By Erik A. Elo and John Gorenfeld .
Good protests are hard to come by nowadays.
In the past year, we've seen students on the Quad dressed up like Subcommandante Marcos, burning cheap incense in a rather indirect attempt to topple the Partido Revolucionario Institucional party. Women have marched through Central Park, taking back the night as usual. This is well and good, but it all seems so innocuous. This kind of imaginative, chemically induced approach to public protest dates back to the Boston Tea Party, when, high on English Breakfast tea, patriots hurled loads of the overtaxed beverage into the bay. Moments later, a security guard spotted them driving off into the mist to the south.