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No Goal

But through it all ran an uncertainty:
what were they doing there?
Brothers and sisters whom they
respected in counter-leaflets, had
begged them not to come , had
warned that such a pointless action
could only be the act of a political
infant, at best - at worst, the
cunning trap of a provocateur. The
rioters had no goal, and were reduced
to explaining their presence
by saying defiantly, I dig it.

So the boards went up on the
stores, and the store owners, frightened
after three riots since April,
came together in terror. One of
them, a friendly conscientious man,
told their decision.