Stop trying to make apologies for criminal acts, David.
I'm not.
The Wall Street protestors are the PROVEN criminals. Rapes, murders, harassment, intimidation, molotov cocktails, and openly calling for more violence.
The OWS crowd are classic zealots, who feel that anything they do is rationalized by their "Cause" (whatever that all-encompassing Rorschach-test can be interpreted to mean. Although its major thrust is Marxist.)