Amos, your first point is well taken. If there had been no demonstration then accusations of apathy would have been justified. Still, I think it's important to look at why and how this issue brought the people to the streets, and to ask what they really want to accomplish. I'm not so sure about the second point, although it's true that I did not expand the Good Guy V. Bad Guy paragraph sufficiently. I suspect that quite a lot of readers will focus on that paragraph and gloss over the rest of the piece. We'll see...