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Are we losing our right to true free speech and peaceful protest?

Courtenay Rogers | 07.08.2008 15:24 | Climate Chaos

Are you in control ? Are you taking responsibility four your own life and future ?

Let me start by saying that i have never been to a protest or rally of any kind upto this point my soul contribution has been to improve how we use stuff around the house and to get an allotment and grow my own veg etc.

But i have a feeling that may change very soon. I like many others in this country have sat idly in my armchair making excuses as to why i can not involve myself in such events, but as of this last week i feel that is about to change with the political policing and media blackout surrounding the Climate Camp i am begining to feel more and more guilty that others are out there effectively fighting for the rights of “ my” children to have a future that doesn’t involve them having to breathe through gas masks and and eat mass produced genetically modified food, as i think of the future for us and our children, to me it appears bleak and the more i look into our basic rights of free speech and protest the more i realise were losing them fast, this flat out scares me, the idea that one day we may be no better off than the Chinese are now.

Now is the time that everybody needs to take responsibility for there own future and if you believe in nothing else , you all believe in the right to free speech and protest. So take control ! Take responsibilty for your own life, and if nothing else use your right to free speech and protest before you lose it.

My humble thanks and apologies to those whom do this on behalf of us all.

Courtenay Rogers

Comments

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  1. Do it now — A N Other
  2. go to climate camp - you'll love it! — Dave
  3. Ok, this may sound naff but.. — Flo
  4. do it do it do it — davina