Johnny had gotten the video clips from the resort that Miranda needed. He had also recorded the video of Miranda explaining the reason for the demonstration that would play while the pictures were shown. He contacted Miranda at their secret location to let her know they were ready on January 16th. The videos were shipped to each of the three locations to the ones organizing the demonstrations. Miranda told Johnny that at last count, there were over 200 signs for the demonstrators to carry at each location.
Miranda laughed out loud while she and Johnny were wrapping up the preparations. Johnny asked, “What’s so funny?”
Miranda answered, “I was just thinking about the high level of adrenalin. A line from my favorite movie, ‘Flashback’ came to me. The old hippie said, “I haven’t had a rush like this since the Berkley riots!” It just hit me funny.”
Johnny said, “OK.” He didn’t find anything funny about this super serious situation.
January the 17th came and Johnny had arranged for a huge screen to be set up about a block away from the capitol building. At the stroke of twelve, midday, vans rolled up and many people got out with their signs, the video started rolling on the huge screen and the demonstration was on! The demonstrators went every which way and news cameras were on the scene almost as fast as the police! Miranda’s voice rang out loud and clear over everything. “My fellow citizens of the greatest country in the world, the preamble to the constitution says all men are created equal. Our ancestors came to this country to escape the tyranny and confines of Europe and other countries. What is happening in our great country is so horrifying that our ancestors are probably turning over in their graves. Our own countrymen are killing the homeless addicts and elderly. This is not being done by an enemy of the US, but by our own! If we do not stand up, soon our rights will be violated, as well.
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It was at this point that the swat team arrived, turned off the video and started throwing canisters of teargas into the crowds. There was screaming, running, no stampeding actually, and the demonstrators who were still left were carted off to jail. Meanwhile, the demonstration had begun in LA and since this was much closer to home, where the pictures had actually been taken,it was not as peaceful a demonstration! The crowd joined in and the police had a much more difficult time breaking up the throngs of people!
Portland’s demonstration was met with indifference for the most part. One lady summed it up when she said, “How does this apply to us and our city? We don’t have any more homeless.”
Needless to say, the demonstrations were the big news of the day and were all over social media. The main TV stations tried to upstage the story by having big stories from Russia and Ukraine plastered on the TV.
Andrew Weeks showed up at Venice Beach and angrily approached Sarah. “I don’t know what you think you are doing. I know you leaked the information and you're in deep shit! “
Sarah was ready for him. “I don’t know what you are talking about, Andrew. It seems to me like you are the one who is in a lot of trouble! What are you going to do now?”
Andrew looked like a deer in the headlights, scared to death and frozen in place. He had no way to prove that Sarah had leaked this information and since it had all happened on his watch, he knew she was right. He turned around and ran like his life depended on it!