It just dawned on me: THIS is the reason the legal establishment was so freaked out by the young girls: if their threats don't mean anything, they lose ALL their power. That is WHY the Harel brothers got such a stiff sentence. They still want to TERR

b. said:

That's correct, mockery and satire destroys authority.

 

That's how the Russian Revolution against the tsar started.

 

Some women standing in a bread line for hours started murmuring: "Why must we wait for hours, just to get some bread!"

 

The police overheard them and started beating them. The crowd got angry and retaliated; the Police called for military reinforcements.

 

The soldiers arrived, but, when they saw who the revolutionaries were--their own women--the soldiers joined the revolt, and the Tsar had to flee for his life.