Demonstrations are the means by which a vocal minority attempts to rule the majority and show the hate many people have for their majority rulers. Thailand,Greece,Pakistan and France are prime examples.
The other way of showing this displeasure,by the public,is in the courts. In Australia the police have never been popular. To a certain extent criminals are considered under-dogs and the police brutal and corrupt.
In a recent casse in Western Australian,(The Weekend Australian,14-15,03.09. p.4),“The aquittal of a father and two sons on charges of bashing police in a brawl that left one (officer) partially paralysed causing the West Australian police commissioner to warn of resignations from the force.”A taser gun was used and one of the families lawyers,Michael Tudori,said “the jury’s verdict was unanimous in that the police used excessive force;that’s how and why they were aquitted”.
Many years ago race riots occurred in Brixton in London and gangs of Africans roamed the streets fighting with the police. Civil liberties groups and the press were,as usual,up in arms against the police conduct,it was considered that they were using excessive force. The police in the end had had enough and the commissioner withdrew all police from the area,which was left in the hands of the rioters.
The press and the civil liberties groups soon changed their tunes and the police returned to bring back law and order.
If the public do not support the police the police need not protect the public.
A more important issue is anti-terrorism laws and civil liberties. A significant proportion of the judiciary and civil libertarian groups believe the the government is too harsh on possible terrorists and laws contravene human rights. So you must in future accept a certain number of deaths from ‘incidents’and not complain about failure of the secret services to do their job.
