Others objected to the authorities' tactics.
Mr Fleckenstein thinks the authorities' tactics are eventually doomed to failure.
The authorities' tactics on Monday indicated that they were resolved to stifle unrest — starting with the refusal to issue a permit for a nationwide demonstration.
Favela residents say the authorities' tactics in getting rid of crime have been particularly brutal.
In effect, this misdirected onus reinforces the Palestinian Authority's tactic of stalling and avoiding.
Instead, the group fell victim to one of the authorities' newest tactics for quelling dissent: confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software.
Once LUMS students realized that major Pakistani news networks had not been able to cover their protest, they took it upon themselves to document the authorities' intimidation tactics and their own attempts at resistance.
Then the authorities changed tactics and began occupying select favelas with rookie cops, expelling the gangs and trying to pacify these neighborhoods for the people there raising families and running shops — and ducking bullets that pierce the walls of their homes.
Although his followers preferred to call their philosophy Socratic rather than Ramist, in order to avoid the accusation of slavish trust in his authority, this tactic was not very successful.
Ms. Mirza called the Indian sports authority's tactics a "blatant humiliation of Indian womanhood".
