Now that I have been thinking about this replies exchange & especially the above reply of your’s, I come back to reality of whom I really am- person that tries to stay peaceful & calm, but strong, in the face of people doing crazy & dangerous BLANK around me or directly against me. Examples-
Like I said other thread, when I first started bicycling in my own community to the nearest city, pickup trucks would play chicken with me for kicks. Only thing I did was call the cops & they shut that down in a heart beat.
I also have had an car driver try to block my cycling from continuing down the roadway, to fight me, I calmly just continue in the grass on the side of the roadway. They I guess give-up on fighting me, as I point-out the camera always recording (in 350-degrees) to another location, on the top my helmet.
As a long time protester I have had my former truck’s, when I was still driving, license plate recorded by the police, & stayed calm & simply carpooled & we all parked far away & walk to protests. But that is nothing, have had Homestead, Fl.’s Rodeo supporters threaten me, throw stuff at me, spit on me, use ugliest language at me & worst at the fellow female protesters. Sometimes right next to me, only stop after a decade of such behavior & realizing I was not going anywhere. The first time I ever did that rodeo protest threatened by state police, payed to work that rodeo every year, with being arrested, if I had not left, then I would been arrested, even though they had no right to do so. I stayed calm, but concerned, so I walked away, after talking to former organizer, she said that they had no right to do anything & she talked to the city’s police, that have the right of regulating activist. We went back to protesting, the state police never talked to us that year. Of course it took that decade for the state & city police to stop harassing us, especially, when I hand them copies of the sheriff’s cellphone number, that I speak with every year, before protesting. One-time one of those supporters drove their huge pick-up so close to my cycling, to protest the rodeo, that I almost was hit. I simply E-Mailed The Homestead Rodeo Association telling them, they do not want me to be hit, remember I had one best video recording, & PICs taking, camera on the market.
The point is when I maintain my calm, peaceful, but strong, self, I am better at addressing/thinking things through under such situations that can be extremely dangerous, especially if I reacted with anger, let alone violence. I am like everyone else, plenty situations where I have to calm myself down, before reacting in anger-violence.