Does it matter that the Americans on the list were all Democrats/progressives with many holding elected offices?
Maybe the list should have been longer so that we could get a fine-grained impression.
These people were marching with a permit. They were trying to preserve a park and prevent houses from being torn down -for a parking lot. Reagan hated them. One guy was later killed, but I'm gathering you'd say he was taking his chances.
The guy on the far left of this pic has been arrested many times, often for anti-war protests, but was acquitted of the most serious charges. He did go on to do other things as well, wrote books, held office. Through no fault of his own, he defines the spit on Obama within DU. I'm guessing he belongs in your "rogues gallery" as well, because he never did "shut up".
The people who put up this banner without permission now face charges and possibly years in prison. They didn't "shut up".
I'd like to go on with hundreds more examples, and to spread it to international coverage, but given the status of those in your "rogues gallery" it's not likely you'd cut minor players any slack. So I'll just end with this, the consequences of your POV for non-violent civil disobedience:
The police have entered Idindakarai village for the first time since the protest has begun last year searching for the leaders, Kocherry said. “They have been publicly announcing all the households to push Udayakumar out to the streets and not provide shelter to any of the leaders. They have been conducting a search raid in all the houses. They have been also announcing that if Udayakumar was found in any of the houses, the whole family would be encountered to death.”
http://ens-newswire.com/2012/09/11/two-dead-in-protest-of-indias-largest-nuclear-power-plant/
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