Can Peaceful Protest get results?

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Following on from all of today's incidents so far......

I thought Id put this up for discussion.

I'm curious to see what everyone else thinks on this subject.



So;

Can you get results from Peaceful Protest?

Or Is violence the only way to get attention?


It seems to me, that this whole 'Controlled' Protest sort defeats the whole point of protesting in the first place. Do politicians even listen/ pay attention if there is no threat to them?

On the news reports today, people have texted in saying "Violence never solves anything" & "you give everyone else a bad name", but I'm wondering if that's true.

Don't get me wrong...I don't condone the smashing of the windows, but if the police have complete control all the time, does that not give the Politicians the impression that there is nothing to worry about, and that the protest can be ignored?!


Your thoughts

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Wednesday 1st April 18:50

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Don said:

Spiritual_Beggar said:

Can you get results from Peaceful Protest?

No. It is almost completely without point.

Spiritual_Beggar said:

Or Is violence the only way to get attention?

No. Violence is how to dominate a situation and enforce your will upon an unhappy population. We do it with armies and the police. Don't do as we say? We fk you up: badly.

Rioters believe they are making a point. But all that's happening is that they are doing criminal damage and bringing down upon their heads the imminent violence of the State. They've been CCTV'd to death and will be found.

To get attention?

You go to a polling booth on polling day and put an X next to someone else's name.

Now THAT gets a politician's attention. Because votes mean a job, expenses, a nice lifestyle and a pleasant career. No votes = NEED A NEW JOB!

So get down there and DO IT!

You make good points Don. Post like these is what this thread is about!

So you vote at elections....but what if you can't wait for elections? What if things were getting so bad that you couldn't wait 6 months to a year!?

The way the police controlled the protest says to me there wasn't any point protesting! It comes across (to me) that even the protesters are push-overs, and that no matter how displeased they are with the situation, they are still going to take everything that comes.
If I was a politician and I saw a protest like the one today then I'd be inclined to say "fk 'em, we'll carry on doing what we want, and if they protest again....we'll just ship them to the same area and be done with them"!

Peaceful protest used to get results, but in more recent times Im struggling to see when a peaceful protest has got the intended result.