Are you assuming Mr. Briggs is assuming a conspiracy, because you assume only a small group of people knows the details of the event? Oh please….

Repeating what Mr. Briggs wrote: don’t expect the burden of proof to land on our side.

“Maybe the person in charge was kind of schoolmarmy and the people had tatoos or weird hair or something. Who knows?”

It was a public meeting, malgre. Just because you are ignorant does not mean other people are.

“But to extrapolate some kind of government scheme …”

Do you even know what extrapolate means?

“… to deprive you of your ‘right’ to free mp3’s is most likely paranoid.”

Apparently you don’t understand what fair Copyright means.

Were they? As far as I know, they were just handing out fliers. They weren’t blocking anybody’s entry, and they were just peacefully, nonviolently standing there, handing out flyers and not insisting that anybody take them.

So please, give us some video footage or something of even one moment when they were blocking somebody’s entry because they wouldn’t give the flyers out, and don’t expect the burden of proof to land on our side.

Again, this is a silly attempt at an ad hominem, and you have just confirmed it by writing “what if”, indicating that you are not certain.

“People who make things are in the minority.”

Who make what are in the minority?

“Just because a majority claims some right to other people’s work doesn’t make it happen.”

You just stated that they aren’t the majority. Besides, can you even elaborate on how anyone “claims some right to other people’s work”?

“One of the only reasons to have a government is to protect minorities from the actions of the mob.

This is at least the second time you have used this statement, but you haven’t elaborated on how this is of any relevance here.

“I doubt those kids would have been thrown out if they were just handing out fliers.”

They were threatened with arrest, so your opinionated statement means nothing.

“They were shouting in people’s faces, being overly aggressive, trying to force their opinion down people’s throats.”

You could say that about any group that disagrees with you, so unless you can prove it to be true, your statement is speculation, not fact.

Besides, your statement can be said on those in the pro-Copyright side.

“Just like the ‘majority’ nutjobs at the health care rallies in the states.”

Are you so afraid of exposing your foolishness that you won’t specify who these “nutjobs” are?

Try to be more relevant than writing two opinions regarding one question in Mr. Briggs’s comment, but still not answering it; or at least crop the drivel.

I doubt those kids would have been thrown out if they were just handing out fliers. They were shouting in people’s faces, being overly aggressive, trying to force their opinion down people’s throats. Just like the ‘majority’ nutjobs at the health care rallies in the states.