My amazing grandmother taught me the old Latin wisdom, errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum. To err is human, but to persist in the same error is diabolical.

Your reply @democrats_eu makes me wonder whether politicians exactly like you inspired the second half of that sentence.

You condemned violence against elected representatives, only after I put the images before your eyes. Then you immediately minimised it as “isolated acts”.

For 101 days, the protest has taken place on the boulevard without a single problem concerning its right to assemble, speak and criticise.

But physically preventing elected parliamentarians from entering Parliament, and abusing a respected woman MP simply trying to reach her workplace, is not dissent. It is violence.

And guess what? Now comes another fresh example of your “isolated acts”. Protesters block a city junction, surround the car of an ordinary citizen who simply wants to pass, and start striking it. What exactly is he guilty of? Trying to continue on his way?

Would you care to condemn this too, clearly and without an excuse?

I am not using the violence of some to discredit every protester. You are using the peaceful conduct of many to minimise the violence of others.

Come on, be brave and say it:

This is not dissent. It is violence.