As the aloof spectacular representatives of the peoples' interests cheered the announcement of greater investment in Scotland by arms pimps BAe systems, and MSPs screamed blue murder at "unpatriotic" striking fire fighters damaging the war effort, the tranquil farce of pseudo-debate was breached by voices from the gallery. Lackey Jack McConnell was denigrated by a group of onlookers, violated by their having to abide purely spectacular in the proceedings and desperate to be heard above the din of silence. The clarion call of the people was to heard by the group, who brandished banners declaring opposition to war in genocide riven Iraq and the slogans of their fallen fellow democrats of the 1820 radical uprising.

As the wolves and foxes of the galimaufry below, compeared to discuss the partition of the wealthy's pelf, laughed at their unmasking , at the deaths of 500 thousand Iraqi children which their obfuscative practices have promulgated, at the three hundred years of colonial subjugation (still continuing) that the scottish people have suffered, at the anger and vitriol that their ivory tower, pauchlin mentality has generated, those who sought to genuinely parley were ushered from the gallery to allow the media charade to continue uninfringed by any aspect of reality.

Later when the polis were finished quizzing the five, they went home, to live their lives as everyone else. Isn't it time people take back the control their own lives? If five can hold up the mock-democratic facade of separated power's sham representatives, when they participate in meaningful actions, what can 500 do?