Would everyone think it's OK to bring a beer wagon along to go Christmas caroling?
That's silly. Of course it's not OK to bring beer caroling! It's much too cold to go caroling with beer. You need hot buttered rum, hot chocolate with Baileys, or gluhwein when you go caroling.
You do have a point! And I should have specified that I was referring to the generic "you" in most of my post, since you did make it clear you thought open container laws were minor.
(As a side note, though, while I competely support the right of people to protest laws they feel are wrong, if the extent of their protest is violating that law I don't have much sympathy for them. So if there really are people out there protesting open Container Laws by drinking while Trick or Treating, I hope they are trying to fight it other ways as well - and not just by drinking when caroling at Christmas, either, but by actively trying to get the laws changed. Otherwise I really view it more as them rationalizing the fact that they are breaking the law.)
--thus my bit about a good reason to break a law is not "because I want to." Protesting might include breaking the law (often it does not need to) but absolutely should include more (letter writing, electing peopel you believe will work to change thigns the way you see fit, etc.). 
when I saw myself quoted I jsut ASSumed you meant me (who BTW hates beer--I am so not German
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I've got a nice chilled bottle of chard open (La Crema) - anybody want some?
Glühwein is German mulled wine.
