Nah, to be quite honest Kat, you're right. Peaceful protest is a beautiful thing, nothing feels better than kill em with kindness when they're the aggressive ones but will peaceful work? Has it ever? Did Gandhi work? Not to take anything away from the guy, he had some raw ideas and shit but it wasn't all kumbaya songs and salt boycots that crushed British Raj. Over 800,000 british were killed, not exactly a peaceful protest victory. Sure maybe no blood on Gandhi's hands, but motherfuckers died and that's undeniable.
Nobody want's to see this thing get violent, but I highly doubt anything will change otherwise. Name one time ever in history where shit was as fucked up as things are here and now, and cite the peaceful protest that overcame that shit with victory.... can't do it.. cause it's never happened, ever. Hopefully it'll stay calm as long as possible and hopefully the amount lost will be minimal, but to hope 5000 people out of 300 million(Less than .002% of the nation) are going to make a change without violence at some point, well that's really optimistic I guess.
Also... hella funny this cat tried to have his thread deleted to save face. With a name like "spike" I really expected him to be a lot cooler.... (trying really hard to keep a straight face as I say that)