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Geddi · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Protest is not just good for making a noise or getting your point noticed. Protest is an excellent way of retaining some peace of mind and sanity. If you think you are to small to make a difference, spend the night with a mosquito.

Even if you are a minority of one, right is right.

Protest is essential and getting more so with each passing year. Peter Dolman is bang on when he says that petitions are not about to change anything. They will, but ONLY with a backup plan.

Remember the year 2000? Recall the blockades outside oil refineries? The government changed it's mind then! 500,000 people, well organised and strategically well placed brought this country to a standstill.

There are many issues we would be completely ignorant about, except for protesters who sometimes put there lives on hold and on the line top make a stand and make a point.

What would you come and protest about? Your house being demolished without notice? The local hospital closing? The Wiltshire police force being privatised? What?

All of the above are feasible and perhaps even likely within your lifetime. Make a stance and be counted.

First they came for the communists, but I was not a communist so I said nothing.
Next they came for the trade unionists, but as I was not in a trade union, I said nothing.
After that they came for the Jews. I was not a jew so I did not speak out.
When they came for me there was no one left to speak out.

- Pastor Niemoller

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