On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:24:04 +0000, Martin Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>Or perhaps I should ask why would anyone be worried about Them knowing >where they are or where they've been? Let us suppose that, some day, in a fit of rage, you kick a cat. Many years later, British Waterways announces its intention to close the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. There is a protest, in which you take an active part, standing silently with a placard but also helping to provide press briefings blaming the government for underfunding BW. The following weekend, the News of the World has three-inch headlines "Cat-kicking beast leads canal protest". Naturally, the NotW won't have researched that for itself: it will have received an unattributable briefing from usually reliable sources. There may not be anything illegal about kicking a cat, but both you and the HNC campaign will be damaged, with attention distracted from the campaign to your vain attempts to defend yourself, given that CCTV images have somehow become available to the press. Later would-be protesters will be deterred. bjg
