You know something? I have posted cautionary post after cautionary post to people talking about “protecting” themselves against verbal, non-physical threats on this forum off and on for weeks, so take your scolding school-teacher tone and stuff it.
Insisting on being heard IS NOWHERE NEAR THE SAME AS “GOING OFF”.
Meek and mild people like you who have allowed the media to cow you into silence or, at most, raising your hand only to never be called on to speak, are never heard by any meaningful number of people. Your meek, media-instilled, bed-wetting fear is exactly the problem. Now quit preaching to me and go bother someone else. Or go suck your thumb and read a romance novel while you wait for that certain journalistic someone, handsome and dashing astride a white horse, to experience that pang of conscience you have your heart set on and who will step forward to do the “right thing” you dream of.
You’re living with a boot on your neck already, your own boot.
bustinchops comments from an earlier thread: Megaphones and speakers - drown them out altogether. Get a couple of big honking JBL speakers and run some old Jimi Hendrix through those bad dudes, recite the Dec of Ind, Bill of Rights, etc., just keep it going.