Let’s say you are a family from Fairfax, California. Father, Mother, Billy, 9, and Ashley, 7. You have been planning a trip the the east coast for months. You fly into New York, where the high point of the trip will be a boat ride to the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day. You’ve been telling Billy and Ashley that according to family lore, your great great grandfather wept when he saw the Statue of Liberty from his ship.
Then you get there, and you find the Statue of Liberty is closed because some ass “on the spur of the moment” (her words) has taken it upon herself to climb up the Statue as a protest.
Whatever was she protesting? Tourism? Patriotism? The National Park Service?
Whatever she was protesting, did she attract adherents to her cause?
I am fully aware that sometimes in a protest you have to shut things down. You have to put your body into the gears of the machinery. I am aware that July 4th protests are an American tradition. (Read Frederick Douglass’s July 4th oration.)
I also believe that you should act only after careful thought and planning. The Statue of Liberty was beyond annoying. It was dumb.
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