Protest and civil disobedience

While I'm totally unsympathetic to the truckers blocking the US-Canadian border at several points because they object to COVID vaccination requirements, I understand the place that public demonstrations, including those that break laws, has in Democracies. I'm old enough to recall the end of apartheid in America and the demonstrations by civil rights supporters. Martin Luther King and many others were arrested and jailed for their protests (which I was sympathetic to, if a bit too young to participate in). The point here is that even Gandhi and MLK knew that civil disobedience has consequences.

Now, some of the truckers have been arrested and their vehicles may be impounded and confiscated. Perhaps these anti-vax protesters see themselves as modern-day Gandhis and MLKs, who both favored non-violent protest and accepted the unjust punishment they endured for their causes. If so, they need to be sure that they and their followers remain non-violent, or their protests, like those at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, will graduate to insurrections that dishonor Gandhi and King. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/americas/canada-truckers-protests-covid-sunday/index.html