Protesters storm British Parliament

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Sorry if this is a dupe.

Wow, assholes take action should be the headline

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/15/fox.protest/index.html

[mbperrin]

1. Gee, too bad they can't get whipped up like that against people

hunting in the Middle East!

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2. No doubt

When I first saw the headline I figured it was people protesting the hunt...not the banning of it...couldn't believe it when I realzied what it was about

[Yuna]

3. Are you full of it?

Maybe you didn't notice, but before the invasion there were MASSIVE protests in London. I hear this one is 10,000. The one for Iraq was over a million.

[HEyHEY]

6. He means asshole types

[legin]

4. Yup just saw film of this on the TV over here

You got to admire the fucking british.

The government invades another country and wacks a load of people, well there are demonstrations true, but when the government crosses that line in the sand and thinks about banning the hunting of some oversized rodent, well that's it, time to storm Parliment.

[Owlet]

8. Exshully, the fox belongs to the genus Canidae - they ain't rodents

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Canidae.html

[legin]

10. It's alright I was being polemical

;-)

We got a town one that comes across the road to our house, to be fed every night. I've seen one wandering around Brixton about 10 o'clock, while the pubs are still open, scavenging for food.

[Emboldened Chimp]

5. All this over fucking FOX HUNTING?

I'd hate to see how pissed they'd get if their gov't lied them into war...

[Snellius]

9. Fox hunting, fathers' custody Rights? I wish we had such concerns

I almost envy the Europeans for their quaint little problems. Not that fox hunting and parental rights aren't important, but here we are in a WAR against the EVIL EMPIRE, and they're dressing up like Batman climbing Buckingham Palace and goofing around Parliament in funny clothes.

[Briar]

7. Hunt foxes

kill Iraqis...there's a sort of consistency to the British right, when all's said and done.

But I'm just as disgusted with people like Peter Hain, Leader of the House, who calmly voted for an illegal war but threatened to resign if this bill was not introduced.

Nice one, Peter.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Celebrity tidbit: one protestor is Bryan Ferry's son

and they did a dry run on Tuesday, and weren't noticed!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3656524.stm

It has also emerged that one of those who burst into the Commons had contacted a BBC reporter before the protest to say they had staged a "dry run" on Tuesday.

It is understood campaigner Otis Ferry told the reporter how he and others planned to access the Commons but the information was not acted on by the BBC.

Mr Ferry, son of rock star Bryan Ferry, said the group planned to dress as builders and gain access using a letter purportedly from an MP.

[xchrom]

12. lock them all up

and throw away the key.
fox hunting is fucked up.

[HEyHEY]

13. But xchrom, it doesn't matter how barbaric or senseless or cruel it is!

It's tradition dammit! What's wrong with you!?