That's the other worry. Some of these guys really ARE there just to make noise, wave signs, get in somebody's face and generally be pains in the ass but no violent intent. The problem is that as Mao said "the revolutionary soldier must move through the masses like a fish through water," and that Mere Nuisance majority provides the water that those violent revolutionary fish need to move through and hide among. Some are more malignant, like "I won't commit violence myself but I will provide cover and shelter for those who do."
This country is criminally undersupplied with Scoops... once they've refused the order to disperse just shovel 'em up wholesale, back up the truck and dump 'em straight into detention cells.
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