both the objectives of the protest and its expediency to achieve those objectives were getting scrutinized , the will , ability and motives of the protestor were being questioned , a variety of opinions about it were getting expressed , there were some that agreed , some that disagreed , a few that thought of it as frivolity , a couple that saw it as some kind of revolution , there were the optimists , the pessimists , the skeptics , the cynics , the proponents , the opponents , the fence sitters , all of it and all of them , coming together to envelope this recent event in a colorful kaleidoscope of public sentiment , debate and gossip .