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Date: 21 November 2003 12:26:46
I got up at 6.30 and left the house at 7 to get on the coach by 8. then i sat in a coach for 4 or 5 hours, stood in a very packed square for 1 hour, marched for about 2 hours, gave up attempting to get into trafalgar square for the rally and went to get some food and find the coach. then it was back on the coach for another 4 hours.
So, in view of all the time i spent with people shouting and even being silent WHY THE HELL DID NO ONE MENTION THE FACT THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE DYING IN TURKEY? Yes, i am rather upset about this. I am passionately anti-war, have been for a long time but if there are people dying in a terrorist attack aimed at my country then i can think of many places where i would rather have been. Even doing such puny worthless things like saying a prayer or lighting a candle, joining a vigil, having a silence. But no, the word didn't get passed around the demo that people were dying .
I believe i have the right to protest, but there are some times when protests shouldn't happen. Yesterday after the bombings in turkey was (IMHO) one of them.