On Monday, shortly after Mr. Jonathan's victory was announced by election officials, mobs of mostly young and unemployed people went on a rampage in northern Nigeria, attacking symbols of authority, local notables and traditional and religious leaders.
When it comes to defending the country in an attack, the line of authority goes from the president to the secretary of defense.
The shadow education secretary, Labour's Tristram Hunt, told the programme: "It is schools which are having to pick up the costs of the bedroom tax, the attacks of local authority spending, the attacks on social care.
You can't attack freedom of expression, attack the authority of the state in this way," he was quoted as telling reporters.
"Marquez admitted that the attacks were designed to maximize the number of casualties that could be inflicted," the affidavit said, adding that Marquez drew a diagram of the planned attack for authorities.
Historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote that the Reformation had paved the way for atheists by attacking the authority of the Catholic Church, which in turn "quietly inspired other thinkers to attack the authority of the new Protestant churches".
"They've systematically attacked people in positions of authority.
Still, the crisp attack and authority of the dancing in "Club Havana" were largely missing in "Caravanserai" and "Tito on Timbales".
In 1980, Mr. Fauvet and an editorial writer, Phillipe Boucher, were prosecuted under an obscure law on charges of "attacking the authority and independence of the judiciary" by publishing articles that criticized court rulings in a political scandal.
On 24 March, several Marines and paratroopers were wounded in Fallujah when insurgents attacked the ceremony for transfer of authority.
