If the government denies law when inconvenient, then we're all free from it. The same law that protects you from them, protects them from you. Take away the social contract and its gone.

Without protest for greivances, the only option for the agreived is escalation. If governments think manhandling protestors is hard work, its nothing compared to civil disobedience. Civil disobedience escalates into mobs and it goes on from there.

Protest is a form of pressure release, and a means to obtain redress of greivances.

That's all Cons are even capable of. At least the liberals pretend they care while they do it.