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In reply to the discussion: WOW! Incredible: Unbelievable picture from the Berkeley protests last night.... [View all]A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)I'm all for peaceful protest and the right to assemble, but that is a picture of the I 80/I 580 section of freeway, north of the Bay Bridge interchange - a route used by tens of thousands of people who at that hour, were likely just trying to get home. Not to mention the dozens of truckers who make money BY THE MILE who got to sit there and make squat while this protest spilled over onto and shut down a major section of interstate.
FWIW, there was likely a co-worker of mine affected by that, and it could just as easily have been me, as my firm has a scheduled daily delivery just north of where that photographer took that photo from. If it was me, I would be showing somewhat less undertanding than I am now.
Protest all you want, but keep it the fuck off the freeways. Some of us have a job to do or just want to get home.