The ongoing occupations, street battles, and riots by mobs of protesters in Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela are not justified.
I don't care for any of those governments. And I supported the ouster of the dictatorships in each of those countries. But using the same tactics against an elected government - which plans to hold the next elections on schedule, in the usual way - is wrong.
Parliamentary systems are a little different than ours, in that public protest could force an early election. But the protests themselves need to remain peaceful, or they lose their moral claim.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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