It's a free country.
I just get amused when it's painted as the "spontaneous voice of the people."
Admit it, when you saw this demonstration, you thought these folks were all random citizens who had had enough after the speech, and had all hauled out to the corner because they were Mad As Hell And Weren't Going To Take It Anymore.
These things are synchronized. It used to be phone trees, now it's e-mail. Doesn't make them sinister, but it isn't exactly Mom and Pop and little Sally having a sudden epiphany and hitting the streets.
Our local peace group is out every week, either on our corners, or more often, near Stanford, although usually in much smaller numbers than Thursday. Most of them are regulars in their 70s, dreaming of the good old days when The People were going to rise up and smash capitalism.
Current Events » in reply to re: Two questions
Nothing "sinister" about it.