Kamal said:
tombi123 said:
Kasz216 said:
Yeah. I saw they attacked the Prince. They know he doesn't set tuition fees right?
It feels like some people in europe just like a good riot.
You know what happens when tuition fees and stuff like that happens in the US? A walkout. Everyone in the school just leaves the school in protest and does something else... or at best holds up a few signs and walks away.
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And how did that work out for you?
And we did have walkouts, sit-ins and a march. Most of the volient ones probably weren't student anyway, just young thugs needing an excuse to break stuff. You almost seem proud your people don't protest against your government...
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Actually protesting yesterday, thus having first hand experience. Everything was well and dandy until the fucking police started kettling us in (This is after stampede charge from the horses) with no access to toilet and food, I think people will start to get freaking unsettled. I had a riot shield rammed to my face as I couldn't stop the momentum of 1000 people pushing the opposite way, the way pretty trigger happy with their batons. I condemn the acts of violets but under those conditions I understood the reasons.
Too bad there was no footage of the stripping pink storm-trooper >.<
Arrival time: 2pm
Got home: 1am
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I think a lot of people need to re-look at the news footage of what happened yesterday. What started as some minor acts of thuggery escalated into mob violence due to police over-reaction. What could have been a mostly peaceful protest descended into complete anarchy. When I was watching it on BBC News 24 there was footage of riot police bashing students with batons when they were already on the ground.
It's a shame that all people see on the news is the violence because there have been many peaceful protests, sit-ins and walkouts over the last few weeks.
And they did show the pink stripping storm trooper on TV. I remember thinking "WTF?!" :P
