Quote Originally Posted by delmbox View Post
He's not directly comparing our Government with the worst of what Russia does and he's not insulting anyone who's suffered at their hands. I think his point is that it's a bit rich to judge people for not protesting when they could get imprisoned for 10 years or worse, when we allow our Government to screw us over consistently without a peep, and we don't have those fears over us (although they're actually trying to clamp down on our rights to protest via the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill)
No they aren't. There are no restrictions on the right to protest within it.

There are consequences if you endlessly harass with noise, or block roads etc.

You are right that it is unfair to be overly critical of people's lack of protests in a country with severe penalties for it though.