Even the tiny state of Qatar has the rabble rouser Al Jazeera television channel, which is watched by more viewers in Saudi Arabia than in any other Arab country.

Calderón has refused to touch these power structures, even though everyone, from the World Bank to left wing rabble rouser and former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, agree that they are the main impediments to Mexico s progress.

Even the tiny state of Qatar has the rabble rouser Al Jazeera television channel, which is watched by more viewers in Saudi Arabia than in any other Arab country. Messages by their dissident compatriot Osama Bin Laden are periodically beamed from that channel, inciting Saudis against the royal family.

Part of such rabble rousers stock in trade is to conflate patriotism, freedom, and God.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Obviously, many of its members and leaders do subscribe to these tenets, and disapprove in private of López Obrador s rabble rousing antics.

Ancient Athens became a democracy literally, government by the people when Kleisthenes organized ordinary fisher folk and farmers into a mass rabble capable of defeating Sparta backed oligarchs.

Likewise, Peretz, a rabble rousing but effective trade unionist, surprised all when he won the Labor Party s leadership primary and then chose the defense portfolio over the treasury.

And We said to the Children of Israel after him , ' Dwell in the land and when the promise of the world to come comes to pass , We shall bring you a rabble . '

And We said to the Children of Israel after him , ' Dwell in the land and when the promise of the world to come comes to pass , We shall bring you a rabble . '

I'm stating the obvious, but I'll say it anyway a paranoid regime which exerts the majority of its energies on rabble rousing against an external threat(s) is trying to conceal its own inadequacies.

Populist rabble rousers like to stir up such resentments by ranting about foreigners who work for a pittance or not at all. But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.