RABBLE ROUSING ON FACEBOOK

A man has been convicted of posting "offensive and menacing messages" about Gregory Lundy on Facebook.  The judge went on to make the following comment.

"The problem is when you rouse the rabble it is very hard to put them back into their houses and this country above all has learnt the lesson of that”

On the face of it the judges comments seem quite accurate. However there are experts who know how and when to switch the rabble on and then switch them of again.

2 Samuel 15:10-12

¹⁰But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
¹¹And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
¹²And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.