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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 09:19 AM
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Save the world! Smash up McDonalds!
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B Whale Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 10:23 AM
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1. I don't really get that picture. there's a
guy standing outside macdonalds on the march with a flag in his hand. It doesn't show he's been in macdonalds and it doesn't say what his political views are, or what's on the flag. Is the point your making, if you protest against something you can't eat at fast food franchises?

He's probably a trade unionist as they made up most of the march on saturday and as far as i'm aware are not anarchists or anti-capitalists, they defend workers rights within a capitalist system.

I wouldn't have expected to see a cliched criticism from the reactionary right wing that is trotted out at every protest here on DU, but oh well.
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D-Notice Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:02 PM
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2. You clearly
don't know Bulldog Albus...
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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:07 PM
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3. who he?
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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:08 PM
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4. I know, it's nothing really, I just found it amusing to
think of protesters tucking into their Big Macs before lobbing a brick or two though the window on the way out.

But then, I'm strange like that.
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B Whale Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:09 AM
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7. But protestors don't lob bricks through windows,
idiots do.

Protestors protest about things.

Democracy's like that, it isn't just crossing a box every 4 years so some self serving careerists can worm their way to the top with no values or ideas of their own. In fact i would suggest that democracy was moved forward in Britain in the 20th century more from outside parliament than from within.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 06:13 PM
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5. BD aka Albus ...
Edited on Tue Mar-31-09 06:43 PM by non sociopath skin
... is a Conservative and webmaster of a conservative message board

http://freebritannia.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=11836
http://freebritannia.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=11820
http://freebritannia.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=11810
http://freebritannia.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=11791

Why he choses to be a frequent poster on a board whose stated aims are anathema to him is a matter probably best taken up with him.

The Skin

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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 02:44 AM
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6. April Fools!
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B Whale Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:11 AM
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8. He sounds like a strange man
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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:28 AM
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9. a right weirdo!
in my very 'umble opinion
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:58 AM
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10. There are one or two people here...
who do trot out cliched criticisms from the reactionary right wing. There is a certain conservative British site, which always seems to have at least one member posting here too. Such is life.
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