Actually, it makes protesting much more subversive. Who takes a direct line approach knowing such a thing is possible. Damn fools don't bother to think all it will do is change tactics to something far less peaceable... Ah well. Common sense is GONE is this once great land. It's been over run by fearful men looking to hold the last threads together. At what point did government stop acting for the people and seek so much to limit the people? Stalin is rejoicing.