Indeed, everybody has been going along with sanctions of nations and organizations with the wrong political opinions, up to and including frozen bank accounts or even prison for so much as financially supporting those nations and organizations. But that was terrorism, so anything goes, right? Up here in Canada, the Conservatives proposed, and the Liberals enacted, a law (Bill C-51) to classify interference with "critical infrastructure" as an act of terrorism. But that was targeted at those pesky pipeline protesters, so anything goes, right?

So now the shoe is firmly on the other foot, and I can't help but wonder if folks will finally realize that disruptive protests are a necessary component of democracy, or if we're just going to keep going in circles because the entrenched politicians stay in power when their voter bases are at eachothers' throats.