An interesting thing happened to me during a Monster Cable protest last month in downtown Burlingame. After we had protested with chants and music in the streets & sidewalks, we had a caravan of 15-18 cars honking horns in protest as well. Some people gave their vocal support and others were ambivalent, but a couple particular gentleman expressed their displeasure because we were "disturbing their dog" or "making a couple of babies go crazy inside a restaurant". The latter stood in front of traffic to get his point across.

I realized that nothing I could say would make him understand our cause. In fact, anything to the contrary might make such a person make such protests illegal in the future. It was near the end of the caravan route, so I and others simply stopped honking and went to the next protest site in the hills of Burlingame. But, all the while, I was thinking "if you wanna make an omlet, ya gotta break some eggs". I mean, the whole point of protesting is to raise awareness, so if we had disturbed their Saturday morning brunches on for FIVE minutes, we pretty much did what we had set out to do. It really doesn't matter if he's angry with us or the head monster. Of course it would be better if he was inside a Best Buy and stopped buying a Monster Cable product because our protest led him to have a bad taste in his mouth because of our relentless protesting. I actually wish that I didn't need to be out there, but in a political climate of indifference, one must occasionally be that egg cracker....