This picture is from the 26th March protest in London. Does it remind you about the quotation from Cardinal Ratzinger that I posted a few days ago?
We seem to be left with a few options:
- Do nothing at all and ask people why they think it is worth doing anything. i.e. Just give in!
- Do something - like attending the protest as a lot of us did - i.e. Exercise our democratic right to protest!
- Sympathise with those who are indulging in a campaign against the likes of Vodafone and Top Shop. i.e. Conspire to commit a crime if only a thought-crime.
- Take action with them because the first two items on this list clearly make too little difference. i.e. Criminal activity albeit maybe for a just cause.
Now I personally feel my opinion to be right in the middle of this list, somewhere in between attending protests and supporting direct action. I don't like the idea of criminal damage being caused but I do recognise that even 4 to 500,000 people parading through London can simply be ignored by our barely-elected government. (It is still claimed by BBC to be only 'quarter of a million'. I'm pretty sure that is an under-estimate.)
There was something just slightly satisfying, even to law-abiding professional me to see this mess on the windows of De Beers in Picadilly. I have no idea of their tax status (although I think I could guess) but they are clearly associated with a certain part of our society. I would like them to be made to feel the outrage that I am feeling now.
"23 of our ministers are millionaires" I read yesterday. Snouts in the trough eh? If we 'little people' don't start to make our voices heard more clearly they will continue to get off scot-free.
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