Indian security forces often keep separatists away from large gatherings for fear that they'll use them as forums to criticize the Indian government and call for the repeal of drastic security laws, demilitarization and the independence of Kashmir.
Similarly, we have an administration that is simultaneously seeking to end the recession, discussing drastic changes to laws on foreclosures and energy use and completely changing the health care system.
There are a lot more white voters in the state than Hispanic ones so from a cynical, purely political perspective Brewer's actions last week probably did her some good.September is a long time ago, but the shift is surely due to in large part to Ms Brewer's having signed Arizona's drastic new immigration law.
In all three of those cases, an apparent newfound sense of seriousness and urgency – and likely fear of chaotic protests on their own streets – has led state prosecutors swiftly to announce that they were taking drastic action against law enforcement officers whom they were accusing of clear-cut wrongdoing.
With the drastic shift in law enforcement, the new challenge for advocates, legal aid providers, and county public defender's offices is making all those eligible aware of their new rights.
A tolerable standard of honesty in the force is certainly not at present attainable; but the Federal Enforcement Commissioner argues that this is the inevitable accompaniment of the unprecedented law, and he insists that no law so drastic has ever been so largely enforced.
This time it was killed by Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, who said he was unconvinced that the "drastic change" to labor laws was worth it.
And I do think that small personal problems triggered by bizarre, drastic, poorly thought out laws, like what's happening in the US currently, can snowball into negative life changing events for a massive amount of people.
They were followed by a year of non-stop economic problems, controversial labor law changes, drastic government spending cuts in health and education, and a national strike that culminated in major riots in Barcelona.
