Protest is like a double-edged sword. Like criticism it cuts both ways. And while it serves the interests of many an opposition party or group in its bid to unseat an incumbent regime, when the tables turn around often in favour of the opposition or hard core critic, protest and criticism begins to cut and slash the new incumbent from the skin through the bones. The feeling is of course never appreciated; that is why many of yesterday’s rights activists and honest politicians have turned as dark, shady and intolerant of the opposition they used to be.
