Steve Monaghan musings

 The Right to Protest is Democratic. All protests cause disruption that's the point. To make you think. Why is Businesses Right to disrupt my life not a crime?  They open 7 days a week, 24 hours, blocking roads for emergency vehicles. Because YOU want Capitalism, the right to consume, to be paramount.  YES you who support the government restricting protest even more than previous governments. If You do not oppose you support by lack of action. You give your support by not expressing your opposition. They will use You and your silence/inaction.  This is how The Police already operate in a protest situation. You can be 'not acting' but arrested. Apparently they only do as government says uphold the law. However, they can act individually without any sanction (Check if you don't believe me). In fact they are more likely to be beyond prosecution regardless of their actions (just think about that). Until You have experience The Police in a protest situation You do not kno...

 Asking The Enemy to implement your preference is a benefit of a liberal democratic system. Electing someone/a Party that implements your preference is a benefit of a liberal democracy. A liberal democracy is popular across the human world.  However historically it is biased, whilst branding itself neutral (democratic). Some believe accountability creates non-bias. Voting, a choice, creates a non-bias. But whichever Party succeeds delivers predominantly for the economy. An economy that favours Owners, not Labour, because that's how a Capitalist economy works. Profit before People. To tinker with these twin systems does not change the core elements.  To help Poverty, The Planet, etc Minds need to change and be applied. The systems cannot deliver they are not designed to do so.  The messages, quotes, speeches have been part of history and the struggles to put the words into practice but The Enemy keeps succeeding in thwarting the road to a better world using the two sy...