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Perhaps it's not so much about the right to protest as it is the right to hold to ransom. If the object is merely to have one's say in a voice loud enough to be heard, that's fine. But, when it becomes a list of demands and insistence on getting one's own way, when it lasts beyond a reasonable time limit (like an hour or two - in other words when it's gone on long enough for you to have to repeat endlessly what you want to say), when it becomes a matter of breaking things for emphasis or hurting others, then clearly it is no longer just having your say but enters the realm of attempting to enforce it on everyone. There's much more to be said on this subject but it concerns things like power and government, and rights and wrongs, of means and ends, philosophy and psychology, freedom and tyranny, and I really don't want to go into that (and you wouldn't like it if I did). So I leave it where it is - a matter of drawing lines and deciding what to do when they're crossed. |
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