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Originally Posted by Carth
Scenario:
You stand watching as a scrote is breaking into your car with the probable intention of stealing it.
do you:
a) ring the police, wait 40 minutes for them to arrive, 2 days for them to find the car burnt out, and a letter from your insurance saying it's invalid now as you made no attempt to stop the theft.
b) smack his head into the roof of your car 5 times while he was resisting a 'citizens arrest'
c) ask him for permission to take his photo so the police can trace him and slap his wrist
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I must of missed the part where one of the individuals who assaulted a member of XR owned the train?
Pointless point... no comparison between the two scenarios.
Are you going to go and pull a truck driver from his cab and try and hit him because him and a convoy are staging a go slow protest on the motorway? Would you go and pull a farmer out of his tractor if him and a group of farmers staged a go slow on a dual carriageway?
Of course you wouldn't as you would probably get your head caved in by said truck driver or farmer....
I'm not justifying what XR did it was wrong, but the individuals who responded to them in the manner in which they did are just as bad, if not arguably worse.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Try telling that to the general public. By all means protest, disrupt Government departments etc but don't stop the general public getting to work. You do that at your peril.
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The vast majority of the British public would probably swear a bit and do some tutting. That's it....
Funny really when Nigel Farage got pelted with a milkshake there was hell on... A couple of climate protestors however get dragged of trains, get kicked. Have food and liquids thrown over them and that's OK?
Some people have a serious issue with double standards.....