| -CraZed- said: Also I have to disagree with the fact that it was just the exposure that made the difference. Occupy Wall Street got TONS of exposure and what came out of that? Zero, zip, zilch, nada. And Waco also got tons of press even without the aid of the internet. It was on TV every day during the whole standoff. |
I think the comparable part of Occupy Wall Street was that OWS wasn't evicted from Zuccotti Park, not that they didn't get any of their (mostly incoherent and unrealistic) demands met. And Waco happened at a time when the media essentially consisted of three major networks plus CNN, all of which could be counted on to faithfully regurgitate the government's narrative. David Koresh being a fucking wacko child molester and not a salt-of-the-earth rancher didn't help the Branch Davidians' image.
I think a better comparison is probably Ruby Ridge. Randy Weaver had a lot of guns, too, and all it did was give the feds an excuse to slaughter his family. What he didn't have was a lot of sympathetic people with cameras.
