Student Power

[Profondo Rosso]

I tend to agree with hazzman here. It does get your attention in the media. The English stiff-upper-lip attitude that this "makes you look like a twat" and "mob does not rule" strikes me as odd. If it's genuinely a worthy political cause and not some EDL twats, I do think things like this, providing no one gets seriously injured make their point. Fair play to them for standing up for their case, I say.

 

[Cate Fox]

I tend to agree with hazzman here. It does get your attention in the media. The English stiff-upper-lip attitude that this "makes you look like a twat" and "mob does not rule" strikes me as odd. If it's genuinely a worthy political cause and not some EDL twats, I do think things like this, providing no one gets seriously injured make their point. Fair play to them for standing up for their case, I say.

I'd hardly say that I had an English stiff upper lip attitude; I just dont like their tactics. Education is free up to the age of 18, if you then decide you want to continue to learn, why shouldnt you pay towards it?

 

[Profondo Rosso]

I'd hardly say that I had an English stiff upper lip attitude; I just dont like their tactics. Education is free up to the age of 18, if you then decide you want to continue to learn, why shouldnt you pay towards it?

Who is saying they shouldn't pay towards it? :icon_conf

 

[Cate Fox]

Who is saying they shouldn't pay towards it? :icon_conf

Many students I have heard on the radio this week are saying that it should be free :icon_conf

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Many students I have heard on the radio this week are saying that it should be free :icon_conf

But that was not what the demonstrations were about at all, so it's a bizarre thing to bring up against the protesters in this case.

 

[Real Sharapova]

I tend to agree with hazzman here. It does get your attention in the media. The English stiff-upper-lip attitude that this "makes you look like a twat" and "mob does not rule" strikes me as odd. If it's genuinely a worthy political cause and not some EDL twats, I do think things like this, providing no one gets seriously injured make their point. Fair play to them for standing up for their case, I say.

So slightly less than " seriously " injured is OK? Not in my book I'm afraid. Bullying is bullying no matter who does it.

 

[Hazzman]

Many students I have heard on the radio this week are saying that it should be free :icon_conf

Tbf back when University was free it was more worthwhile. Less wishy-washy degrees and less universities. It was a honour back then, now it's almost a duty.

 

[Cate Fox]

But that was not what the demonstrations were about at all, so it's a bizarre thing to bring up against the protesters in this case.

The web page quoted in post one is about student fees and that was what my posts were based on.

 

[MKFox]

At least Cameron is in the right place to get tips on how to deal with student protests

:icon_bigg

 

[Profondo Rosso]

So slightly less than " seriously " injured is OK? Not in my book I'm afraid. Bullying is bullying no matter who does it.

So you think those protesters who protested about racial segregation in the south of America in the 1960s who broke a few windows were not okay because it was "bullying"?! You think the Suffragettes were not okay because they "bullied" the king and his horse?! :icon_conf

 

[RHYDAL]

So you think those protesters who protested about racial segregation in the south of America in the 1960s who broke a few windows were not okay because it was "bullying"?! You think the Suffragettes were not okay because they "bullied" the king and his horse?! :icon_conf

Yeah lets fly a few planes into buildings for free prescriptions, or blow up some horses in Hyde Park for pensioners travelcards.
Have a word.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Yeah lets fly a few planes into buildings for free prescriptions, or blow up some horses in Hyde Park for pensioners travelcards.
Have a word.

Surely, you have to have actually made such ludicrous statements in the first place for that to happen. :icon_lol:

 

[spionfox]

If it's genuinely a worthy political cause and not some EDL twats, I do think things like this, providing no one gets seriously injured make their point. Fair play to them for standing up for their case, I say.

Who decides on whether or not the cause is worthy?

Are some causes more worthy than others?

 

[RHYDAL]

Surely, you have to have actually made such ludicrous statements in the first place for that to happen. :icon_lol:

Terrorism is terrorism no matter on what scale.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Who decides on whether or not the cause is worthy?

Are some causes more worthy than others?

Of course some causes are more worthy than others. Any one with common sense can see that EDL isn't a worthy cause and campaigning against racial segregation is.

 

[Macky]

Let's all go mental and **** shit up! Fight the power!

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Terrorism is terrorism no matter on what scale.

What a horribly naive attitude. You really think stopping the king's horse winning a horse race, to help stop sexist segregation and laws is not okay and should not be done?

 

[spionfox]

Of course some causes are more worthy than others. Any one with common sense can see that EDL isn't a worthy cause and campaigning against racial segregation is.

Obviously.

But you haven't answered the first part of my question.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Obviously.

But you haven't answered the first part of my question.

I did. People with common sense. :icon_lol:

 

[spionfox]

What a horribly naive attitude. You really think stopping the king's horse winning a horse race, to help stop sexist segregation and laws is not okay and should not be done?

Throwing yourself under a horse and killing yourself is hardly what I would deem as terrorism.