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Every year, the 5,000 or so richest people in Britain should hold a march reminding everyone how great money is. Richard Branson should lead the procession which will work it's way through London forcing Big Macs down people's throats while bikini-clad, diamond encrusted women hand out free money and
share certificates in fossil fuel companies. It should culminate with speeches championing capitalism, given by world leaders of the past who have found out first hand that Communism is inherently flawed.
Sydney Morning Herald report on May 1st
http://www.smh.com..../1019441384093.html
"Police are abusing horses!" screamed a protester as his comrades scattered fizzing red fireworks and scores of marbles in front of ten charging mounted police. [angel, May 01 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Treatment of May Day protestors in London last year
http://www.guardian...7369,487931,00.html
Held for up to 8 hours; women forced to urinate in public streets. [pottedstu, May 01 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Italian anti-capitalist protests
http://www.infoshop.org/news6/genoa.html
Or we could just shoot the Queen. [pottedstu, May 01 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Defensive May Day Shopkeeper
http://myweb.tiscal...alfe/windowsign.jpg
Traitor to the cause, I say! [bartkusa, May 02 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Shouldn't it be a motorized parade, rather than a march? Clog up the streets with your gas-guzzlers? |
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I'm quite certain they'd have more profitable things to do with their time. |
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This is about defending a way of life, man. |
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Yay, let's make the Queen and the Duke of Westminster march through the streets of London, and have the police imprison them for 8 hours without any access to toilets, and then beat them up. Croissant! |
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Got any backup for that implication, [pottedstu]? |
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Good lord! It appears that brewmaster and I are of the same mind. I have just returned from George Square (Glasgow) where about 1000 badly dressed lefties are whooping it up in a noisy and pointless manner. For next year, I'm going to walk about the square anticlockwise (for they move clockwise, the fools!) sporting a "Yay! Capitalism!" T-shirt and waving a banner that reads "I love shopping too much to care about poor people." I'll take them all on. |
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Incidentally, the longest the police can detain you without access to a lawyer is 6 hours, during which time they are entitled to interview you. They don't do this because any evidence gathered in this manner will be subject to a human rights challenge. |
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they were not detained as such but not allowed to leave the area for several hours, no food, no amenities. tourists and children got caught up in the demo. I believe they are resorting to court action for it as we speak. doubt if any innocents got beaten up though, pot. |
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I am just about to leave work in Covent Garden: no violence in the streets yet but there is still time. I noticed that the tattoo and piercings shop near my work is suspiciously closed too so I may have to loot it as I pass. Fair enough I say. |
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Aha, thank you po. I see. Well, that action could be challengeable as an infringement of (a) the right to liberty and/or (b) right not to be subjected to degrading/humiliating treatment and/or (c) right to privacy. However, any such action is a waste of time as the courts will say "the interference with the rights of the protestors was a proportionate and justifiable infringment, having regard to the requirements of public policy." Translation: "Beat it, scumbags." |
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not so sure calum - watch this space. |
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<flame war ignition> Everyone below the top ten percent in net worth that calls himself or herself a capitalist is fooling himself or herself </flame war ignition> |
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Below the top 10% net worth of what scope? |
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Probably, then. In fact, everyone here at the HB probably qualifies as being in the top 10% (globally). |
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I'm going to fall off my chair if you mke me laugh any harder Brewmaster. |
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I think you should have another parade for the consumption and subjigation of other cultures.
it could involve marching through various historical locations and slapping price tags on national monuments. |
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...And as the proletariat rise up against their common enemy, they shall be reminded that their common enemy provides them with food, shelter, technology, modern health-care, shampoo AND conditioner (IN THE SAME BOTTLE!!!!!) and Cliff Richard. |
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The proletariat will then realise it is in their best interests to be sumbissive to their superior masters, and will once again take their rightful place at the very bottom of the dung heap we call society. |
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Who could trust a class of people who take it upon themselves to vote on 'stars in their eyes'? |
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-These were the original notes Marx made in Das Kapital, but were subsequently removed by somebody who wished to remove them. |
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Matthew Kelly, I'd guess. |
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i would respect the protest/marches if they actually had a consolidated purpose. but they dont. they just say small bits are bad, without having a solution.
i think that we should fight them by trivialising it all. next year im going march for "more peas with steak, but less with porK". what are you guys going to do?
though actually listening to some of the protestors last night on the news, can only imagine most of them are already doing this & are ripping the piss... |
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Fewer peas with pork, you plebian |
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If the peas are mushy, then "less" is correct. |
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I beg to differ. In fact, properly one would say "Less pea-mush with pork" or "Fewer mushy peas with pork." |
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I say people should just leave mushy peas alone. And yes, of course I was talking about Matthew Kelly. I hate that bastard. |
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sounds like we already have a split in the peas pleas please campaign. it really will be anarchy on the streets next year... |
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The wheels of the capitalist machine have forever been oiled with the mushy peas of the workers. |
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ohhhh. I have to admit I have used the original form of that statement in all seriousness once. it was received rapturously. Given the audience (Women's NUS), that wasn't difficult. |
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During the march the pro-capitalist marches could assemble around Karl Marx's grave, daub it with grafitti (I recommend, "you dialectic pseudo-anarcho-syndicalistic twerp") and give it a turf mohawk. |
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Don't we already have a kind of similar Annual Commercialism Pageant? Happens every year, centred around the 25th of December. I forget what it's called... |
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Or I suppose you could argue that we have a Capitalism March every weekday, from about eight in the morning until nine o'clock. But it's forced by Capitalism rather than being a celebration of it. |
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Because non-capitalists don't have to work? |
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we did a mock pro-capitalist march in Manchester a couple of years ago. It was Manchester's 'biggest day', being the climax of the Commonwealth Games and full of tourists.
you can see pictures of it in the street art archive of our site...
www.nato.uk.net |
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If you were going to do a pro-capitalisim march you'd have to include the cheap computers, telephones, pakaged food, clothing provided to us by the competition strong capitalisim system. |
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Anyways, when I think of rich british people I think of dukes and dutchesses who's money has very little to do with capitalisim and more to do with inheritance. This would work better in Canada or the States. |
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Oh barf barf BARF BARF BARF! BARF!! |
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