"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Faces of Resistance Mock San Francisco's Newspaper of Record
These protesters have been tried in the public arena and left open to vigilante justice and a lifetime of being associated with crimes for which they have yet to be convicted, with a permanent Internet trail for any future employer to consider. Far from critical journalism, this is state propaganda at its finest.
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What irony (hypocrisy?) is on display here. The author wants his street agitators to enjoy the legal protections afforded to citizens in a liberal democracy even as they engage in violent anti-state behavior in a public place. Now in Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Egypt, or North Korea, what they did would be heroic. In the SF Bay area, it's a joke.