anyone going to next weeks protests?

The most brainwashed people are the protesters...thinking that chanting a few slogans and chucking a brick through a car window is going to change anything at all. All that'll happen is that people will go to work as usual, they'll throw a few bricks, a few will get arrested and beaten the **** out of by the police (with any luck) and then it'll all be back to normal on Friday.

If they *really* wanted to do something about it, there's far better ways/means...but they all require a degree of intelligence and hard-work...both of which are a rare commodity for them.
 
Mr^B said:
The most brainwashed people are the protesters...thinking that chanting a few slogans and chucking a brick through a car window is going to change anything at all. All that'll happen is that people will go to work as usual, they'll throw a few bricks, a few will get arrested and beaten the **** out of by the police (with any luck) and then it'll all be back to normal on Friday.

If they *really* wanted to do something about it, there's far better ways/means...but they all require a degree of intelligence and hard-work...both of which are a rare commodity for them.
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The key thing about these protestors is that they seem to have no idea what they want, how it will work or what the end result would be.

That's what makes them time wasters.
 
I'm not but you have fun there. All this will be seen as is another excuse for a bit of mindless destruction.

The Times Online said:
SCOTLAND YARD is to deploy officers armed with 50,000-volt Taser stun guns to deal with violent demonstrators planning to disrupt this week’s G20 summit in London.
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drunkenmaster said:
climate change, is BS, keeping needless jobs subsidised by tax payers money, will eventually fail, constantly creating new useless jobs that aren't needed also paid by tax, will eventually fail. Protesting to keep things as they were is for the moronic people of the world with no idea how it really works, or what needs to change.
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Not that I don't agree with the latter part of this, but I think maybe you don't quite grasp how the economy works. I'm not saying it's right, but it's the reason why this industry is always 'propped' up.

As for the former part about CC being BS. Lol, prove it. You talk to me like I don't know what I'm talking about. Not that I can remember much about the facts and figures anymore - quite frankly the subject bored the crap out of me - but you simply complaining that it's rubbish with your half-truths isn't going to convince me otherwise. I spent my whole undergrad dissertation looking at anthropogenic climate change and its representation in the media - essentially why people like you deny it. You're wasting your breath if you think you're going to suddenly make me stop and go "Oh noes, I was wrong!"

The only way ACC could be 'wrong' is if the fundemental theories are suddenly falsified, which is incredibly doubtful considering the amount of research by people smarter than you and I on the subject.
 
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Azagoth said:
...and just how much CO2 is being pumped into the atmosphere by these bloody hippys as they all make their way to London. Now considering that quite a few are coming here from all over the World I'm hazarding a guess that they aren't arriving here on the backs of giant swans.
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they save money by not using soap and hot water

to be honest..any protest thats organised where ordinaray working people have to be advised not to go to work as they may be attacked for doing their jobs is a protest that shouldnt be allowed

what right do protestors have to physically assualy people or destroy property because they dont agree with what they represent..how is that any better than having rights taken away from you by the govt.

on one hand you will get smashed over the head by a fascist policeman or in the other instance have your trousers set on fire by a smelly man with a dog on a string and a hemp belt

they are doing exactly what they profess to be against......

buffoons the lot of them
 
i'm possibly going (not as a protestor)

I work on the edge of the city and my company has been named as one to picket by a few of the groups.

should be fun... we've got half a dozen ex rugby players and some guy that boxes in his spare time

bring it on.
 
Rich_L said:
Working right outside Liverpool St should be quite entertaining watching it all :p
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Me too.. was interesting about 9 years ago, whenever. Walking to the station under a roof of police shields. What was interesting about that day, was it was an anti-capitalist protest but I saw at least a dozen of them collecting their winning from a nearby bookies, which just goes to show, there is hypocriticalness in all of us.


It's only people themselves that can make a big change to the climate, not the politicians. Sure, they can implement targets, objectives and fund various projects but at the end of the day, it really depends on people’s ability to change their habits and sacrifice their lifestyle, which in all honesty, isn’t really going to change.
 
mattheman said:
It's not about what you say its about democracy, if you can't see it then you've been brain washed. One day you'll wake up and a number will be stamped, you'll look back at the days when you had a chance to chance things.
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That's funny, because I believe the majority of protestors have been brainwashed by the sort of rubbish that is printed on leaflets being handed out around Uni every day. The sort of people that take offense to me politely declining to accept their propoganda.
 
Global Warming is a natural process.

All the fuss is being kicked up by the Government to get people to help develop another source of fuel because they have misused the natural resources.


EDIT: Dear God! That looks like a magik post. :(
 
Tis pretty pathetic tbh... a bunch of people who've generally failed at life coming out to vent their general frustrations by smashing up McDonalds and starting fights with the police.

I don't think I'll be attending as I work for a living however it will probably disrupt my commute as I happen to work in the area some of the great unwashed will be targeting.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
What was interesting about that day, was it was an anti-capitalist protest but I saw at least a dozen of them collecting their winning from a nearby bookies, which just goes to show, there is hypocriticalness in all of us.
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You've got me curious, I wonder what they were betting on. Whether London would be disrupted that day?

I won't be at the protests, mainly because I'll be several hundred miles away at the time and won't be taking the time off to trek down to London for a cause I'm not even sure is worthwhile.
 
dowie said:
Tis pretty pathetic tbh... a bunch of people who've generally failed at life coming out to vent their general frustrations by smashing up McDonalds and starting fights with the police.
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My feeling is it'll be one or the other extreme. A broadly peaceful day with a few arrests of idiots (which would do the protestors great credit, they can bring the city to a halt by merely turning up in large numbers and having a snooze in the sun outside the LSE - which would be the mature way to make their point).

Or it'll be a proper riot.

I don't much care which, we've stocked the office kitchen with Pizza just in case though. But a riot will do the protestors no favors publicity wise...
 
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