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A lot of sound and fury, signfying nothing, as the bard said.
Well, not a lot of sound and fury, actually.
I spent the morning watching two news stations and the live feed from the protestor's website. They had a grand total of 14 viewers. That includes me.
I'm assuming that at least a half-dozen or more of the others were local law enforcement.
Oh, and when I say local, I mean local.
The protest started with four people with a bullhorn, and a lot of ranting, some of it in Spanish and Spanglish. It is extraordinarily sad to watch one dude with a bullhorn try to lead the other three early arrivers in a rousing chant.
Didn't rouse much.
Eventually the bus from Philly arrived, and swelled their numbers alarmingly. I think they may have eventually had like ... two dozen or so?
They were on the lawn in front of the county hoosegow.
To start, anyway.
I began to worry when they began to block traffic on Eagleville Road. They marched in a really, really big circle, chanting, "undocumented, un" ... something.
Then, just in time for change of shift at the big house (I'm sure that played into the tactical planning), there was the sound of police sirens and the live webcast went off line.
I did get to see the line of police cars and paddywagons pulling out of the county slammer's driveway. I saw at least 15 different jurisdictions.
Hope the kids enjoy their courtesy body cavity searches.
I have every expectation that they will be back. The National Occupy Convention or convocation or gathering or happening or whatever they call it is in Philadelphia next week.
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