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Laws don't prevent riots. If anything the opposite, they bottle anger until it explodes. But they do make it easier to demonize rioters.
by JulianMorrison 12y ago
Laws don't prevent riots. If anything the opposite, they bottle anger until it explodes. But they do make it easier to demonize rioters.
- intopieces 12y agoSometimes they do. For example, in Spain, they protested with holograms instead of with their bodies because of a law the banned protests outside of public buildings.
- pvaldes 12y agoThis is not a valid example. You said it. They protested, pacifically, and now they can't. A protest is a basic right that is (was?) granted by the constitution. When pacific protest is automatically equaled to riot, just because, then we have a big problem here: Constitution is not legal anymore.
- KajMagnus 12y agoThat's not a valid example. The laws didn't stop any protest, instead they caused a hologram protest — that protest wouldn't have happened at all, were it not for the laws.