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When I told Poohbah that they were “begging to be arrested”, I was speaking figuratively. They crashed a permitted gay protest, marched toward the stage, refused police instructions to go to their counter protest area and began chanting through bull horns. That’s begging to be arrested. They left the police zero alternative.

Lets see. They were (1) speaking in public, (2) walking on a sidewalk, (3) refusing illegal police orders.

Golly, send 'em to ole sparky already and be done with it! Such vicious dangerous thugs! (/sarcasm)

I’ve only attended 2 or 3 protest. The last was in West Palm Beach at the certification of the 2000 recount. One cute little babe broke away from the counter protest area and tried to get into the middle of our area. She looked adorable and innocent, but had a big mouth that wouldn’t stop. She was swarmed MUCH worse than the “Christians” at the gay protest. Multiple big dudes were in her face shouting insults, but she seemed unphased and kept up her anti-Bush platitudes with a smile on her face.

She was eventually persuaded to leave, but I’m sure if she didn’t, she’d have been arrested. Otherwise someone would have even lost their cool with her and done something stupid. If it were a dozen guys trying to do what she did with bull horns, I don’t think they’d have walked away from our area. They’d have been stretched out.

I’m sure if that girl had been roughed up, some fanatics would claim that it was because she was a Democrat or a woman. She was also black, and I sometimes wonder if there was a video camera trained on her like these “Christians” had, just hoping that someone would overreact and make heros of in the eyes of a gullible contingent like some on this thread.

Protests are permitted in order to keep them from becoming blood baths, with no one being able to prove who started what. This arrest was no more religiously motivated than an arrest of that girl would have been a racially motivated.