the numbers thing is silly. we can quibble endlessly about it (5000 fit in fed plaza? is that laying down stacked five high?). nobody is going to seriously argue that the numbers were close. what's important is that we had signifigantly more, and you had signifigantly less, out in the streets as compared to last year, and that is the direction in which the scales seem to be tipping.

whether we were two dozen strong (innaccurate, but still four times as strong as last year) or 60 (closer to accurate and almost ten times as strong as last year) what remains is that social justice activists find even that small a proportion (1/120, 1/250, 1/460, whereever you want to put it) threatening enough to have the police eject us from the space we held a permit for.

that must be a pretty weak hand you're holding.