Well? Are you going to shoot a guy in an inflatable costume?
No. You aren’t. Because everyone has eyes on him. And if they have eyes on him, they have eyes on you.
You also can’t see his face. Is the individual afraid? Is he angry? Is he sane? Is he enjoying this?
Is he wearing body armor? Is he naked? If shit goes down, he can’t really run. This guy has more balls than you. If he has more balls than you he probably knows something you don’t. He’s not afraid of you. You’re afraid of him.
Suddenly you realize your vulnerability. This gun won’t stop him. This body armor won’t stop the crowd. There is too many of them. But just one frog.
They haven’t shot them with real guns yet, but they are happy to use less lethal weapons. Here’s one officer pepper spraying the fan intake.
IIRC, that guy said he’s had spicier meals.
Pepper spray is designed to go right to the face. Apparently doesn’t work too well when it’s just going to float around you. Especially if you’re used to spicy food.
I knew eating all those wings would give me superpowers.
It depends on your sensitivity. One of my coworkers had the “genius” idea to test her pepper spray indoors and reactions from coworkers and customers ranged from “this is somewhat unpleasant” to “I can’t breathe, I have to step outside.” Some older customers who came in up to an hour later were still coughing.
I can’t find it now, but that particular protestor was interviewed a few minutes later. Apparently the costumes not only provide an effective cushion to stop pepperball ammo without it breaking, but the standard issue CE spray that LEOs are deploying is a chemical gel spray. They sprayed his belt and made the suit smell funny, but did no damage other than clogging the fan that inflates the suit.
Edit; goodnight. I’m off to bed. I’m certain that other lemmings will find the interview that I saw.
Like, assault?
So make sure to wear gas masks underneath and possibly body armor, gotcha
Careful, they consider defending yourself an aggressive act.
He can be loaded too even if I doubt it.
The furries are set up to do the funniest thing ever.
That furry has no fur so I believe it’s a slimer.
Too expensive to potentially get badly dirty.
What’s the point of the article? Are they trying to paint peaceful protest as some sort of military-style tactical … terrorism?
I don’t think so, the person they interview supports this behavior
How have you used this in your own work?
The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army was the idea of combining civil disobedience and actual clowning skills. We were able to sometimes be in between the protests and the police creating a sort of clowny cushion. But also we were quite mediagenic, and we attracted a lot of media attention, to then make points about the issues.
The Clown Army showed me that you can achieve something I like to call “the irresistible image.” That is simply an image that expresses the point you are trying to make. It’s not just an abstract idea, but you’ve created an image through your street action that is so strange or surprising that even your ideological opponents will reproduce the image, and therefore they’re helping you tell your story. It applies to Portland today as well, with the frogs.
Thanks for the context; I stand corrected.
Okay, I’m not an organizer. But since that group was from the UK, I think we need a US version. The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clowns of the United States. Or, the CIRCUS for short.
The us has done clown protests before, it was around the same time as milkshaking and it led to the fascists attempting to turn the clown emoji into a dogwhistle
Peace Frogs!
Blood in the streets, the town of Chicago
Bloody red sun of fantastic LA
pro tip if you cover yourself in semen no one is going to want to touch you and if they did you are now slippery
How does one obtain that much semen?
Joyfully.
It might have to come from a studding horse, I’ve seen 5 gallon buckets being shipped around
I was in a band called Tactical Frivolity.
We mostly did mash ups of Kraftwerk and Polyphonic Spree.
Links? Soundcloud?
Sorry, but Tactical Frivolity never had a SoundCloud on account of being made up for a joke by me yesterday 🤷
how dare you spread lies on the internet /lh
at protests people need to move as groups and frequently engage in dearrests. the inflatable suits put people at risk because it means that others have to hang back with them to keep an eye on their 6.
