Riots in the UK?

[Cerrone]

@Cerrone

Have you lost all sense of rationality??? What those students did was inexcusable. Protests are a form of freedom of speech; rioting and destroying other people's property (as well as attacking others) is not.

So why is it that when however many million people peacefully demonstrate against something they achieve nothing, and when people do take more vigorous action that they're usually successful in getting what they want?

Protests in all forms have existed long before "freedom of speech" was even authorised. If people didnt agree with something their leader was doing they would attempt to be diplomatic, but if the leader refused to listen they would turn violent, wage a little war then be able to negotiate their terms with that leader who now realised that the people he was dealing with weren't some spineless rabble who'd disappear when they got bored, but a force who were capable of bringing him down. And that's the only thing that anybody in power respects.

Perhaps you didn't do any actual research before writing your post, but had you done so, you may have realised that the police sent to the event were unprepared for the riot, and as such, had to hold off the protestors on their own before riot police could turn up, and even then it wasn't enough. If they had tried to arrest people at the time, they would have (a) lost at least 2 officers who could have helped prevent more students from getting in, and (b) caused a wave of anger through the already angry crowd, possibly putting more lives at risk.

Don't accuse me of not doing research.. thats such a cliche lol.. yeah the cops were unprepared, and drafted in the army eventually (wow btw) but so what? They were fucking cowards, fuck them, and fuck the pussyassness of the more passive of the students who objected to the sit in.

It so absurd, the level the people here have reached it really is without a doubt like it could be a chapter from Brave New World, where the citizens displeased with the government start to condemn the citizens who stray from the governments legal guidelines of "peaceful protest". I'm sure at least a handful of old school activists from the 80's got a good laugh out of it when they realised the same thing.

Anyway thats my rant.. fuck it