A thread about protesters

Alan Harper's Tash said:
An interesting choice of defence. I’d pay to watch that trial!
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But, I got to the train station on time, bought a coffee and sandwich, and kept the Chancellor in taxes that were due. Isn’t that what the government wanted, like get rid of the vulnerable who cost us so much?

I Rest my case, your honour.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Some excellent news coming in, 9 of these lunatics are now
making sure they don't drop the soap in the showers for a few months...

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Whilst I support the right to peaceful and lawful protest, these people deserve no less and the attitudes from then in interviews whilst they were busy blocking roads was staggering.

They lost the public immediately and rightly so, they have suffered at the hands of the courts.
 
blueinsa said:
Whilst I support the right to peaceful and lawful protest, these people deserve no less and the attitudes from then in interviews whilst they were busy blocking roads was staggering.

They lost the public immediately and rightly so, they have suffered at the hands of the courts.
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Well, clearly not if you are keen to see peaceful protestors jailed. You can’t have it both ways,
 
BobKowalski said:
Well, clearly not if you are keen to see peaceful protestors jailed. You can’t have it both ways,
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It was the law breaking but that did for them.

It’s very easy to be both peaceful and law abiding whilst still making a legitimate protest.
 
blueinsa said:
It was the law breaking but that did for them.

It’s very easy to be both peaceful and law abiding whilst still making a legitimate protest.
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The injunction banned them from making a peaceful protest. They effectively criminalised peaceful protests.
 
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BobKowalski said:
The injunction banned them from making a peaceful protest. They effectively criminalised peaceful protests.
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It banned them from blocking roads and basically causing mayhem.

They could have stood on the pavement or marched and sent their message and garnered far more sympathy for their cause from the public but instead, they disobeyed a court injunction.

Message lost and now criminals and time inside to boot.
 
blueinsa said:
It was the law breaking but that did for them.

It’s very easy to be both peaceful and law abiding whilst still making a legitimate protest.
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They had the right to peacefully protest by the side of the road so why didn't they do that instead? Their right to protest hasn't been affected because you can prove that they could protest peacefully.

Maybe I should go and peacefully protest my hunger by pinching my tea from the chippy?

No-one will shed a tear that they've been jailed, especially not the people who today will get home to their family or get to work on time, or maybe they'll even get to see their dying loved ones last moments because some tit hasn't been able to glue themselves to the road.
 
"UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said every motorway and major A-road in the country is now covered by injunctions."

That’s along with the injunctions applying to persons unknown.

Hopefully this is challenged as being too broad a brush and thrown out in the courts.

Means the injunction covers protests at places like Oxford Street and outside the Palace of Westminster.
 
inbetween said:
They had the right to peacefully protest by the side of the road so why didn't they do that instead? Their right to protest hasn't been affected because you can prove that they could protest peacefully.

Maybe I should go and peacefully protest my hunger by pinching my tea from the chippy?

No-one will shed a tear that they've been jailed, especially not the people who today will get home to their family or get to work on time, or maybe they'll even get to see their dying loved ones last moments because some tit hasn't been able to glue themselves to the road.
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That would be theft which is a criminal offence.

Also, the number of people being held up on their way to see their dying loved ones is astonishing. I mean, what are the odds?
 
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