Disruption with unknown author

From the News and Observer,

I just love it when a news paper print Editorial Opinion, and use the name of Staff Editorial, To me it scream we are to much of a coward to but our name on it.

If the three gay-rights protesters who barged into the state House of Representatives chamber on Thursday thought they were somehow advancing their cause, they were sadly mistaken. Legislators, and the public, understand and even appreciate principled dissent - such as that expressed by a larger group of activists who demonstrated outside the Legislative Building that day - but they don't cotton to outright disruption. So, in addition to getting arrested, the three committed a counterproductive act.

They also escalated a tactic that's been used before in the current legislative session. Twice, protesters in the visitors galleries have interrupted business on the floor. One of those incidents, late last month, led to the arrest of the NAACP's state president. Taking protests to the chamber floor intensifies the potential for confrontation. It vents anger and frustration but otherwise accomplishes nothing.

Really, now I guess all those in your face action from Citizens all across the country did nothing for them. When those three Activist got arrested at the NCGA, they made local, state, and nation, just maybe international news feeds. Since at the Rally there was all most no press coverage at all, unlike the Press Coverage when Return American was on the lawn of the Halifax Mall.

Counter-production, I think not. It got a coward in the N&O press room, to write this editorial after all.