Protest is now illegal. You will be brutally bashed by the police and locked up regardless how just the cause.

They are and have always been the blunt instrument with which the state monopoly on violence is maintained and exercised.

We are also subject to random roadside tax extortion based on whatever the fiction of the day happens to be. I would actually prefer the open faced honest corruption of simply being asked for a bribe to go on with my day ala India or Thailand. At least we don't need to pretend the interaction is anything other than what it is.