Great work.
From a proud member of the DC Chapter.
'Pod.
Now, now. We were not there to physically take on the @#$%^&*'s, so three was plenty (especially since Nitro is such a big strong tall fellow). We were there to give them a little stomach acid, that's all. To let them know that some people are catching on to them. We knew we were going to get thrown out eventually. That's also why I don't consider the shoving to be charge-worthy (when you try to provoke a reaction, and you get one, well...).
Now, if we'd had a few more people, we could have done a two-stage disruption and still left one person in there to record the whole presentation. But the second disruption might have escalated the mood in a bad direction. These people are zealots even if they're not prime physical specimens.
OTOH, let us acknowlege that at least *some* of the people there were honorable opponents. Afterall, they did return the flag and the hat.
You got the hat and our flag back. There's hope for a couple of people that were in there.
I may get flamed for this but I think many people in there are gentle, well-meaning souls who really believe and practice the "brotherhood" aspects of their movement. Others are disaffected freaks who've finally found a place to "belong". That's powerful psychological stuff. They are seriously deluded, however, and blind to what the world would really be like if they finally got what they're after. And they've all been misled by conscious manipulators at the core of this group.
But yes, I think they also thought giving us our stuff back was the right thing to do.
Otherwise you were in the middle of a bunch of commies.
We knew that. :P
You're crazy!
Yeah, I know. mr. hellinahandcart was NOT a happy camper when he found out what I was doing on Thursday night. (sigh)
You should have seen it Dan, they shuffled and surrounded Nitro....it was just unbelievable! You would have have decked them for sure! You should have seen these people...what a bunch of sadsacks!