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Why Can't We Scream In Public

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 I wrote this blog entry over 10 years ago. What I was addressing at the time was the "silent screamers" that live among us, the helpless, the voiceless, and while they are still there, people are now beginning to scream in public, and often. Not a week goes by when there isn't a protest, a rally, a gathering of outraged people shouting and yelling and screaming their frustrations and anger at life, the government, the farmers, one another; you name it, they're making a loud and angry noise. Over the weekend we saw the Freedom coalition block the Southern motorway for several hours. This only caused many drivers, people that were heading out for a happy Saturday drive, to shout angrily back at them, and hurl "objects and abuse"; literally the drivers began to scream publicly at total strangers. Is screaming in public the correct way to earn freedom? Anger spreads quickly, so does frustration, foul language and "screaming in public". There is a Bibl