"We had all thought it would be a demonstration like any other," Patríkios recalls.
Just as the settlers here, with their Baruch Goldstein celebrants, are not just any settlers, nor the anti-settlement protest held here each Friday, a demonstration like any other.
Protesters speaking to The Independent said the mixed messages from the Turkish government showed it was treating the demonstrations like "a joke".
At most public meetings across the country, according to Forest Service officials and news accounts, supporters of that kind of far-reaching measure have usually outnumbered opponents, and they have made their presence felt with demonstrations like a horn-honking parade in Market Square in Pittsburgh.
If you don't understand Twitter and would like a demonstration of its power as a newsgathering tool, the Grand Master of Twitter, Jon Gripton, is running a session in Meeting Room 5 next Tuesday at 1400.
The young man would also like a demonstration of how to put a condom on correctly.
In a talk he gave in 2007, after winning the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, he waved his arms around in demonstration, like the conductor of a symphony with a dendrite baton.
The demonstration is like a starter gun to the general election, so parliament knows it has to do something to make things different for our generation.
Moments later, the demonstration felt like a collision of political campaigns, with dueling speeches from multiple soundstages by Islamist political parties competing in the parliamentary elections: from the mainstream Freedom and Justice Party, founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, to the smaller parties founded by Salafis and the relatively liberal Center Party.
I sat in on a demonstration, wow, like a month or two ago, and came away saying, "Yeah, that's not half bad at all".
