This is what they call a peaceful protest in the first world.
I for one felt it severely lacking in teargas, screaming, looting, rubber bullets, racist songs and happy bleeding youths like our South African Peaceful Protests, but whatever, each to his own, I guess.
On a serious note, they stood around happily with their balloons, their leader came and gave a short impassioned speech into the loudhailer, and they released their balloons into the sky, and went home. Police presence was ludicrously overmatched to the aging protestors - we saw a policeman with a serious submachine gun even, but no violence was ever going to happen.
Interesting to see!
(Source: hashcool)
