Completely agree. We must always protect the right to express our views and protest. Its the definition of "peaceful" which is where peoples views diverge. Sitting on a road doing nothing is obviously peaceful, but if you are blocking roads, emergency vehicles, trains trying to get to power...
This is about where I am at, I find their tactics whilst in the first few instnces it was great and bought attention to the oil / sea licences issue that the government swept under the carpet whilst other topics were in the news. But now they are just harming regular people and that I can't...