Policing costs, protesting, parasites and etymology
The etymology of the word Protest is ‘to bear witness’.
However it feels to me that in this last decade, thanks in part to broadcast and print media, protesting has come to mean ‘the wasting of public money’.
Outrage is informed not by cause and public concern. Instead protest is reported in terms of its costs to resolve or to police in response.
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