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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]It was his idea to go inside? Where did you get that information?[/quote]

Where did you get the information that someone claimed it was his idea?
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The PP made it sound as if he was the only one trying to cause trouble. Didn't everyone else decide to go there in the first place? It seems as though the decision to cause trouble was made earlier in the process.[/quote]

Based on the journalist's own article which is obviously one-sided, there was never a consensus to enter the museum. As the group neared the museum, it split into two groups, the smaller of which went toward the museum doors. Security guards attempted to stop this smaller group, but a few individuals got past them. At the door, these last few individuals were stopped by the guards. There was some pushing and shoving, during which the journalist ran past the guards and into the museum. Simultaneously, the guards used pepper spray, spraying the journalist in the process.

What is clear is that the majority of the group never even attempted to enter the museum. That some portion of the smaller group that did try to go into the museum stopped at the outer security perimeter and did not try to force themselves past the guards. A small number of protesters got past the outer perimeter and confronted guards at the front door. Only the journalist appears to have rushed past the guards and into the museum. According to the journalist, only 10 people were pepper sprayed. The journalist himself mocks the group for being unwilling to confront authority.

The journalist writes that he intended to undermine the protest and wasn't going to stop until he had the story. It is entirely believable on the basis of his own story that his rushing past the guards -- an act only he committed -- provoked the pepper spraying.

It is likely that most people don't have a good understanding of the DC protest, so please indulge me as I give a brief overview. The DC protest was originally organized some time ago by an anti-war group. A website for that group is here: http://october2011.org/ .  That group has a permit for a protest that expires either Sunday night (tonight) or Monday. I'm not sure which. Because of the various "Occupy" protests, the October 2011 protest sort of morphed into "Occupy DC". But, there has really been two facets of that protest all along -- one based in Freedom Plaza and the other in McPherson Square. The group that ended up at the Museum is from the Freedom Plaza contingent which is the anti-war rather than anti-Wall Street group (though there is lots of overlap).

So, what happened at the Air and Space Museum involved a small minority of anti-War protesters plus an admitted outside agitator. It really has nothing to do with the larger "Occupy DC" protest.

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