[JimSEA]

You are correct. The poor, if they appear at all, are rent-a-crowd participants. Look at Indonesia, the Univeristy students and the professionals, trained and equiped by rich Arabs, start things with the urban poor going along for the gain from looting. The rural poor just hope to be ignored.

[mitchbert]

And it's no different in our world. Whenever there's a significant protest in Toronto some enterprising reporter manages to find a couple of homeless folks who have no idea why they're marching other than to get the dinner chit.