Tropical Soulvangelical finds this 1% business reprehensible, because it attempts to mitigate the protest vandalism that's been done, while giving protest leaders an out from apologizing for the vandalism or making amends accordingly. How does TSV and the rest of us know it was only 1% anyway? That claim TSV finds coming from just one source, and that source is unknown. But here's one way to intepret the claim that TSV doesn't think the protest leaders have considered. If truly only 1% of protestors engaged in vandalism, that TSV finds also means that 50% of -any- person engaging in such protest could end up doing vandalism. You either end up doing it or you don't. TSV has noticed the 1% statistic being used elsewhere in history, mainly by intellectualist types to essentially browbeat the commoner with, so that's what makes him skeptical. Another thing TSV finds this 1% statistic does is avoid discussion of the insults and defamations that were made which TSV will not forget, even years after the war is over. He doesn't see anyone trying to suggest that a mere 1% of protestors engaged in insults and defamation, maybe because that's a lot harder to prove. If there's ever an attempted reconciliation between the two different sides of demonstrators, TSV finds the inevitable usage of the 1% statistic to be a non-starter.