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I have never attended a protest and this usually boils down to:
- I did not know of one until it was pasted on the news.
- Some turn nasty - I do not want my head kicked in by either side or by those in uniform.
- If I travel there, where would I park my car?
- I need to get a day off work.
- The missus would 'protest' at me, refer to point 2.
- Protests, petitions, violence, peace - simply put, anything short of hostile takeover has been shown to be little effective unless near election if your REALLY REALLY lucky.

Basicly, I do give a f***, but those who are protested against seem so give each one of us a f***, day in, day out. It's simply too painful to walk, let alone attend such events.
(FunOnABun Smears lard on you!, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 16:34, 1 reply)

Which also kind of illustrates one of my other points...
We, in this country, do not suffer enough for anyone to fight and/or die for change.

What I mean is, if this was America in the 1950s and you were black (you may already be black, I don't know. I'm not black so lets pretend I am...), and you'd spent the best part of your life being called a nigger, being forced to attend black only schools, being forced to sit at the back of the bus, never getting decent jobs and basically living as a third class citizen, and there was a civil rights protest, would you really give a shit about where to park your car, or getting a day off work?

My point is, I'm sure you do care but maybe you just don't care enough.

Incidentally, I've never been on a protest march either, for exactly the reasons you described.
( PMGT -Bacon., Tue 16 Nov 2010, 3:32, closed)