The more potential trouble-makers the Syrians have under their thumbs, the greater will be their leverage over Israel.
The Mayor of Prague described the protesters as professional trouble-makers and said their actions had angered the people of Prague.
Strasbourg's courts have handed out unusually severe sentences of up to two years' imprisonment to the few young trouble-makers unlucky enough to get caught (only a dozen arrests were made).
What helped the police do their job was that a number of known trouble-makers within loyalism were off the streets.
Since then, whenever there is a peep from the camps, politicians line up to deliver ritual denunciations of Palestinian trouble-makers and their schemes to destabilise the country.
The real divide is less, the challengers say, toadies versus trouble-makers, or loyalists against usual suspects.
The unliberal regarded the largely pliant tribal chiefs as the true representatives of Africa and the educated blacks as power-hungry trouble-makers.
Moreover, since September the West has been notably tough on trouble-makers.
Northerners - Tajiks, or Uzbeks for example - often regard the Pashtuns in the south as trouble makers who get what they deserve.
Large teams of officers in full riot gear took control of parts of the City of London when they were met by a small number of trouble-makers.
But the law is consistent in one respect: the government has tailor-made each district to reward loyal politicians and punish trouble-makers.
The trouble with this sober and sensible-sounding approach, in the eyes of Mr Aznar's image-makers, was that if you go by opinion polls it was not winning over enough voters.
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