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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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This is why I say the best protest outfit is a clown costume. One: big baggy clothes that you can hide body armor and other utilities underneath. Two: face paint that hides you from facial recognition. And three: the cops are gonna look like idiots beating a clown.
And if you want a fourth reason, your friends can paint all your faces the same so you’re harder to identify in the crowd.
They don’t care that they look cruel, cruelty is the point. They gassed an inflatable frog, choked out high schoolers, dog-piled Captain America, shot clergy, and show zero restraint around children and the elderly. Even before Trump they have savaged POC, women, LGBTQ, and teenagers with mohawks. Shame requires both a sense of right and wrong as well as some sort of consequence to make it work. Cops have been given carte blanche to be violent, and even if they do it for pleasure rather than the state will have their actions publicly defended by the state, and their moral compass is “might is right”.
No matter how one dresses or what actions they engage in during a protest, the new definition of terrorism is defying and disagreeing with the regime. Had the defendants all dressed like clowns the prosecution would have made the case that dressing like a clown is terrorism.
The last part is the main point of wearing all black.
No they can't!
That would be plagiarism!
One clown, one egg!
Not a clown with body armor and other utilities. You just end up making Juggaloes a terrorist organization.
Didn't the courts already determine that like a decade ago? Not saying I agree with it, but I seem to remember this already being a thing.
It's all upside then!
The armor and utilities go under the suit. By the time the truth comes out the cops already look stupider.
By the time truth comes out once, you've just condemned clowndom.
Edit: Unless you are considering making it an official military uniform of a breakaway political faction, in which case you've just rewritten the meaning of "send in the clowns".
Everyone who joins our military is already a clown, so why not make it official
Yes, I am in fact suggesting that.
Clown ~~car~~ APC, deploy
Whoop whoop!