Subtle, they were not. But that’s fucking brilliant!

I’m not posting an excerpt here because it’s your typical “officials tout censorship” boilerplate.

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    “We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest … We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications.”

    If the people do peaceful protests to not get arrested, and they get arrested anyway, there’s no longer an incentive to continue protesting peacefully.

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      With how things go these days, who’s to say that’s not exactly what they want as pretext for martial law?