G20 Protests (Friday)

Franny Wentzel: 2nd Jul 2010 - 06:13 GMT

This somehow amuses me...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkwazCJG0vc

Franny Wentzel: 3rd Jul 2010 - 01:46 GMT

I find the theater of the whole thing amusing - a bunch of neo-hippies basically dare the cops to do come after them and when the cops make a move they run like the French army facing a Daisy air rifle. In the end the cops are still standing in formation while the mob hurls insults at them.

As for 'serfs' facing 'soldiers of the realm'? Really? A bunch of college dilettantes is more like it. Try standing up to a regime that has no qualms about 'disappearing' you like the electionprotesters in Iran did and maybe we can talk about 'serfs' and 'soldiers of the realm'.

Patrick: 8th Jul 2010 - 03:50 GMT

Yup. But if you believe some of the hype around here, these folks are freedom fighters standing up against an oppressive "police state".

Anna: 28th Feb 2013 - 12:38 GMT

That's actually a rlaley nice talk. It made me remember that movie, Gattacca (which was an excellent movie I might add), picturing a society which had everything predetermined by our genes and how one person managed to overcome that. Anyway, back to the point I was trying to make Yea While our genes are not our fate, they do give us advantages. I guess it's like poker starting off with a pair of aces. You might end up losing to someone who had low cards in the beginning, but that is unlikely (I know that was deep :p )