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Agree, the optics aren't good. Worth considering: breaking into the building is reported to have taken hours, and police was apparently absent while that was g

• underthebus 7y ago
  The government might have let them do it knowing how badly that would reflect on the movement. That does mean they organise it themselves, which looks far fetched. Having a single guy infiltrated to hang the flag? Maybe. However it seems it's not first time. It's a common strategy to let a protestation movement burn itself and that's why discipline and well-thought out strategy is important.