Secretive anti-Trump protests to erupt Super Bowl weekend in Houston

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21. This is not smart thinking at all.

This will hinder people going to and from a game which is not a political event and which vast swaths of Americans will deeply resent being politicized. I can think of an easy dozen ways this could all go very pear-shaped very quickly.

Now add in what the fallout from any kind of outside incident at the game could be. This game is a target and everyone knows it; there's huge security in, on, and around the venue every year. I mean, duh, right? It's the frigging Super Bowl.

To draw a very disquieting mental image (and for the record I am most definitely NOT advocating for any such thing that follows here), imagine a bomb going off in or near the stadium on game day (or even "just" a shooting, with an unknown number of suspects). Now imagine a huge protest outside or nearby when that happened. Now try to imagine the reaction regarding free assembly this administration would have to any such incident.

Chilling as hell, and rightly so.

People have been mentioning the Reichstag fire here lately. I can't think of a more tailor-made situation for that moment in history to repeat itself right now than for something ugly to happen at the Super Bowl, and if that were to occur, the protesters in the area would surely be somehow blamed, and blamed immediately with no proof forthcoming by Trump and his lackeys. Most of red-blooded America would go right along with it, mob mentality in full force, and fascism would fall on us all like a bag of hammers.

These protests at this time and place are a very, very misguided idea. Way too much could go wrong in too many ways, and the fallout would be.... Unfortunate. For all of us.

I have a very bad feeling about this. I think protesting Trump then and there, no matter how right and no matter how morally justified, is fighting the right battle on the wrong battlefield.

Or, as Mr. Horse once said, "no sir... I don't like it."