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"Robin May" wrote in message
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Allow me, if I may, to reply.
Robin, you seem to have some difficulty in accepting a consistency
between 2 totally consistent and coherent statements:
You have misunderstood the post to which I was replying.
1. Anti-war feeling is lower than it has been hyped-up to be.
Robert Griffith didn't say this. What he said was that he didn't
believe anti-war feeling was very strong. He said the reason he
didn't believe this was because the demonstration was only a million
strong and the population of the UK who could demonstrate was much
bigger than that.
2. There are other ways of making one's anti-war feelings known
other an public street demonstrations.
But he himself only recognised anti-war feeling when it was expressed
at a public street demonstration.
Hang on sunshine! Please stop twisting my words to suit your beliefs.
Marc summed up the points I was making admirably. Clearly I failed to
get them across to you, but then maybe that says more about your
ability to understand an opposite view than my inability to articulate
my thoughts!
One final go, I believe:
a. the active anti-war/antiBush support is exaggerated
Based on what? Speculation or in your own words:
"Given the total population of the UK, I do not recall the country
grinding to a halt in a way it would have done so, had most of its adult
population joined a demonstration."
Neither is credible.
So on what evidence do you make point a?
As I have said before, it is simply arrogance on your part to make
dismissive statements like "Neither is credible". Why not? Give me your
evidence if you believe it so important as to justify your approval of this
demonstration.
b. there are other ways to express ones disagreement rather than
participating in yobbish demonstrations! yep yobbish!
So now you are twisting your own words, noone mentioned yobbish before,
now you feel the need to add it, sorry, it does not help you out of your
hole.
In what way am I twisting my words? Nobody may previously have used the
words "yobbish" . So what? That is my view of many (not all) who flock to
demonstrations (of any kind). As another poster said, most of us have better
things to do with our time than inflict our opinions on the wider public.
Robert Griffith