Protest and Assent
Nov. 2nd, 2005 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It struck me recently, that only protest is ever really measured ... you never saw anyone demonstrating that the Gulf War was a good thing for example but the people saying it was a bad thing got loads of press because they were making a noise about it. This is fair enough, free speech is a good thing in my opinion but I've decided that the time has come to make a stand (however insignificant) to give assent and support to ideas which other people may be campaigning about.
If you feel as I do, please cut and paste this image ... if you could host it yourself that would be especially nice.

Now while I welcome discussion, I don't think that this is a good forum for it so if you want to discuss my politics at length I invite you to do so in person rather than here. Comments on the validity of positive assent however are welcomed (since I suspect that such a discussion will be less likely to be either as impassioned or as lengthy).
If you feel as I do, please cut and paste this image ... if you could host it yourself that would be especially nice.

Now while I welcome discussion, I don't think that this is a good forum for it so if you want to discuss my politics at length I invite you to do so in person rather than here. Comments on the validity of positive assent however are welcomed (since I suspect that such a discussion will be less likely to be either as impassioned or as lengthy).
But it's not British!
Date: 2005-11-02 11:46 am (UTC)Re: But it's not British!
Date: 2005-11-02 12:00 pm (UTC)Of course, in my peer group (ie. you lot) I'm well aware that my views may not be at all popular but I realised that freedom of speech must apply to me as well as those around me, otherwise it isn't freedom at all ... it's consent by silence.