Deflated Protest
A Links entry from Thursday, July 24, 2008Deflated Protest
A green protester super glued himself to Gordon Brown for some reason. Something about climate change not getting enough attention. Luckily protesters are seen as ritual now:
“He was just grinning about it. He didn’t seem to take me seriously.”… In an audio recording of the protest, the Prime Minister can be heard laughing as the stunt began… After the incident he was allowed to stay in Downing Street for 40 minutes, he said.
The problem could be his gimmicky pointless protest or it could be another sign that civil protest has lost its power.
Mark Elliot Cullen
mark@ivystreet.net
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