This guy isn’t a hero. He’s a damned thug that destroyed property.
Yep. If he was protesting taxes he’d be a hero. Personal freedom? Not so much.
So did the colonial patriots who flung tea into the harbor at Boston.
I’m sure the Tories of their day looked down on them for destruction of property.
A government employee should fear the wrath of the citizenry if he wrongs the citizenry, not the other way around.