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m00nsquirrel

October Lone Protest

Oct 19, 2006 20:14

Went lone protesting with alextiefling yesterday. Was a super evening, lots of humour and some seriousness too. Get this, one person I talked too had trouble getting her protest authorised. Initially it was banned, but she kicked up a fuss... so why was her protest almost quashed? Well, one of the words on her placard, "wasn't a real word"! She challenged the ( Read more... )

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friend_of_tofu October 20 2006, 12:04:49 UTC

Sorry I had to miss it but - wow! Bureaucratic idiocy or what?? Why should something not being a word invalidate a protest?

m00nsquirrel October 20 2006, 22:51:48 UTC

The mind indeed boggles. We have an arabic speaker at work, maybe I'll get them to write me a placard in arabic. Tho I spose the application has to be in english, probably I could include an arabic name which might confuse them :)

friend_of_tofu October 30 2006, 22:33:11 UTC

I don't see why it has to be English - that might not even be legal!

m00nsquirrel October 30 2006, 22:47:50 UTC

Yus, I wonder if they have non-english SOCPA forms... tis a bit unfair if they don't. Maybe that's part of their plan, to restrict the number of protests by only allowing english speaking protesters, heh!