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<blockquote data-quote="Flyinghorse" data-source="post: 3258668" data-attributes="member: 119475">Man arrested for 2x4 labeled &quot;High Powered Rifle&quot;I&#039;m not clear how his dissent was silenced.&nbsp; You found a link to his story easily enough.&nbsp; Hell, it seems to me that getting caught and arrested is hardwired into the whole &quot;protest&quot; idea.&nbsp; Whether you think he&#039;s a jerk or not is up for debate.&nbsp; (I wouldn&#039;t have gone this route personally.)&nbsp; But his message found an audience precisely because he was &quot;caught&quot; and arrested.&nbsp; Just as was the case for innumerable protests in the past.&nbsp; Without that element, we&#039;d just have nameless, faceless people chained to trees, hanging about naked in office lobbies, etc.If this guy set out without considering 1) the possibility and 2) the desirability of being arrested, I&#039;d have to consider the possibility that the 2x4 was the brains of this operation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flyinghorse, post: 3258668, member: 119475"] [b]Man arrested for 2x4 labeled "High Powered Rifle"[/b] I'm not clear how his dissent was silenced. You found a link to his story easily enough. Hell, it seems to me that getting caught and arrested is hardwired into the whole "protest" idea. Whether you think he's a jerk or not is up for debate. (I wouldn't have gone this route personally.) But his message found an audience precisely because he was "caught" and arrested. Just as was the case for innumerable protests in the past. Without that element, we'd just have nameless, faceless people chained to trees, hanging about naked in office lobbies, etc. If this guy set out without considering 1) the possibility and 2) the desirability of being arrested, I'd have to consider the possibility that the 2x4 was the brains of this operation. [/QUOTE]

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