Protests are as pointless as trying to nail jelly to wall.

I agree.

Ghandi did peacefully it by "Showing them the error of their ways", symbols are much more powerful than an unorganised crowd.




Take the plasticine action group protest a couple of weeks back where 800 middle england grannies got arrested en masse for their principles, TV scenes of struggling protesters resisting arrest. Seen so often... zero impact

Ghandi would have organised it differently

same 5,000 or what ever people all with blank placards standing silently....
One person steps forward to the police, writes the offending message on their placard, Stands there gets arrested is very very cooperative, crowd claps or boos or does something polite in unison.
Wait 30 seconds, rinse and repeat.

You've got them by the goolies, only 1 person is breaking the law at any time.
(Of course if we leave the ECHR, then they can do mass arrests for carrying a blank placard, so you'd then have to think of something else)

Do that live on social media, you've got enough people there to string it out for 8 hours, people would flock to it just to have a go, it would go on for weeks.