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Nov. 12th, 2003 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanSo.. it seems there is a good chance that central London will be shut down and protests will be heavily policed and limited when Dubya comes to stay next week.
Now, part of me is saying sage things about serious curtailment of civil liberties, the right of free assembly and the rest. And those are indeed things in which I believe, very deeply.
But the far louder voice is the one that says that if that fucker makes my working day any more difficult than it is already while he's here, I shan't be responsible for my actions.
Does that make me a bad person?
Now, part of me is saying sage things about serious curtailment of civil liberties, the right of free assembly and the rest. And those are indeed things in which I believe, very deeply.
But the far louder voice is the one that says that if that fucker makes my working day any more difficult than it is already while he's here, I shan't be responsible for my actions.
Does that make me a bad person?
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Date: 2003-11-12 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-12 04:22 am (UTC)Or, at the very least, I'm worse. During the wave of anti-war protests in March, I became very surly that masses of peacemongers were keeping me from my veryexpensivehairsalon appointment.
But I gave up on a soul awhile back. I justify it by saying that there is no political opinion with which I can reasonably agree, but, really, it's just an excuse to keep my head in the sand and my concerns totally self-involved.
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Date: 2003-11-12 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-12 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-12 08:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-12 11:13 am (UTC)BTW, did you get that phone number yet?
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Date: 2003-11-13 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-13 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-13 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-13 05:00 am (UTC)BTW, are you around in London on the w/e of the 6th December? I'm coming down, so beers/Jamesons may be in order.
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Date: 2003-11-13 07:07 am (UTC)I don't think I have any plans for that weekend.
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Date: 2003-11-16 01:15 pm (UTC)i'll bite...
Date: 2003-11-27 05:25 am (UTC)i had to respond to this post, b/c it made me chuckle.
why blame the actions of the protesters' on dubya?
why not on the queen who invited him here?
better yet, why not on the protesters themselves?
interesting notion of responsibility. ;)
Re: i'll bite...
Date: 2003-11-27 10:28 am (UTC)I think there is a general right to protest, whether or not I agree with the protest: I'm on record as being not-unopposed to the war (shortly I think that removing the regime was a desirable aim in and of itself but that the stated reasons were rubbish and it could have been far better planned and executed). But my main irritation was the increased security the visit caused, and the consequent disruption, which had little to do with the protests.
The post was intended to be taken slightly tongue in cheek in any event.
Re: i'll bite...
Date: 2003-11-27 04:52 pm (UTC)all taken.
:)
someone in my program said there were more people on security here than troops in iraq - although i don't know if i should believe that. (do you know if that's true?)
i guess i get defensive re. bush.
i'm ashamed to admit it, but i AM a dubya-sympathizer. i just don't understand why there's so much animosty against him. but then again, i don't keep up to date on current events. although, when you press most ppl for an explanation as to why he is so "stupid" or why his is the "#1 terrorist" you never get an objective, reasonable answer back - just more name calling or something, and that kind of intense emotionalism always kind of throws me.
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:52 am (UTC)As for the numbers of security, it sounds apocryphal to me, but it could be true, I suppose.