I was in LA last weekend teaching a seminar and visiting with my daughter. She joined the day time Trump protests, which is most natural since she is an editor at a liberal rag. She described what went on, more or less:
The daytime protest marchers wandered around looking for a freeway onramp to enter but the Highway Patrol was having none of that. Marchers were high-fiving cops and it was all peaceful. Then the night time protest starts later. And the night time cops come out. Although the protesters are mostly peaceful, the fringies tag along and look for mayhem opportunities. The cops are ready.
For "law and order" imagery, the cops surround a few hundred peaceful demonstrators on four sides and order them to disperse or they will be arrested. They cannot disperse, shades of Tien An men. So the cops arrest nonviolent protestors (meaning an easy time getting the numbers). The cops get a good image "arresting" 200, the film crews get footage of some knuckleheads elsewhere breaking windows, and everyone on both sides gets their worst fears confirmed by the media.
(I have a nephew who has been arrested for protesting in LA, and the charges are routinely dropped if nonviolent. Nothing will happen to the 200 arrested.)
It is all literally street theatre.
Nothing has changed.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
The daytime protest marchers wandered around looking for a freeway onramp to enter but the Highway Patrol was having none of that. Marchers were high-fiving cops and it was all peaceful. Then the night time protest starts later. And the night time cops come out. Although the protesters are mostly peaceful, the fringies tag along and look for mayhem opportunities. The cops are ready.
For "law and order" imagery, the cops surround a few hundred peaceful demonstrators on four sides and order them to disperse or they will be arrested. They cannot disperse, shades of Tien An men. So the cops arrest nonviolent protestors (meaning an easy time getting the numbers). The cops get a good image "arresting" 200, the film crews get footage of some knuckleheads elsewhere breaking windows, and everyone on both sides gets their worst fears confirmed by the media.
(I have a nephew who has been arrested for protesting in LA, and the charges are routinely dropped if nonviolent. Nothing will happen to the 200 arrested.)
It is all literally street theatre.
Nothing has changed.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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Here in LA, I saw whole classrooms of high school children (not yet voting age) walking along the sidewalk during class hours with protest banners while their teachers supervised them. Most of the kids don't really know what they are protesting for except that it is a good excuse to skip class and satisfy their liberal teachers' agenda. Shame on these teachers for using kids for their selfish purposes instead of showing them the fundamentals of growing a business to attain freedom and at the same time create lasting change.
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