I am thinking that they are believing that they are modern day MLKs, getting arrested and all that.
NOT.
That is the driver for much of what the left does, especially the college kids. They want so much to feel like they fought "injustice" that they will manufacture things to be "righteously indignant" about. Gay marriage, nonexistent discrimination, Saint Trayvon... They've never seen real injustice so they make it up. I'd like to see them try to illegally immigrate to and vote in Mexico.