He was a great champion, Coppi, but to do what he did, to protest like that to get a victory for his brother, that wasn't dignified for a champion.
When the students complained that the "free speech zone" was isolated and they were not likely to get much attention, the administrator told them that "people can't really protest like that anymore," and that "this isn't really the '60s anymore".
A staged protest like that might be nothing more than pretentious, overdramatic bullshit done for the sake of the striker's mental self-image and for the chance to get his name in a fancy newspaper as a freedom fighter.
The interrogator's response, Mr. Terbil said, was: "We cannot allow protests like that to take place.
Foreign investors have pulled out and sustained environmental protests like that in Zurawlow have hampered drilling plans.
Any sign of government change through protests, like that in Ukraine, makes the Kremlin jittery, so the protests in Armenia garnered scant attention on Russian state television until Mr. Sargsyan resigned.
"Most of the people I know, when we find out about a protest like that, we think, 'Oh, well, we can't walk to that part of campus today,'" he said.
The point of protest like that is to influence other people, in the same way that Exxon will take out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, or buy a slot for a TV commercial.
We have yet to see major protests like that in America these days.
He also asked, "where is the Ombudsman when the police are being injured during these social protests, like that of the disabled, the police also have human rights".
