When your mere existence is seen as criminal the fortitude it takes to resist that system is profound and impactful. Peaceful resistance is one of the most powerful methods of protests. silent, focused and taking up space
The action of walking across a bridge is seen as a threat to the state and the status queue. These actions at their core are to show the ones who proclaim existence is criminal to be the actual criminals.
The optics of a peaceful people being targeted with state sponsored violence is never in line with the values a country allegedly upholds for all of its people. It strips away the mask and shows the ugly everyone denies.
Fast forward to the twenty first century and one could be easily baffled in how a man singing show tunes twerking in a giraffe onsite could possibly be of those same movements of yesterday.
There is a calculated and even chaotic genius to these tactics. For all their super soakers, and flashbanger party favors they do not know how to subdue peaceful resistance
Robby Roadsteamer stepped and many others have lit the torch that refuses to dim once again. The machine stalls in the face of tactical twerking and sensuality.
Just look at this picture heavily armed federal agents dragging away this generations symbol of both sexual magnetism and peaceful resistance. They have turned this thong clad singer into a symbol and that should be noted.
Behold the apex predator of the Portland concrete: the Inflatable Green. With bulging eyes and a total lack of skeletal structure, the Frog Brigade deployed.
They faced the tactical armor of the state with nothing but pressurized air and a defiant croak. When the chemical spray hit, the frogs didn’t blink—partly because they are vinyl, but mostly because they are ancient omens of a failing empire.
The state brought a phalanx; the people brought a pond. The state will always lose in the face of peaceful resistance
As they did then
And as they do now.
