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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    My experience is when people get angry, sound reason and good judgement tends to disappear.
    It is actually the mob mentality. Schoolboys who abide by the rules and will never do anything wrong, turn into little monsters when under cover of a crowd where they would not be held personally accountable. In politics and society, we unfortunately let this mob mentality and total anarchy get out of hand without the slightest consequence to the perpetrators.

    What happened at Makana is sad and tragic and rightfully so, the police were held accountable, but nothing is being said and done about the 11 people that were murdered (including police and security officers) before the actual massacre. The gangsters who were responsible for burning down libraries and schools (can you imagine!) in last years violent protests are being rewarded in various ways instead of being in jail!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    You've got me thinking about cause and effect.

    Could it be that protest action is becoming more extreme because lawful peaceful protest has been entirely ignored by those in power of late?
    Which in turn means people have had to resort to more dramatic means to get attention and redress for their issues?

    Is the problem the result of the culture of the populace, or actually the culture of government?
    I'd be a lot more inclined to entertain this line of thought if the violent actions of protesters were aimed at institutions or property of government instead of stoning and overturning cars on highways, setting fire to soft-target infrastructure and looting foreign owned businesses etc.
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    I do think that the problem starts with government, because the whole system is not working. Government is ineffective and not doing their job.

    It is no use making new rules and laws if it is not being implemented. Why do people ignore red lights and stop streets? Because they are allowed to do so. If there is no effective policing it will just get worse. (I am not advocating for a police state though!)

    The structure of our society and our moral fibre is being influenced by bad examples who are allowed to get away with breaking the law. Kids may think that it's ok to do like their leaders and follow those bad habits.
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