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Old November 16th 03, 05:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default The UK march agaimst Bush

So WHO are all these people who demonstrate?


I think your subsequent sentence:-

trade union demonstrators, animal
rights activists, environmentalists etc


gives the answer you were seeking, i.e. the usual rent-a-mob suspects.

People are demonstrating all the time about all manner of things,


Really?

I bet you if you asked around your friends, you might be surprised.


I have already stated that, amongst my friends, NONE of them has ever been on a
demonstration. Now that I think of it, the same applies to my neighbours - the
ones that I know.

they, like
me, are just getting on with their own lives and doing the best they can to
create a secure future for their families.


You think demonstrators don't do that as well?


Not at the same time that they are demonstrating!
Which is why I started commenting on this thread: these people are most likely
going to cost me a day's pay on the day them demonstrate.


But I do agree with
their right to demonstrate, and I believe far more people are exercising
that right than you suppose.


A 100,000 or even a million or so - hardly a significant number when compared
with the population as a whole. Try as you will, all the hype against Bush and
the war cannot change the basic facts.

I also believe that they can make a difference.
Like the one that's going to happen this week.


I believe in fairies too!

The difference between caring enough and not caring enough is a world of
a difference.


Well, perhaps those of us who supported the war and wish to welcome Bush should
take a day off work and demonstrate our support for the war and him. I care
passionately about the World in which I live. The anti-Bush and anti-war
brigade do not have an exclusive on this subject.

And people who don't care enough shouldn't complain should their smug
existences ever get tossed upside down -- because it will have happened
in THEIR names.


The war did happen "in my name", which is why I take exception to those "not in
my name" twits. Just because we don't take to the streets with "in my name"
banners etc. does not mean our views are invalid or that we don't care about
the World.

Those who say "not in my name" legitimately represent nobody but themselves and
they are exaggerating their own self-importance if they claim to be speaking on
behalf of anyone else.

Marc.