All in all, we're...just another brick in the wall

Witnessed this at a dahi-handi procession at a busy circle nearby. And I couldn't help thinking why dont we respect ourselves.


Present on the scene were about 2 dozen cops, at least half of them wielding automatic weapons. On one side of a the road were the dahi-handi enthusiasts, crowd gathered in large numbers to watch the loot. On other side were a group of 'I am Anna'activists from the nearby housing-societies. Since the crowds on either side had swollen, the motorable area of the otherwise 4-lane road was reduced to half-a-lane for a couple of hours.
The cops supposedly here to see over the security, were busy making way for oncoming vehicles as cars and bikes honking horns did not seem to have any effect on the crowds. And common to see here were 3-riders-on-2-wheelers, cars driving on the wrong side of the raod, bikes driven on the footpath, cars parked smack in the middle of the road. And all that the cops, the otherwise all-mighty policewala whom we never want to confront, could do was request the crowds, both kinds, who were here for a greater cause, to give way. They could not chance a public outrage here...sensitive issues both, cultural celebration and democratic protests. Such is the power it comes with when aam-junta is on the roads, but as one line in a movie famously said 'With great powers, comes great responsibilities'.

Left me wondering, which one of the 2 'might of numbers' is justified? Wasn't the real aam-aadmi, the one stuck in jam, the one on neither side of the crowd anyway suffering?
With the Gandhi-topi widely available at every chowk now, its easy to get our head in an 'I AM ANNA' , but it's a different matter to get Anna, the idea, into our heads.

P.S - "Another Brick in the Wall" is the title of three songs on Pink Floyd's 1979 album, The Wall