>> Not in the US. If your protests indeed disrupt the government, or
>> traffic, or so many other things, you get in trouble.
>
> The protests are supposed to disrupt the government. It's *supposed* to be 
> OK, as long as it's peaceful.
>
> Disrupting traffic gets you in trouble for disrupting traffic, not for 
> protesting.
>
> Unfortunately, I think a great number of on-the-street level cops are 
> taking their clues from the high administrations and simply ignoring the 
> law and misusing their privileges.

I saw a thing here a while back where a group of people were protesting 
about something.  There were literally twice as many police with shields and 
guns compared to the protesters (who were armed with nothing).  The police 
were just waiting at a safe distance when suddenly the protesters started 
destroying peoples gardens and ripping out fences and trees to throw at the 
police.  The police did nothing, they just stood there.  Afterwards they 
showed the state of these peoples gardens and interviewed them, basically 
they couldn't believe it that the police did absolutely nothing to protect 
their property.

If that is "free speech" and "freedom to express your opinion", then I want 
it banned!

Mind you, the German police seem to take a very strong stance against anyone 
who tries to protest violently against those nuclear waste trains.  Someone 
has chained or cemented themselves to the train tracks, no problem, where's 
the angle grinder? ;-)

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