Protest and Assent

[binidj]

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).

Comments

But it's not British!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Unless you are being ironic, I think that you are one of only three people I know who support ID cards. The other two are furriners and used to living under a controlling system based upon the Napoleonic Code.

Re: But it's not British!

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm one of the only people I know who supports them too; but then I was one of the only people I knew who supported the war as well.

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.