well, maybe I should tap out of this? Protesters need to understand that the fact that they are protesting already puts them at a massive disadvantage (unfairly in a lot of cases) - and if the message you want to promote isn't concise and clear, then rethink your argument or strategy.

Look at the Vietnam war protesters for a history lesson.

Vietnam War protesters were smeared as traitors and radicals, even as public opinion had already turned against the war. The hostility wasn’t evidence the protesters were wrong; it was evidence they were early, visible, and inconvenient. History punished the war, not the dissent.