Sir, – William Hederman's article about protest ("Protest works – if it breaks rules", Weekend, December 13th) is a significant contribution to the debate about democracy and power.
If you take away protest, and the right to campaign on issues without being hounded or negatively labelled in all sorts of way, democracy is a hollow sham.
Protest works at many different levels (just as power does not reside only in the Oireachtas). Protest does not always have to break rules to work – but it does need to be imaginative, appropriate to the campaign and the stage it is at, and also to the level of support. – Yours, etc,
ROB FAIRMICHAEL,
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Belfast.