Well the protests in Portland, Oregon are certainly going to continue, with or without anonymous Federal troops to try and maintain order. I suggest this because their movement just went viral on the Internet with a single photo:
I am told it is legal in Portland to appear nude in public as part of a protest is a protected form of political expression, it's not an act of public indecency as you might think. She was only wearing a mask and a hat. She appeared from out of the haze of tear gas and pepper balls, much to the surprise of the occupying troops. In all, the woman’s appearance lasted about 15 minutes. News photographers said she slipped away, uninjured, into the crowd.
I've written previously about the Kent State protests which ended so badly 50 years ago. Today's images are just as startling as the image below of a girl kneeling over one of her fallen classmates. Now we have color images and video, a lot more than when I was growing up. History doesn't repeat itself exactly but it does rhyme. Don't know who said it but it seems apropos today.
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