> Protest is popularly considered a spontaneous, organic outpouring of popular sentiment
It is sometime this, but it is also popularly known as an organized struggle against an oppressive power. Examples being, Ghandi's independence movement in India, the suffrage movements for the right of women to vote, and the civil rights movements in the 60s. These were all highly organized, premeditated and engineered to achieve specific objectives.
> increasingly protest is being used by hostile forces
Here you'd have to define 'hostile forces', because it sounds like you are defining it as 'anyone who disagrees with the current power structure', which would be all protesters because that what protests are.
It is sometime this, but it is also popularly known as an organized struggle against an oppressive power. Examples being, Ghandi's independence movement in India, the suffrage movements for the right of women to vote, and the civil rights movements in the 60s. These were all highly organized, premeditated and engineered to achieve specific objectives.
> increasingly protest is being used by hostile forces
Here you'd have to define 'hostile forces', because it sounds like you are defining it as 'anyone who disagrees with the current power structure', which would be all protesters because that what protests are.