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Dancing Harcore
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Great White North (no racist)
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You have the person who cares passionately about the issue, has done their research, has written to their MP, prints a newsletter, gathers signatures, petitions local parents, runs a website. Then you have the other 95% of the crowd who spend the whole time wearing jester hats, smoking weed and talking about how "the man" is keeping them down, even though "the man" is actually their dad and is paying for them to go to university. |
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Unreasonably Logical
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The Red Devils
Join Date: May 2008
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Whilst your point is valid, the same thing can be said about the marching protests. The masses of protesters in London didn't acheive anything either apart from making the youth of England look like classless brats who didn't deserve cheaper Uni fees. Though half those people in the protests wern't even students, just people there looking to cause some destruction for the sake of it but that's always going to happen with protests of that size. |
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Dancing Harcore
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Great White North (no racist)
Age: 36
Posts: 35,040
Rep Power: 194
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If you can bring a large scale campaign of letters to bear against parliament then the people elected to enact the will of the people realize that the will of the people points in a certain direction. It's far more effective to influence directly the people who are elected to represent you than it is to gather in an essentially arbitrary place with a few thousand banners bearing the logo of your local organisation of professional malcontents*. It's also less expensive. Taxpayer money does not go towards policing petitions. *Examples include the Socialist Worker Party in the UK (there's no such thing as a socialist worker!) or in Canada there's OCAP. |
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