You may be right that it will become accepted. I saw this thread on HN, then minutes later while browsing Internet stories came across an article today about an

You may be right that it will become accepted. I saw this thread on HN, then minutes later while browsing Internet stories came across an article today about anti-Kremlin rallies: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67U4YJ20100831 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67U4YJ20100831 Excerpt: "There are hundreds of police and to us it looks disproportionate," Thijs Berman, a Dutch member of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee, said at Triumph Square just before the rally. "It begs the question: what is such a big country as Russia afraid of?"