On Point: Flash Mobs, Tea Parties, and Tocqueville

On Point: Flash Mobs, Tea Parties, and Tocqueville
People participate in a massive pillow fight at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Feb. 14, 2013. Alex Ma/The Epoch Times
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In February 2009, a young man posting on a website dubbed “The Urban Prankster Network” (Headquarters for Global Agents of Stealth Comedy!) suggested a novel way to cool off the city of Austin, Texas, when the inevitable hell of a Texas summer bakes streets and fries brains: a citywide water gun and water balloon war waged by a “flash mob.”

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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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