-cornered hats with tea bags hanging from them, but there were some and they made good photo ops (even Glen Beck eventually asked people to stop dressing up in colonial outfits because it looked stupid). And there's nobody to say who is an who isn't part of the movement, because it's open to everybody who shares the basic principles.

Same thing here. The number of people burning the flag was small. But it made a good photo. And who's to say that those people aren't really part of the movement? They oppose the one percent and they were there. So that makes them part of it. That they acted like asses and can damage the OWS brand is unfortunately part of the cost of doing business. It's a risk you take with an open movement.