The fire at the protest was set by

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Poll question: The fire at the protest was set by

Poll result (89 votes)
An angry protestor	(6 votes, 7%)	Vote
An agent provocateur	(73 votes, 82%)	Vote
Not sure	(10 votes, 11%)	Vote

[benddem]

1. faux news n/t

[baldguy]

2. Ten hours of peaceful protest today.

Guess what's going to be the lead pic on the "news"?

[Christof]

3. Sad.

But true.

I hate the news.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I think the lead pic will mostly be the massive crowd

it's a hard story to suppress

[jus_the_facts]

5. well....it WAS a *GREEN* dragon.....

......makes ya wonder!!

[movonne]

6. Maybe Faux news drop a cigarette on the balloon.

[proud patriot]

7. I voted I don't know

[joanski01]

8. I heard one of the protesters

shout out that Fox News did it and is blaming them.

[SpiralHawk]

9. The Smirking Spawn of Satan ?

Could be. I mean, the Repub National Committee has been warning about scuzz-infected rodent releases, and sundry demonic plagues being loosed upon them.

Good thing somebody has set up an Orgone Blaster in Brooklyn to set the Repubs right with the koZmos. There is hope for us all.

[H2O Man]

10. Sometimes you have to step outside the frame

to get a good view of the picture. From my home in upstate New York, the minute I saw and heard reports of the fire, I knew that it was someone from the "other side." It just did not fit -- at all -- the beautiful picture of the protest marches. No question about it. It had to be a republican-inspired slime, trying to detract from the wonderful job the protesters did. I know that Martin Luther King, Jr. was looking down, smiling today! What a wonderful demonstration of the true American Spirit!

[starroute]

11. The people pushing the dragon had scarves across their faces

I noticed this when it first appeared on screen, several minutes before the fire, and thought it was really weird. Many of them were holding black umbrellas over their heads and most of them had scarves across their mouths, several of which looked like those Middle Eastern style checked headcloths. They didn't look at all like your average friendly local protest marcher. When I saw the dragon on fire, I assumed it had been done as a deliberate disruption by the people who brought it, and that they were not ordinary protesters.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. It was the umbrella people?

I thought they were strange

[-..__...]

12. Marinus van der Lubbe

[Dookus]

13. No idea

I've seen no evidence to support either side. Would "anarchists" do such a thing? yeah. Would "provocateurs" do it? yeah.

[NYCGirl]

15. FYI, here's some information on the "Greene Dragon" group...

http://www.greenedragon.org/