https://insidecostarica.com/2012/11/14/president-defends-response-to-protest-second-protest-planned-for-tomorrow/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://insidecostarica.com/2012/11/14/president-defends-response-to-protest-second-protest-planned-for-tomorrow/#comment-2354 Mary Hogan Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:03:37 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=4322#comment-2354 When a country’s leaders fail to earn the respect of the populace (an egotistic belief that your little people, citizens, are fools who need your superior intelligence to guide them) and are seen as acting in their own interest through corruption or power–IMO 2 things occur almost simultaneously: the intellectual elite in power try to restore power through more [absurd] laws to keep their citizenry under control; and, the citizenry throws law and order to the wind–often expressed as simple disregard for the law (passive-agressiveness) or outright revolution/anarchy. What is happening here in CR now–marches and protests are only the beginning.

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