Black Panthers v. Tea Party - An analysis

Once upon a time in high school I got really into leftist movements of the 1960s (what seemed to me, my antecedents, though despite thinking my actual parents were totally square it turns out my Mom was partially involved with organizing mill workers in NC and my Dad was involved in protesting the US attacks in Cambodia - much respect to my parents for putting up with my naive teenage bullshit). I read everything I could get my hands on re: Black Panther Party, Weathermen, Yippies, Che, Sendero Luminso, Ho Chi Minh, etc., etc., etc. My thought was that if the system didn't want me to know about them, I wanted to know.

Apparently, some idiots are comparing the right-wing anti-statists with the left-wing anti-statists and so the Tea Party has become comensurate with the Black Panther Party. Seriously? Please see my last post for my take on this, or see this post for Crystal M. Hayes' take.