Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
Just because some people didn't get arrested for holding a placard (accepted) doesn't make it ok that others were. Is that the only argument? Ah but not everyone was arrested......
Since you finally answered the question...

The argument made was that the powers in place were being used to stop protests.

You've accepted protests were allowed.

A small minority of protestors were arrested.

Do you now accept that maybe, just maybe, those arrests were nothing to do with the new powers and maybe due to having credible intelligence that the planned protests by that small group may not have been as peaceful as claimed?