[don-o]

Yes. We who are sitting at our devices can blithely wait to pass judgement. But, if I were sitting in jail after being rounded up in a mass arrest, having broken no law, I would hope that liberty lovers were raising hell on my behalf.

[sport]

I think that the lovers of liberty are. It is the alleged Conservatives that are yelling "Hang Them". With any luck, they will be the ones that the police, for one reason of another decide they don't like next.

Study the French Revolution if you want to see how fast this line of thinking can head south.