[Terry Mross]

The question is how far will they be allowed to go before they see that “brick wall”?

[tanknetter]

The question is how far will they be allowed to go before they see that “brick wall”?

Well, there's really three ways this can go (imho):

Winter sets in and the protesters decide that whatever it is they're protesting isn't worth frostbite and hypothermia, and leave.

The protesters stick to basic trespassing and are otherwise non-violent (the violent ones being removed and getting to "wise up" courtesy of the prison population). IOW, they just remain a nuisance.

They expand and escalate their tactics.

In the case of the latter coming to pass, my guess is that it'll take another Kent State. Either by Law Enforcement/Military ... or by some manner of an armed citizenry that is confronted in an, er, unfortunate manner.

On another thread someone pointed out that 60s protester violence (specifically riots) came to an abrupt halt once heads started exploding at Kent State. For the vast majority of the dissatisfied youth crowd, seeing the head of the person next to you get explosively opened like a ripe cantelope courtesy of a high-velocity rifle round is going to be a great motivating force for finding some other way to spend their time.

Of course only a sociopathic lunatic (paging Professor Ayres, paging Professor Ayres. Professor Ayres, please pick up the white courtesy phone) would look forward to that sort of thing. But if these protests expand and escalate that's probably where we're headed.