I wanted to rewrite this post because my last one had a lot of on-the-fly edits and I think I can make this cleaner.
Here's what we should do:
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Find people in your neighborhood/community who are sick of masks and want a change and invite them to participate. Start a facebook group or get people on a massive text chain or something like that.
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Decide the dates and times you plan to do this. Get people to go in groups of at least 15, the bigger the better. That's disruptive, and frankly, people can go in all day in different shifts and keep it going.
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Decide on the grocery store you wish to target.
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Go in with masks on, grab a cart, and grab all the perishable goods (meat, cheese, milk, eggs, etc.) along with a few other things to make replacing things more time consuming.
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Place your list with the demands on the top of the cart filled with items (it will say "replace your 'masks required signs' with a 'we support your constitutional rights--no masks required' signs and then these actions will stop.")
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Walk your cart to the front of the store.
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Leave it there and go home.
This way we:
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Avoid physical confrontations
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Avoid being identified so we can be charged with trespassing, etc.
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Create real disruption for these business owners forcing them to change.
In my state you cant be charged or arrested for trespassing unless you remain unlawfully so the store is asking you to leave, which they onviousky can, and you continue to refuse to leave. Officer shows up, you still refuse to leave, cuffs so strike that one off the charges board. Only thing i can see is what, here, we call criminal mischief. If you wete to damage the good, perishables, because of leaving them in the cart for so long but even then.... I dont see a prosecutor taking that up. People leave carts and decide to leave a store all the time. I like the plan though!
Bingo. Fill up your cart. Put the sign on top of it. And leave. You didn't steal. You didn't trespass by coming without a mask. You didn't provoke confrontation. You just quietly made a difference.
Police response is several minutes. It takes a few seconds to leave the packed cart by the counter and walk out.