The 2003 protests were in a weird time. The Internet was a thing, yet the old media still controlled the image to a large extent. There were hundreds of thousan

The 2003 protests were in a weird time. The Internet was a thing, yet the old media still controlled the image to a large extent. There were hundreds of thousands of protestors in large cities, but it was pretty consistently under-reported. Today it would be impossible to ignore something that big, it would show up on social media. To people arguing these are "arrests", well funny the arrested are just let go when they ask for a lawyer. It's an intimidation tactic. The rubberhosing and disappearing will come too, when that's deemed an acceptable intimidation tactic. It's going to backfire in cities with popular support for the protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmsFzEtK7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmsFzEtK7U