I think people have lost the concept of "protesting". As the years go by it becomes more about acting like fools instead of getting your point across in an intelligent way. I think its interesting that the homebirth rallies and protests barely rate a mention in the 'crazy protester' stakes but when you get something like this it gets out of control pretty quickly. Are these protests doing anything but closing people's ears to the cause because of how theyve been handled? No. I dont even bother watching news stories of it, my immediate thought is "Yeah yeah blah blah blah dont care to watch people acting silly" and switch over.

From what you've all said the root cause is something that definately needs to be addressed, its just unfortunate that bad behaviour overshadows the reason for protesting in the first place.