A lot of social change in the world has come through protest - and especially non violent protest.
I wonder what certain Tories think of people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King etc.
I remember reading about some of the ways Gandhi was treated by the British rulers and the police under their command.
"In complete silence the Gandhi men drew up and halted a hundred yards from the stockade. A picked column advanced from the crowd, waded the ditches and approached the barbed wire stockade... at a word of command, scores of native policemen rushed upon the advancing marchers and rained blows on their heads with their steel-shot lathis [long bamboo sticks]. Not one of the marchers even raised an arm to fend off blows. They went down like ninepins. From where I stood I heard the sickening whack of the clubs on unprotected skulls... Those struck down fell sprawling, unconscious or writhing with fractured skulls or broken shoulders
Offering non violent resistance. I suspect that some people think he should have been locked up for even wanting to protest.
I do wonder how much school history covers social change and the way it's been achieved.