And many parties will be working to make sure that incident does occur. The authorities- perhaps purely out of stupidity, or perhaps with intent – have positioned themselves and the protesters at a point of a transient unstable equilibrium.

All it takes is one person, one event, to open the door and allow the oxygen to feed the the flames- leading to the backdraft and flashover.

We have no leadership attempting to calm the situation, instead the White House is handing our free gasoline to everyone.

All we can do is wait for someone to open that door. And it seems inevitable that someone WILL open that door.