Perhaps Aiden we should have protests about unruly protests.
A demo demo so to speak.
I am afraid many younger people are copyists and will start to think
their point is not made unless a building is burnt down, but not before
the goods inside are removed safely.
I wonder if the school teachers are to blame for this trend ?
Is it sort of do things my way not the way your father might have done it.

Two years of National Service will filter out the indoctrinated stupidity & a healthier mentality will ensue !

Mhaze,
I think you're probably correct about Shaun Burgoyne. I'm not sure how much malice was in it, but these days there is such a thing as a dangerous tackle. Burgoyne did get fined, but the rest of us are left scratching our heads as to why he's not been given at least a week or two worth of holiday to self-reflect upon dangerous play.

Individual said;
Two years of National Service will sort it out !

OH ! YOU CAN'T SAY THAT !

Oh dear they will have your guts for garters.
National service.
Why it it is even worse than the Police Force !
They might even give them a gun !
Oh dear.

I would love you guys to tell NRL and AFL players who knelt down to support a cause that they are soft.

They would look at you, and look at each other,and then piss themselves laughing.

And then you could say, it is not your fault, it is the fault of leftist scum, lesbians, homosexuals, academics and communists.

Then the AFL and NRL would collapse from laughter.

Yep, I reckon that is what would happen.

Bazz,
I mentioned that at the time, I didn't understand how closely related the right to protest being seen as important was to knowing how to protest peacefully. From your reply, I see that you still don't. You fail to appreciate that it's a two way process.

Those who turn protests violent are traitors to their cause. But in the vast majority of cases, they didn't set out to be traitors. The violence wasn't planned, but was a spontaneous reaction to police using heavy handed techniques on them. One very clear recent example of that is when a peaceful protest suddenly became violent in response to the police trying to clear the area so Trump could do that press conference in front of the church.

The Left and Right have very different approaches to law and order: the Left seek to create conditions conducive to good behaviour, while the Right prefer to rely on harsh penalties to discourage bad behaviour. The Right's approach isn't actually more effective, but is easier to communicate, and so far it has tended to be politically popular. It's too soon to say whether this will shift public opinion.