From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If you want to regain lost rights, the only way to do it
>is to use the same process that was used to remove them
>The courts and the politicians. Anyone who thinks otherwise
>is fooling themselves. Futile gestures like handing medals
>in, doing silly things at the commonwealth games and
>attacking everyone who disagrees with them are pointless and
>will only weaken the case. Only well presented and structured
>debate, strongly made cases and relentless pressure will win
>the day.
Oh dear me No.
Well presented and structured debate will get you a
pat on the head and an A for effort but on it's own will
have bugger all effect without a good few futile gestures.
Most politicians will do what the party leaders tell them
most of the time and what the current party leaders tell
them is based very largely on focus groups which is about
as close to govenment by media as we've ever come.
Poll Tax! Ring any bells. Sod all would have happened
about that without countless demonstrations and possible
civil unrest. But thats an example of a govenment
seriously p---ing off the majority.
Minorities have to make a lot more noise and achieve a
much higher media profile for politicians to even notice
them, the smaller the minority the louder the noise required.
I seriously doubt that it would have been "Tea & Crumpets
with Tony" for Gerry Adams if the IRA hadn't been blowing
people up and shooting them for years. An extreme example
but it makes the point.
Brian T
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