That may or may not be all. Get back to me when you have a point to make *pats on head*.
(, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 0:36, Reply)
Ok, I'll bite...
So we should stick to the allocated protest areas, wave our banners for a bit, and then go home and pat ourselves on the back? Piss off. Over ONE MILLION people on the streets of London protesting the war in Iraq, and they achieved precisely fuck all.
Voting doesn't work. If anything the past year has proved that, and somehow we've ended up with a government with zero mandate, that not one single person voted for.
SO how do you suggest we bring about change? Seriously, if you think it'll help then do tell. Write to my MP? Done that, got nowhere. Write angry letters to The Times? Pfft...
Or should we just sit down, shut the fuck up, and let the rich and powerful walk all over us? Never...
(, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 9:56, Reply)
one million protesting on the streets
leaving 59 million not protesting
tell me is it maths or the concept of democratic process that escapes you cognitive grasp?
(, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 22:12, Reply)
Number of people who voted for current regime: 0
If it's numbers that count then you can keep your idea of 'democracy'.
(, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 7:15, Reply)
So a million people
from that 59 million at home you can deduct, the under 16's, the very elderly, the infirm, those that simply were unable to get to London that day. and you have over 2% of what's left turning up in London that day. Coach loads of people from hundreds of miles away turned up to represent larger groups of people that couldn't make it.
I was there and it was a massive protest, I was awestruck by the size of it. But ultimately achieved nothing. If a million people can march upon London and achieve nothing then what happens when the next million people march upon London that little bit more pissed off, believing that peaceful protest is worthless?
I disagree with violent protest, but when a million people get organised enough be in one place at the same time to protest something their government is doing, that government would be wise to at least acknowledge it. They just pretended nothing had happened.
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Peej, Sun 14 Nov 2010, 7:40,
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true enough.
but there is also a valuable concept in the "worker slowdown"- peaceful days indeed. & If a smug toff with more mouth than sense should as try to actually pat your red head, you would be wrong not get you a souvenir finger ring.
(, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 7:36, Reply)