11.   She said there had been a firebombing, several attempts at planting pipe bombs, almost daily pickets and two occasions when protesters had broken into the building.

12.   The Department of Public Safety decided last month that protesters will have to restrict their activities to an area across the street from the front of the mansion.

13.   The protesters had a grand time baiting police officers, clogging traffic, chanting slogans and acting morally outraged over issues they likely did not understand.

14.   The protesters had their say, as well.

15.   The protesters for the most part have nothing to propose.

16.   The pro-democracy protesters do not have guns, so the vests suggest that some generals may worry about an assault by rival army units.

17.   The protesters have a range of complaints.

18.   The protesters have every right to do that, and we have every right to conclude they are stupid and self-indulgent.

19.   The protesters had little but their cause in common.

20.   The protesters have freedom of speech to ridicule and mock politicians, but pie-hurling is a hostile physical encounter.