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Jsut to clarify, as it was my morbidly morose pessimism which started the debate; yeah, I doubt that anyone will get shot and hell, you are more likely to get run over by a bus or get anphylactic shock (zat right?) from eating peanuts than you are to be shot by a Bush bodyguard. And you wouldn't worry about eating peanuts at a bus stop, would you? So, if you can go to the protest and you feel yous should go to the protests, GO.
All I was saying is that there seemed to be a testing of the waters to see what the reaction would be, and a noticeable amount of plausible people mooting the possibility.
That said, those of you who suggested that a protestor getting shot should would play badly in the election; (1) Well, paint me fuckin' surprised; Paxman and Humphries must be terrified that someone with such political nous isn't after their jobs and (2) surely dead American soldiers in bodybags play a little worse than some dead European?
The hypocrisy of the comments on the protests is very enlightening, too; "We think it is great people are protesting; this is what we are trying to bring to the people of Iraq, the right to free speech and the right to protest. But we want diplomatic immunity if we shoot them."
From the revolutionary pages of the Daily Mail online, a protest update: veteran campaigner Lindis Percy arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace.
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