" As the time for the conference drew on, it became apparent that the protestors had no standing place there.

"Balfour, iii. 386.] consciousness of weakness, a fear of provoking enmity, and an attention to private interest; and they show that the protestors, if they really sought to save the life of the monarch, were yet more anxious to avoid every act or word which might give offence to his adversaries.

The royalists obtained the name of public resolutioners; their opponents, of protestors or remonstrants.

For the ministers were still divided into resolutioners and protestors, and the virulence of this religious feud appeared to augment in proportion as the parties were deprived of real power.

The resolutioners were the more numerous, and enjoyed a greater share of popular favour; but the protestors were enemies of Charles Stuart, and therefore sure of the protection of the government.

Hence it happened that in every struggle for the possession of churchesand such struggles continually happened between the two partiesthe protestors were invariably supported against the voice of the people by the swords of the military.

Unable to draw out a single, simplified rationale that encompasses the logic of each and every protestor, traditional media storytellers conclude that there is no logic at all.

(Just as I am writing this section, a newscaster on CNBC, reporting from a WTO demonstration, is condescendingly laughing at the word 'neo-liberal' on a placard, believing that the teen protestor holding it has invented the term!)