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Perhaps the ‘do gooders’ have better ideas and I’m sure The News readers will be interested if this segment of society have ever suffered the above epidemic of crime.
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In a later speech he appeared to boast that it was only he who had taken this action. This wasn't a protest against the government or regime change, it was about a public park.
Similar scenes have been witnessed in France (Republic) and, in the not so distant past, Hong Kong (Peoples’ Republic of China).
England was also a Republic (1649-1660), borne out of the English Civil Wars which resulted in much bloodshed but eventually returning to a constitutional monarchy.
The safety net we have now means neither a president, Parliament nor the monarch can take us to war on a single say so.
Mr Elliott Lee (‘Protester from Southsea held’ The News, 10 May) should firstly thank his lucky stars he was not removed and thrown into a cell with many others, probably unsanitary and with little food. Instead he was removed to a place of safety, clean and dry, and he was not brutalised.
The right to protest
- I absolutely agree. The right to disrupt, ruin the day for tens of thousands, along with the possible use of obnoxious liquids (throwing paint in plastic bottles), and the possible use of equipment to cause distress to animals resulting in a stampede and danger to the public – absolutely not. The hypocrisy in all this current wave of disruptions beggars belief.
Jon Cole Pembroke Park
B Nevill Gosport