But What About Their More Sharply Dressed Allies? Shouting Down Nazis in Olympia

About 850 protestors supplied some nice political theatre, complete with a Nazi clown brigade and creative chants and signage. Protestors used a public address system to drown-out and heckle the Nazis as they made speeches. One protestor took to the microphone and rhetorically asked the police why they came out in such force to protect Nazis when they attack protestors during our peace rallies. In a town where the police have rammed peaceful protesters with motorcycles and freely used pepper spray on grandparents and children, this seemed like a pretty good question to the crowd. Between the protestors' PA system, several megaphones, organized chants and a drum set, the protestors successfully drown-out the Nazis.

After an hour in the heat of the direct sun I looked for some shade and saw a small group of protestors beneath the trees surrounding our supreme court's temple of justice at the back of the protest area. In the shade I discovered that the acoustics perfectly projected the Nazi's speeches to this shady area so that we could hear what they were saying.

It was pretty much what I expected: the usual Nazi anti-Semitic conspiratorial drivel, rants about the racial purity and claims that the "white race" was responsible for all historical technological progress. The speaker was nervous and inarticulate and I wondered if he wasn't even a little glad that almost nobody there could even hear what he was saying.

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