WELL, THE RUSSIANS MADE THEM DO IT:  Nova Scotia Moves Quickly Using Emergency Declaration to Ban Truck Convoys and Highway Cheering, $10,000 Fine For Cheering on Roadway.

Giggle. Sure. This will end well….

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend comments:

1. Government does something unpopular to a sizable percentage of the public.
2. Public organizes a protest; people join and Assemble to express their displeasure.
3. Government cries out that the assembly is an insurrection and uses subterfuge and violence to punish the people.

Welcome to the 21st century.

Demonstrations are only for establishment-approved groups. That is, demonstrations are only okay when they’re used to cow people who oppose the establishment, not when they’re used to challenge the establishment itself.