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32. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

I don't see how, by virtue of being protesters, they should somehow be legally absolved from the consequences of their actions.

They have a thousand encouraged and appropriate venues in the Bay Area. They chose to disrupt public transportation in an area where many people rely on it - where people are encouraged to do away with automobiles in favor of public transit by the transportation policies of the state and local counties.

Trifling with BART is no minor thing, as the union discovered over the summer when the public went completely apeshit on them during the strike.

I'm sorry, but very few people are going to support, "We can do whatever we want because our cause is just!" It's juvenile and the mark of immature political minds. I expect this from college students with more passion than sense - not adults who should know the negative impact of holding thousands of innocents captive to their politics.

Workers' lives matter, too. And this protest hurt them, black and white and everything in between.

I said it in the thread title, and I'll repeat it again: When you play a stupid game, you win a stupid prize.

Consequences are part of civil disobedience. If they weren't prepared to accept them as a mature political participant, they had zero place being out there to begin with.