I thought the protest yesterday, even if small, still did some good and I thought the protestors did their best in interviews under difficult circumstances. There was very little support around them and a lot of hostility. Staging the protest in a hostile neighborhood like that was brave but not effective.

However I felt the worst thing about the protest yesterday was that it was too focused on the pizza parlor thing, on CPP, Alefantis Instagrams specifically, on Welch, all the saga of pizzagate details. I don't think spirit cooking and Satanism or even the art is an effective way to address the public and bring them in - there is too much cultural relativity now and if you start out by attacking a weird artist you just sound intolerant.

I feel that it is easier to talk to people about pedogate in general and human trafficking first, then child trafficking, then pizzagate and the specifics there last. People can readily accept that slavery and human trafficking is a reality. Then child and organ trafficking is the next bitter pill. After that the specifics of pizzagate make sense. The Podesta emails don't seem like just anomalies, the art, the Satanism all fill in some of the blanks.

I guess I am overall with the pedogate term, as it has less baggage, and has a wider scope. It does not include all human trafficking, but it does including all trafficking of children, and that's a big enough challenge to work with.